Upon completion of residency training, IMMC graduates are well-prepared to enter successful clinical practices or to pursue additional training in subspecialty fellowships. Residents have graduated responsibility for patient care under direct supervision of faculty and attending physicians. Clinical experience on general medicine floors, subspecialty rotations and critical care units is enhanced by daily management rounds. Bedside teaching rounds occur regularly three times per week. Daily educational conferences include morning report, morbidity and mortality conference, grand rounds, journal club, case management and subspecialty conferences.
Options exist to pursue training with a particular focus on primary care.
Residents are encouraged to become involved in defining individual educational goals, taking advantage of electives and unique learning opportunities in areas such as geriatrics, community medicine, chemical dependency, psychiatry, primary care HIV, adolescent medicine and outpatient gynecology and family planning. Each resident has a weekly continuity clinic throughout the three years. Options to add a second continuity experience in the second and third years include invaluable experiences in private physicians' offices, HIV clinic, and community health centers. Inpatient experiences are provided during hospital rotations on the general medical floors, the cardiac unit, the medical intensive care unit, the HIV unit, the emergency department and a full spectrum of subspecialty consultation electives . Preliminary Medicine is a one-year program designed for residents whose professional goals are outside the field of internal medicine.