Residency Program for Internal Medicine

Each General Medical team consists of two interns (PGY-1) supervised by a PGY2- or a PGY-3 resident, a full-time attending physician, and two medical students. The team cares for an average of 16 patients. The intern provides the primary patient care and is given as much responsibility as she/he can assume. In general, the initial diagnostic and therapeutic decisions are made by the intern after discussion with the resident and /or faculty physician. It is the resident’s responsibility to supervise and guide the intern in patient care. The resident plays an important role in the teaching of interns and students.

There are over forty straight medical internship positions. Each intern has eleven months of primary patient care compromised of several months of General Medicine, one month of Emergency Room Medicine, one month in Intensive Care Medicine, two months of Ambulatory Medicine, one month of Neurology, one month for research to define, place and begin to work on a scholarly academic project to be completed and presented at the end of the residency, and a weekly outpatient continuity clinic. Three weeks of vacation are allotted annually.

The PGY-2 and 3 programs are considered as a unit. During this two-year period, the PGY-2 resident has a total of eight months of primary patient care and three months of electives. Primary patient care includes assignments to General Medicine, Intensive Care Unit, Emergency Room, and/or Critical Care Unit, and interdepartmental consultations. Electives include all medical subspecialties such as Radiology, Neurology, Dermatology, etc. The PGY-3 resident typically will be the team leader on a ward team for two months and will have five months in total of primary patient care and several months of electives. One month is spent on the Medical Consultation Service, Emergency Room, and continues rotations in the Medical Intensive Care Unit and Coronary Care Unit. One month of vacation is allotted annually.

Salary information may be obtained through the website: www.jmhmedicine.com/application-information

Departmental conference schedules include faculty rounds in general medicine and conferences with different subspecialty divisions. There are weekly Grand Rounds (clinical seminars on important current problems related to internal medicine), Intern’s Report, Resident’s Report, CPC/ Morbidity and Mortality Conference, Intern Lecture Series, Basic Science for the Clinician Series, and Noon Conferences.

The sub-specialty programs are supervised by full-time section chiefs and other full-time faculty. In addition to residents rotating through these programs, each has its own fellows. Each section offers options in clinical and research training with regularly scheduled conferences, journal clubs, ward consultations, clinics, and basic
investigations.

Requirements

• Outstanding medical school record
  
• Fluency in English
  
• Passing scores in the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Steps 1 and 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK) and Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS)
  
• Enrollment in the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). This service is available to foreign medical graduates through the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) 
  
• Enrollment in the National Resident Matching Program
  
• Recommendation from a faculty member that is well acquainted with the applicant’s work in home country
  
• Letter of recommendation from the dean of the applicant’s medical school
• Personal interview and recommendation, in writing, by one of our voluntary faculty in the applicant’s home country. The voluntary faculty list is provided by our program
  
• Commitment to return home, preferably with a role in medical education
  
• Submission of completed application packet by September 15 (for interview scheduling purposes).

• United States Medical Licensing Examinations (USMLE) and Electronic Residency ApplicationServices (ERAS): www.ecfmg.org
• National Resident Matching Program: www.aamc.org/nrmp
  
• The William J. Harrington Training Programs for Latin America and the Caribbean: www.jmhmedicine.com/harrington