Primary Care Residency Program
Career Path of Graduates: 2001-2006
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Graduates of the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency pursue a wide range of professional opportunities ranging from clinical practice to academic medicine, policy and industry. Approximately 60% of program graduates pursue careers in general internal medicine and 40% pursue subspecialty training. Graduates are successful in obtaining subspecialty fellowships in the most competitive programs in all fields. Of those who seek careers in general internal medicine, roughly 50% seek an academic career and 50% enter general medical practice. General medicine academic opportunities include fellowship training in general internal medicine, the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Occupational Health and Geriatrics. Of those entering general medicine practice there is an approximately even split between office-based practice and Hospitalist careers.
Our residents receive guidance during career planning from the program directors as well as their assigned faculty advisors/mentors. We also have developed a website which provides comprehensive information on a range of career planning issues, including creating a CV/resume, interviewing, finding the right job or fellowship, and contract negotiation. Called "Beyond Residency", this site compiles existing helpful resources from professional organizations and journals as well as personal advice from Yale Internal Medicine Residency graduates who share their experiences and guidance for succeeding during the process. For our current residents who would like to access “Beyond Residency,” please log-in by accessing http://www.med.yale.edu/library/subjects/clinical.html and locating “Resources for Residents” and then clicking on “Beyond Residency.”
Program alumni unanimously considered themselves “as well prepared or better prepared” than their colleagues for the positions they had accepted. Listed below are the various practice sites, fellowships and other opportunities that recent graduates have pursued. Comments about their experiences in the Yale Residency Program follow the list of positions.
| General Internal Medicine | Subspecialty Fellowship Training |
| General Medicine Practice California Connecticut Georgia Idaho Illinois Massachusetts Louisiana Maine New Hampshire New Jersey New York Ohio Pennsylvania |
Allergy/Immunology National Jewish Center University of Florida University of Rochester Yale University |
| Hospitalists California Connecticut Massachusetts New Jersey New York North Carolina USA-Worldwide Physicians Washington D.C. |
Cardiology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston University Robert Wood Johnson – UMONT University of Alabama Yale University |
| General Medicine Fellowship Clinical Scholars Program Harvard Johns Hopkins University Michigan State University UCLA Yale University |
Endocrinology Columbia University Lahey Clinic – Massachusetts Oregon Health Sciences University Stanford University University of California, San Francisco Washington University Yale University |
| Geriatrics Johns Hopkins University Mount Sinai University University of Connecticut Center on Aging Yale University |
Hematology/Oncology Beth Israel / Deaconess British Columbia University Stanford University SUNY-Downstate University of California, San Francisco University of Washington Yale University |
| Occupational Medicine Yale University |
Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health Washington University Yale University |
| Clinician-Educator Connecticut New York Washington D.C. Yale Department of Medicine |
Nephrology Cornell Hospital Mass General Hospital Mount Sinai Hospital Universityof Pennsylvania Yale New Haven Hospital |
| Digestive Disease Emory University Jefferson Medical Center Norwalk Hospital Stanford University Medical Center University of Southern California Yale University |
Pulmonary/Critical Care Cleveland Clinic National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins University of Pennsylvania |
| Rheumatology Boston University Yale University |
Comments From Recent Graduates
“I feel that I had exposure to incredible role models. The ambulatory curriculum and outpatient experience in a private practice, the physical diagnosis rounds and resident reports were terrific.”
“Even as a hospitalist, the ambulatory medicine training was important, as it helps to distinguish what must be treated as an inpatient versus what can be treated as an outpatient.”
“I most appreciated the broad clinical training, accountability (e.g. morning report), variety of settings (tertiary care center and community hospital), and the program in evidence-based medicine.”
“Evidence Based Curriculum. The individualized attention and care from academic and practicing physicians was very helpful. Not having fellows at the community hospitals allowed for more independent work-ups and management.”
“I particularly enjoyed and now value the outpatient specialty rotations like Rheumatology, Pulmonary and Dermatology.”
“The Generalist aspect of my residency was vital to my training. It gave me broad views of Internal Medicine, excellent exposure to all kinds of patient problems. Now more than ever I think that doing the general medicine residency at Yale was one of the best decisions of my life.”
“Communication skills and effectiveness in an office setting was easy to acquire due to our ambulatory rotation. Our pre-clinic sessions with outpatient topics were wonderful and very useful; I at times refer back to certain articles.”
“The coordination of University and Community-based training with ambulatory training at physician's offices was ideal.”
“The friendship among housestaff and faculty was special to me. The Medicine and the Arts Program contributed to a stimulating and supportive environment.”
“Dynamic mentors, strong teaching, outpatient experiences and attendings that cared and wanted us to have an excellent education were important aspects of the Yale Program.”
“I valued all aspects: the hospital portion, the outpatient part, evidence based medicine, etc. The program trained us well.”