The internal medicine residency is accredited by both the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Internal Medicine. The PGY 1 year serves as the AOA internship. Through the creation of a dually-accredited program, residents have the opportunity to complete the requirements for both boards and become dually certified. This residency provides the trainee with the additional skills to become a primary care internist, a hospitalist, or a candidate for fellowship.

The residency offers the following:

• One to two months per year in Ambulatory Care;
• Assignment to a primary care clinician-educator who serves as a mentor over the three-year program and is devoted to hands-on teaching in an ambulatory setting;
• Working closely with a mentor, giving his or her patients one-on-one preceptoring, following patients with the mentor in the hospital and being assigned readings around the cases for discussion;
• Emphasis on physician-patient communication, history taking, interviewing and the physical examination;
• Broader primary care experience through ambulatory rotations in obstetrics/gynecology, ophthalmology, dermatology, ear, nose and throat (ENT), neurology, psychiatry, orthopedics and surgery;
• Emphasis on prevention, health promotion and early detection in the approach to health care delivery;
• State-of-the-art health centers composed of obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics and primary care internal medicine center operating within a managed care framework;
• Clinically experienced general medicine faculty committed to teaching;
• Opportunity to do a research project about a question emerging from the ambulatory
• Three-year residency
• AOA and ACGME approved
• AOA Internship specialty track — first year of residency