Internal Medicine Residency Program


The residency program is a fully accredited three year program with a total of 24 positions.
 
Our goal is to train residents in a team oriented, supportive but competitive environment. The program provides the resources for residents to acquire the knowledge and skills to become internists prepared to enter practice as a hospitalist, primary care physician, academic internist or to pursue further training in subspecialty medicine.
 
The residency program places strong emphasis on academic medicine through a varied and comprehensive educational program that includes:
  • A comprehensive curriculum
  • Simulated procedural training
  • Formal courses (e.g. ACLS, FCCS)
  • Grand Rounds
  • Morbidity and Mortality conference
  • Regular practice test-taking sessions
  • Shared specialty conferences.
Internal Medicine residents are expected to become proficient in advanced airway skills, vascular procedures including arterial and central venous catheterizations, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other internal medicine-based procedures.

While formal didactic conferences are considered critical to support clinical education, our program ensures that residents are able to apply their knowledge at the patient bedside to a population with diverse medical conditions. Our faculty dedicate more than twelve hours per week to academic teaching.

Our program typically has observed a very high pass rate on the ABIM certifying board exam.  Our graduating class of 2012 experienced a 100% pass rate.  While the program emphasizes careers in primary care and hospital-based medicine, some graduates choose subspecialty training. Over the past two years residents were selected into fellowships in Pulmonary and Critical Care, Infectious Disease, Nephrology, Oncology and Endocrinology at places that include Henry Ford Hospital, University of Texas, University of Oklahoma, Texas A & M, MD Anderson Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati.

Resident participation in research projects and scholarly activity is encouraged and supported. See our Research Link for a list of recent publications and academic activities.