The central mission or goal of the Department of Medicine of the University of Kansas School of Medicine is to provide each trainee with the best possible experience in general internal medicine and its subspecialties. We emphasize excellence in clini- cal medicine, patient care, and teaching, as well as exposure to recent advances in all biomedical sciences.
Priority is given to educating and training a primary care or comprehensive internist.
The University of Kansas Medical Center has four major medical services, two in general medicine as well as Gastroenterology and Hematology. Also present are subspecialty inpatient services providing care in Cardiology, Nephrology, Oncology, and Medical Intensive Care. While providing extensive exposure to the inpatient consult, these services also emphasize outpatient care in the subspecialty ambulatory clinics. Rotations are one to two months in length. An R-1 has typically ten months of general and subspecialty inpatient services, one month of intensive care, and one month of ambulatory service.