The categorical residency training program at DHMC provides residents with a comprehensive and thorough education in internal medicine. The categorical program offers 15 PGY-1 positions each year. Because of its relatively small size, the program affords residents an opportunity to get to know one another very well over the three years of training. Equally important is the opportunity residents have to develop relationships with faculty within the Department of Medicine and throughout the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Categorical residents develop confidence with inpatient care during the residency.
At the same time, they build a strong framework for outpatient medicine. The curriculum is distributed to residents at the outset of their training and again at the beginning of each rotation. The curriculum identifies graduated competencies as well as therapeutic skills, procedures, and tests which the resident must master in each rotation. The Internal Medicine training program also has developed an ambulatory curriculum, which includes outpatient and ambulatory non-medical topics. The rotational experiences of the residents provide the clinical learning opportunities that allow residents to acquire the competencies described in the written curriculum.