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Internal Medicine Resident Program
Department of Internal Medicine
MSC10-5550
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
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Telephone: (505) 272-6331
Internal Medicine Residency Program
Your Training
The Internal Medicine residency program offers flexibility to residents, including the opportunity to take a leave-of-absence for up to two rotations during the three-year program. The rotations must be completed later, thus extending the resident’s training time; however, this does not interfere with eligibility for taking Board exams in the completion year. In addition, the program is family-friendly, offering flexibility in scheduling for maternity or paternity leave or for family emergencies.
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Required and Elective Rotations
Patient Population
New Mexico offers unique opportunities for the medical training of residents interested in providing health care to ethnically diverse, rural, and economically marginal populations. One third of the state’s population is below the poverty line. With its location on the southwestern border of the United States, New Mexico provides exposure to the health problems of urban, interurban, rural, and economically under-developed communities. The state enjoys a tri-cultural heritage – Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo. This multiculturalism gives residents the opportunity to work with the traditional healing methods of both the Native American and Hispanic communities. University Hospital serves as the referral system for the Native American health care network within the state. Patients from Southern Colorado, Eastern Arizona, West Texas and Mexico also come to UNM for specialty care.
Training Sites
Our primary teaching sites in Albuquerque are University Hospital and the Albuquerque VA Hospital. Second and third year residents have the opportunity to do rotations and electives at several other teaching sites, including St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe and San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington. Our teaching sites all offer a different perspective in the practice of medicine.
University Hospital (UNMH)
UNMH recently has been cited as one of the top performing hospitals in the United States and ranked among the top ten academic medical centers in the nation for primary care.
- 618 bed tertiary care facility
- Principal provider of primary care for most of its patients
- Most inpatients are admitted from the emergency room, urgent care clinic, or other clinics
- Broad referral area including eastern Arizona, southern Colorado, and west Texas
- Diverse patient population
- 24 hour translator services
- Emergency Room treats approximately 80,000 patients a year
- Urgent care clinic sees approximately 20,000 patients a year
- Only Level 1 Trauma Center in the state
- Named in the nation's 100 Most Wired hospitals
University Hospital recently underwent an expansion with the opening of the Barbara and Bill Richardson Pavilion which houses new intensive care units as well as the Children's Hospital. Other special care units and medical programs include:
- Cancer Research and Treatment Center
- Lifeguard Air Emergency Services
- Senior Health Center
- 24 Hour Heart Cath Lab and Cardiothoracic surgery
- Kidney transplantation
- Regional Burn Center
- Clinical Research Center
- Sleep Disorders Center
Albuquerque VA Medical Center (VA)
- 404-bed facility
- Only VA hospital in New Mexico
- Serves as a referral institution for VA hospitals and clinics through parts of Texas, Colorado, and Arizona
- Broad geographic patient base with approximately 50% from outside Bernalillo County
- Majority of the patients are males representing the New Mexican tri-cultural backgrounds of Anglo, Hispanic, and Native American
- Cardiology services provide invasive cardiology services for a broad referral area
St. Vincent Hospital
- Located 55 miles north of Albuquerque in the scenic capital of New Mexico, Santa Fe
- The hospital has 260+ beds with over 250 staff physicians representing 22 medical specialties.
- Most popular electives include heme/onc, women's health, and alternative medicine.
- Housing in Santa Fe is provided free of charge.
- While in Santa Fe, take the opportunity to explore this area with its many art galleries, the Santa Fe Opera, skiing at the Santa Fe Ski Area, and great food.
San Juan Regional Medical Center
- The SJRMC is located in Farmington, NM in the NW corner of the state in the Four Corners area approximately 3 hours from Albuquerque.
- It offers the opportunity to practice primary and subspecialty medicine in a rural, small town setting.
- The hospital recently underwent an expansion to 230 beds
- Electives available include cardiology, heme/onc, renal, hospitalist, endocrinology, and others.
- Housing is provided if you choose to do a rotation here.
- The Four Corners area also offers a great launch pad to many outdoor adventures such as hiking Moab in Utah, photography in Monument Valley in Arizona, and skiing in Durango and Wolf Creek in Colorado.
Continuity Clinics
- General Medicine Clinic at UH: Provides care to many underserved patients, especially those with UNM care insurance (Bernalillo county residents without insurance).
- General Medicine Clinic at VA: Provides care to VA patients
- Satellite UNM Clinics: These include the Northeast Height Clinic, the 1209 Clinic and the Westside Clinic.
- Others: These include the First Choice Community Health clinic that provides care to uninsured patients. Also the Truman Clinic (HIV clinic), Geriatric clinic or the Women’s clinic can be chosen as a continuity clinic.