Residents also spend time at Mercy Medical Center, a nearby community hospital, in offices of private practitioners and at HMO's. Since the Department of Medicine and the Department of Neurology are both part of the University of Maryland Medical Center, numerous academic and clinical activities are held conjointly or within the same institution. Residents can easily attend conferences of interest in either discipline regardless of their current clinical assignment. Similarly, several rotations bridge the gap between internal medicine and neurology with residents from both disciplines rotating together for this experience. Residents receive progressive responsibility for patient care and become the team leader with major responsibility for supervising interns, subinterns and junior students.
Residents attend one-half day of continuity medical clinic during the first year.
During years 2-5, residents attend a medical and a neurology continuity clinic every other week through both Internal Medicine and Neurology rotations. Residents share in the coverage of their continuity medical clinic patients, with one of the two residents always having a continuity clinic. This allows the Med-Neuro residents to provide continuity of care, enhance camaraderie and function as a team in a group practice. Since ERAS only applies to categorical Internal Medicine, please indicate in a separate letter that you are applying for both IM and IM-Neuro. Please follow the instructions in the Application Process for Internal Medicine.