so you're telling me some programs like *cough cough wash u* kill their prelims with inpatient blocks but have their categorials on x+y schedules? | A prelim IM intern at Wash U isn't going to be treated any differently than a categorical IM intern at Wash U in terms of service months, for the most part. Categorical IMs have a 4 + 2 because of their outpatient IM clinics that prelims don't have. < so what does that mean for prelims for those 2 weeks? because it looks like the schedule for prelims is almost exclusively inpatient.