Primary Care Residency Program
Welcome from the Program Director
Stephen J. Huot, M.D., PhD.
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Welcome to the website of the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program of the Yale-New Haven Medical Center. The primary mission of the Yale Residency Program in General Internal Medicine is to train houseofficers to become competent and independent internists who are committed to upholding the highest ethical and professional standards of medicine. We seek to train physicians from diverse backgrounds to become leaders and agents of change in whatever setting and niche of medicine they choose for their career. 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 or to pursue fellowship training, either in academic general medicine or any of the subspecialties of internal medicine. The central tenant of our residency program is that all physicians trained in internal medicine need to acquire a core knowledge and skill set that is applicable to their future career as either a generalist or subspecialist. A summary of the career paths of recent graduates is provided.
Our Program integrates educational resources of the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale with an urban teaching hospital (Yale-New Haven Hospital) a community teaching hospital (Waterbury Hospital) and a variety of ambulatory care sites. There is an extensive didactic curriculum at all training sites to compliment the clinical experiences. Exposure to the spectrum of internal medicine that is encountered at these various clinical training sites contributes to the rich learning experiences of the houseofficers. As you will read in the ambulatory component of this brochure, residents work in community-based general internal medicine practices, urban health centers, subspecialty hospital-based and community-based practices and their own weekly continuity practice. Houseofficers have through all these experiences at the University and Community training sites, the opportunity to work with physician role models whose careers span the spectrum of possibilities in medicine. We consider this exposure to a diverse group of mentors to be an important opportunity for houseofficers to discover the niche of medicine that will provide greatest professional and personal satisfaction.
There are several specific goals for houseofficers training in the Yale Primary care Internal Medicine Residency Program that reflect the unique opportunities and resources of the Program. These include developing leadership skills, promoting patient-centered research, participating in activities to improve the health of our community, participating in research and curriculum development to advance graduate medical education nationally, developing effective teaching skills, and learning greater personal awareness through self-reflection, structured educational activities and informal daily interactions with colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
Two training programs are offered; a categorical 3 year Internal Medicine Residency that leads to eligibility for the American Board of Internal Medicine Certifying exam, and a preliminary 1-year Internal Medicine Residency that prepares residents for subsequent training in other specialties. Fourteen positions are offered in the categorical program and 6 are offered in the preliminary program. We welcome your inquiries and interest in our program.