Sponsor: New York Medical College

Program Director
Margaret D. Smith, M.D.

Overview

St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan residents are exposed to a medically, socially, and demographically diverse patient population, thereby providing them with a superb experience ranging from ambulatory to critical care medicine. To meet the challenges of the changing health care environment, the residency program offers an enhanced primary care curriculum with significant clinical experiences in the ambulatory setting. In addition, the high degree of acuity of illness among the patients admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital thoroughly prepares residents to diagnose and manage virtually all problems relevant to the practice of general Internal Medicine. St. Vincent's has a well-founded reputation of educating medical residents resulting in a high rate of success in passing the American Board of Internal Medicine certifying examination. Moreover, the education and professional growth of our residents occur in a congenial academic environment where a commitment to excellence is coupled with humane care and respect for the dignity of all patients. Through its broad scope of subspecialty fellowship programs (cardiology, critical care medicine, endocrinology, gastroenterology, general Internal Medicine, geriatric medicine, and hematology/oncology, infectious diseases, nephrology, pulmonary/critical care), St. Vincent's offers superb subspecialty training opportunities to graduates of its residency program in Internal Medicine.

The Categorical IM program is a traditional three-year curriculum leading to eligibility for certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

The Preliminary IM program offers a one-year curriculum with emphasis on Internal Medicine and its subspecialties, as a preparation for other specialties or for general Internal Medicine.  Successful completion of this year fulfills one year of the three necessary for eligibility for certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

The Internal Medicine residency program at SVCMC St. Vincents Manhattan is structured to provide an experience and environment that fosters the development of future leaders in the field. This manual describes in detail the specific goals, objectives and responsibilities for residents in the categorical programs and will guide the residents in their educational endeavors.

The Core Curriculum is a supplement to patient care and is by no means comprehensive or all-inclusive, but is a guide to our specific learning experience.  Although residents will receive extensive instruction by the faculty, they must aggressively seek medical knowledge by active participation in all aspects of the program. Development of the habit of additional avid reading is key in order to become 'self-teachers' and effective physicians in the ever evolving medical profession of the 21^st century.

In the words of Sir William Osler, 'the education in which he or she is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course for which the work of a few years under teachers is but preparation.'

Please click here to download the full version of our Internal Medicine Residency Core Curriculum.

Chairman Dennis M. Greenbaum, M.D.

Program Director Margaret D. Smith, M.D.