Yale Internal Medicine / Pediatrics Residency Training Program
Welcome from the Program Directors
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Welcome to the Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program of the Yale-New Haven Medical Center. The primary mission of the Yale Residency Program is to train houseofficers to become competent and independent physicians who are able to effectively care for patients across the age span. We seek to train physicians from diverse backgrounds to become leaders and agents of change in whatever setting of medicine they choose for their career. Our core internal medicine and pediatrics departments seek students who are committed to upholding the highest ethical and professional standards of medicine. Housestaff learn to provide compassionate, respectful, and evidence-based patient-centered care in a variety of academic and community settings. Through direct observation and feedback from faculty and peers, trainees learn self-evaluation to improve their own skills. Graduates are prepared to enter the practice of general internal medicine and/or pediatrics or to pursue fellowship training, either in academic general medicine or any of the subspecialties of internal medicine and pediatrics. Graduates are eligible for the Board Certifying exams in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.
Our Program integrates educational resources of the Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine with the rich clinical experiences of Yale-New Haven Hospital and Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. While these institutions serve as the primary clinical training sites, we also believe that it is important for residents to have solid grounding in medicine and pediatrics in community hospital settings. Therefore, in addition to rotations at the primary teaching hospitals in New Haven, residents also experience one month each year in a community hospital setting in both internal medicine and pediatrics. The internal medicine community hospital experience occurs at Waterbury Hospital, a primary teaching site of the internal medicine residency programs, and the community hospital pediatrics experience each year occurs at Bridgeport Hospital, a primary teaching site of the pediatrics residency program. In all cases, residents are supervised by Yale faculty.
The Yale Med-Peds program is integrated within both departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, yet also maintains a unique identity unto itself. This balance – a small, collegial program within two comprehensive departments – fosters a high quality, person-focused educational experience with a distinct energy.
Four residents are recruited each year. Residents typically rotate between Medicine and Pediatrics in 3 to 4 month cycles. Beginning in the second year, integrated med-peds ambulatory blocks are designed to meet the specific career goals of our residents and provide a broad and practical exposure to the practice of medicine and pediatrics.
A key feature of the Yale Med/Peds Program that we are particularly proud of is our combined Med-Peds continuity clinic located at the St. Mary’s Family Health Center in Waterbury, Connecticut. The Med/Peds clinic space was built expressly for our purpose. Our med-peds residents and faculty have built up the practice into a lively and popular primary care clinic. Residents typically maintain a weekly 1/2 day clinic experience throughout their four years of training. (Please see the ambulatory medicine section of this website for greater detail.)
There are several unique features to our curriculum of which we are particularly pleased. While our curriculum affords ours graduates board eligibility in both medicine and pediatrics, we seek also to meet the particular career interests of our residents through a variety of ambulatory blocks, electives, and research opportunities. An example of this is the “Fourth Year Ambulatory Super Block” which is a 3 month elective designed by the resident with guidance by a mentor to meet one’s particular goals. In the past, residents have pursued research projects in spirituality and depression, deepened an expertise in the care of patients with HIV, developed skills in the business management of private practice, revised clinic procedures in well child care and pursued many other projects. The International Health Elective opportunities offered at Yale through “Yale’s Johnson and Johnson International Health Scholarship Program” provides opportunity for each resident to work in an underserved area internationally at least once in either the PGY 3 and/or PGY 4 year. Medicine/Pediatrics trained physicians are particularly well suited for international health work and this is an interest of many of our residents.
We are confident that the training you will receive with our strong core departments and our Med/Peds integrated experiences will leave you very well prepared for the exciting career that you will embark upon following residency training.