The Primary Care Track is designed to prepare general internists for the practice of medicine in its broadest dimensions while maintaining the attractive features of the categorical program in Internal Medicine.
Residents participate yearly in a one-month didactic block devoted to ambulatory care topics.
A Primary Care Chief Resident is chosen yearly from among the program graduates. Virginia Commonwealth University is a recipient of the highly competitive Generalist Initiative award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This project is designed to promote Primary Care, and involves medical students, house officers, and faculty physicians. Residents completing this program are highly qualified to pursue subsequent subspecialty training, academic medicine, or primary care careers. The combined program is comprised of 48 months equally divided between medicine and pediatrics.