Education

We have a wonderful patient population spanning all ages with pathologies that continue to drive advances in community service, clinical care and research. This offers a plethora of opportunities for career development specific to the resident’s professional and/or personal mission. We tailor our four-year curriculum to meet your individualized career goals in the context of ACGME requirements while being at the forefront of education innovation. This is the foundation of our training program. Our flexible scheduling allows for early career development and innovation through several special tracks including the Med-Peds Global Health, Hospital Medicine, Transition Medicine, and Urban Health tracks.

Our goal as a training program is to produce responsible, versatile, resilient, and happy physicians who are astute clinicians, innovative researchers, skilled educators and community leaders with a passion for clinical and evidence-based medicine, advocacy and health policy. We expect the graduates of our program to competently deliver care to children and adults and to have the tools to not only function in any health care system, but to embrace changing it for the better.

We love being doctors. There is nothing more special than being able to participate in the healing of a human being, no matter what stage of life he or she is in. The highlight of our UM/JMH Med-Peds program is the camaraderie between our residents, faculty, and staff. The collegial and supportive atmosphere fostered within the larger academic setting must be experienced firsthand. We welcome the opportunity to meet you in person so we can show off our program and introduce you to our faculty, residents and staff. Only then will you appreciate the excitement, enthusiasm, and pride we have for our unique and diverse Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Training Program.

Mission

To provide an accessible medical home to close the gap in quality primary care for adults with ID/DD.

Vision

To create the standard for innovative and inclusive care to enrich the quality of life of adults with ID/DD.

Our goal at PATH is to create a transitional care network of multidisciplinary providers for the intellectually disabled and developmentally disabled (ID/DD) population. This network provides a coordinated, interdisciplinary program leveraging the use of telehealth to move outside the traditional clinic, allowing for flexibility for the patients and the providers to access care through the network and collaborate in an interdisciplinary manner to provide comprehensive care.

The network involves an expanding list of providers who are comfortable with adults and adolescent patients with ID/DD and complex medical conditions, include medical and surgical subspecialists, social workers, dentists, counselors, and other allied health professionals.  We have a virtual web of connections that allow patients to graduate seamlessly from pediatric interdisciplinary care into a capable, interprofessional adult team that will manage their care into the future.