The Internal Medicine Residency Program includes 10 key internal medicine faculty members and 30 key subspecialists. Faculty have voluntarily recertified in internal medicine and continue to see private patients, thus making them “real world” teachers. Faculty members enjoy interacting with residents one-on-one in outpatient clinics, inpatient service, and daily educational conferences.

Didactics include thrice-weekly morning reports; daily noon conferences; weekly board review sessions; and monthly grand rounds, morbidity & mortality conferences, and journal clubs. Morning reports emphasize patient presentation and work-up, as well as patient management. Noon conferences use a case-based format to cover important topics during the 18-month core curriculum. These regularly scheduled educational offerings are considered a priority over routine patient care activities.

The Internal Medicine Residency Program boasts a 92% passage rate on the ABIM certifying examination for the last three years. In addition to our strong didactics, we prepare residents for board certification by administering monthly subspecialty tests that are reviewed by subspecialists and discussed with residents. In addition, board review sessions are held 2 – 3 times per month.

At least 33% of your time will be spent in the ambulatory setting. At least one half-day a week will be in your medicine continuity clinic. All efforts are made to ensure that residents maintain the comprehensive medical care of their own cohort of patients. Because we believe medical education is maximized by seeing ambulatory patients, there are additional opportunities for these experiences during subspecialty rotations and other electives.

Our program is flexible and offers various electives in subspecialties oriented toward primary care. Electives such as cardiology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, and other medicine subspecialties provide experience in the inpatient and ambulatory settings. Other electives such as dermatology, urgent care, women's health, and rheumatology are primarily ambulatory/outpatient.

Mount Carmel serves a diverse patient population. Patients come from various socio-economic backgrounds and present with a variety of conditions/illnesses. Mount Carmel is an urban hospital that is the source of primary care for the local population. The medical center is also a regional referral center that receives complex and/or critically ill patients from area hospitals for specialty care. Residents will leave the program well-trained to deal with common and rare medical problems in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.

During all rotations, interns and residents have an appropriate amount of autonomy, which increases at higher levels. However, interns and residents also have sufficient supervision and support when necessary. Upon graduation, residents will feel confident performing procedures such as central venous catheters, lumbar punctures, endotracheal intubations, and others.

Faculty, residents, and staff agree that one of the perks of working at Mount Carmel is the friendly, relaxed atmosphere and the caring, approachable faculty. These factors make Mount Carmel an enjoyable place to work.

Approximately 2/3 of our graduates decide to go into private practice after residency. Mount Carmel has a team of specialists who monitor practice opportunities and assist residents in setting up and managing office practices. They will gladly help you get your career off to a great start.

Approximately 1/3 of our graduates have chosen to pursue competitive fellowship programs, including infectious diseases, rheumatology, gastroenterology, critical care, renal, anesthesia/critical care, and hematology/oncology at various institutions. Faculty members have worked closely with residents in order to assist them in obtaining these positions. After fellowship, many graduates have returned to Mount Carmel to serve as faculty members.