Greetings from the Program Director
Margaret D. Smith, MD, FACP, FACR

It is with great pride that I welcome you to the website of the Department of Medicine at St. Vincent's Manhattan located in the heart of Greenwich Village.

As an Academic Medical Center for New York Medical College, St. Vincent's provides the highest standard of medical education and graduate medical education to students and residents at all levels.  This mission is tightly coupled with our commitment to rendering safe, effective state-of-the-art patient care.

Here at St. Vincent's residents have the opportunity to evaluate and manage patients with an extraordinarily diverse range of medical problems.  Thus each trainee is afforded a unique, unparalleled experience guided and enhanced by our outstanding faculty. Our tradition includes awareness of special patient needs in multiple cultural and socioeconomic situations, and our location has resulted in our participation in crises such as the World Trade Center disasters.

St. Vincent's has been in the forefront of graduate medical education for many decades, and our former residents are successfully practicing, or in medical academic or research arenas in most parts of the globe. In addition to the traditional Categorical Internal Medicine track, we offer a Primary Care track, a Combined Medicine-Pediatrics track and a Preliminary Internal Medicine Track.  Transitional Year residency is also sponsored by the Department of Medicine.

Our ACGME Competency based curriculum is the foundation for all rotations.  The classic medical floor and intensive care unit experience is stressed at the PGY 1 level, with graduated responsibility, supervisory and leadership qualities enhanced in the PGY2 and 3 years.  Electives include not only the subspecialties of internal medicine, but research and non-medicine specialty rotations.  Each resident develops a personal portfolio, once again, based on the ACGME Competencies. 

Strong support is given at every level of training in a congenial manner appropriate to each individual's needs from the Program Director, the Chief residents and the resident's personal mentor.  Our graduates have the opportunity of interacting with the Subspecialty Sections, and many continue in fellowships at St. Vincent's after completing the core program.  All accredited internal medicine subspecialty fellowships are offered here with the exception of rheumatology.  Approximately one half of the graduates pursue a career in primary care.

St. Vincent's is rich in tradition yet in the forefront of the newest medical technologies.  All of this is combined with highly academic goals, achievements and an esprit de corps that permeates the entire program.

Our residency programs are ultimately aimed at molding physicians of the 21st century who are compassionate, well qualified, innovative and confident.