Both are on campus and staffed by UMMC faculty. Inpatient, outpatient, substance abuse and rehabilitation services in these facilities are closely coordinated so residents experience the full range of patient care.
Residents carry no more than six inpatients at a time and receive regular attending supervision.
Four months of internal medicine at the Mercy Medical Center, a private hospital ten minutes from campus. Mercy is also affiliated with UMMC's Internal Medicine Department, and our residents rotate along with Medicine interns. Call is an average of every fourth night. Didactics occur on Thursdays when all residents are on campus attending classes and Grand Rounds. Didactics include introductory courses in pharmacotherapy, interviewing, psychotherapy, inpatient strategies, neurology, general medicine and psychiatry, neuroscience, emergency psychiatry, substance abuse, research methods and clinical case conferences.