Prepare to be a competitive and compassionate internist through our residencies in internal medicine, preventive medicine, or integrative medicine in residency.
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Our community of residents, faculty and staff are here to support you through the most exciting and challenging time of your life. We pride ourselves on creating a culture that replaces the typical hierarchy of medical education with a learning environment defined by mutual respect, intellectual curiosity, and resident teamwork, while preserving resident autonomy in clinical decision making. We welcome residents with diverse backgrounds from all over the world.
The Hospitalist Training Track is designed to provide residents interested in careers in hospital medicine and healthcare leadership with training and exposures to principles and topics within the specialty beyond the existing residency curriculum. The track focuses on residents' professional development through small group sessions, select clinical rotations, and close faculty mentorship.
The Primary Care Track was created in 2010 by a group of residents to provide robust training in ambulatory care and chronic disease management. Residents from each class may choose to enter the track at the end of their intern year; the curriculum is embedded into the traditional R2 and R3 years.
The Integrative Medicine Track was developed by residents passionate about learning integrative medicine techniques and skills. The track allows residents to build expertise in integrative medicine through self-guided and hands-on educational experiences.
Residents have multiple opportunites for learning in afternoon reports, Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, Hospitalist Best Practices, Morbity and Mortality Conference, journal clubs and our own academic half day.
We offer protected half day on Thursday afternoons for residents to engage with our internal medicine curriculum. The first eight weeks of the academic year cover core topics in internal medicine for interns. Each month is dedicated to a different subject including medicine subspecialites, residents as educators and board review.
Created by our faculty, this curriculum includes weekly, case-based modules covering foundational inpatient topics. Our ward teams complete these interactive modules that also feature board review style questions on their call days.
These weekly, case-based discussions take place during continuity clinic and cover core primary care topics.
Quality Improvement Chief Residents at UNM and the VA assists residents with quality improvement activities in their continuity clinics and inpatient settings to provide high quality patient care.
QI Curriculum is part of Thursday School programming. Morbidity & Mortality Conference is structured to be systems-based QI activity.
Our program allows the flexibility and autonomy for residents to create their own electives such as medical education, transplant medicine, and radiation oncology.
In addition to standard medicine subspecialties and outpatient electives (like dermatology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, women’s health), we also are very proud of our non-traditional electives. These include medical economics, toxicology, integrative medicine, transfusion medicine, and heme-pathology.
Off-site locations for our residents allow them to see and experience Internal Medicine outside of the traditional academic setting. This includes hospitalist rotations at urban and rural sites in New Mexico as well as rotations on the Navajo Nation.
Opportunities to pursue research your intern year allow preparation for applying for fellowship your second year. All categorical residents complete a Scholarly Project and many of our residents do several. For those who want to complete more in-depth projects, residents can complete up to three months of research electives.
What do I like about the program? The people!!! My co-residents and the attendings are great to work with and supportive. Great exposure for education.
Office of Education
Department of Internal Medicine
MSC 10-5550
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: 505-272-6331
Email: DOIM-Residency-Staff@salud.unm.edu
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