The primary site for the internal
medicine training program is Richmond University Medical Center in
Staten Island New York. The goal of the training is to prepare our
residents to be physicians for adults from all walks of life, and/or to
enter training in one of the internal medicine subspecialties. We want
our graduates to be skilled at clinical assessment, evaluation, and
therapeutics, and to function and communicate empathetically.
All requirements of the Residency Review Committee for training in
Internal Medicine are fulfilled, and all graduates are eligible to sit
the American Board of Internal Medicine certifying examination. During
the three years of training, Richmond University Medical Center's
internal medicine residents have the opportunity to learn all aspects
of medical care delivery necessary to function well as an internist.
Throughout the three years of residency, residents learn ambulatory
care by participating as primary care physicians to patients in the
continuity clinic located at the RUMC site. At the beginning of every
continuity clinic session, a general medicine topic is reviewed and
presented to the residents who are participating in that clinic session
that day. In addition, residents do several block rotations in which
they learn those aspects of non-internal medicine specialties, such as
gynecology, orthopedics, ophthalmology, dermatology etc. that are
essential for primary care internists to understand.
All residents attend the daily core curriculum conference, which is
organized according to subspecialty blocks. In addition there are
conferences that emphasize and teach how to improve interview skills
and how to deal with emotionally-difficult aspects of patient care;
sessions that teach cultural competency, and a monthly death and dying
conference held in conjunction with the risk management, nursing,
pastoral care, patient relations, and social work.
Full-time internal medicine faculty supervise the residents on the
wards. Each clinic session has two regular general internal medicine
faculty supervisors.
