Ranking internal medicine residency programs 2010

And they lead inpatient teams on the Bigelow-Flex Service and learn the core principles of leadership. Senior residents spend an increasing amount of time teaching junior residents, interns, and medical students. The PGY-3 year focuses on hospital-wide leadership roles, including the intensive care and oncology units. Seniors can pursue research opportunities during elective time. Primary care residents select a location on the Mass General campus or at a community health center for their primary care continuity practice.

And in addition to the Internal Medicine Residency core curriculum, primary care residents have enhanced learning opportunities in ambulatory medicine. And now, it provides three years of comprehensive training in general internal medicine, with a wide variety of experiences in acute and ambulatory medicine.

The Johns Hopkins Medical hospital complex in East Baltimore comprises more than a dozen centers with different clinical services. The overall structure alternates six weeks of inpatient rotations and two weeks of outpatient rotations. During the PGY-1 year, interns develop superior clinical skills. Junior residents explore subspecialty medicine, investigation, and clinical leadership in the PGY-2 year.

And the PGY-3 year leads senior residents to become leaders and educators. The primary care program provides a more extensive and varied outpatient continuity experience and primary care curriculum. The PGY-1 experience is identical for each track, and all residents work on inpatient rotations and in their continuity clinic.

Then, while categorical residents have considerable elective time tailored to their career objectives, primary care residents spend much of their PGY-2 and PGY-3 years in ambulatory practice. If you do not accept these Terms, do not purchase the CiM Material nor use the services provided through the Site.

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Likewise, 20 other internal medicine programs each received between to nominations. In a separate analysis that looked at the survey responses of general internists as a subgroup—as opposed to subspecialists who completed an internal medicine residency—UCSF received the most nominations of any program.

Hollander noted that the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education plans to introduce a new accreditation system that would, in theory, make the comparison of residency program metrics more transparent. Doximity , an online social network for physicians, conducted the survey through a combination of web notifications and emails sent to 18, members.

As you start to envision what your rank list might look like, here are some things to keep in mind:. Do not list programs that you absolutely do not want to consider. By placing a program on your rank list, you are indicating that you are willing to go there if matched.

If a particular program is not acceptable to you, you should not list it as this creates the possibility that you might match there. Here are some important things to consider when thinking about creating your rank list: It is extremely important to understand how the Match works. Much of the anxiety surrounding the Match lies in the mystery surrounding the matching algorithm. The National Residency Matching Program NRMP has a detailed explanation of the process , including examples of how the structure of the rank list may affect Match outcomes.

The Match process is extremely fair and tends to favor applicants vs.