Internal Medicine Residency

The primary mission of the Internal Medicine Residency Program is to educate future physicians, especially those with an interest in primary care and subspecialty who will practice in under-served rural communities and beyond. The program aim is to produce competent internists, evidence-based researchers, and educators of future residents and the community.

Residency Introduction & Testimonial

Continuity Clinics

All categorical residents are assigned to a long-term continuity clinic. Over a period of three years the resident has an opportunity to develop a meaningful relationship with a single population of patients in an environment which permits continuity of care with an emphasis on preventive care and the management of acute and chronic illness.

Residents have access to the same facilities and support staff as do the faculty in their own clinics. Weekly educational sessions addressing ambulatory topics are provided in the clinics. Residents measure the care they provide to their continuity clinic patients along various preventative and chronic disease management metrics using tools acquired during quality improvement didactics. All residents will participate in an ongoing quality improvement project based at their continuity clinic assignment.

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Conferences

• Academic Half Day

  The Academic Half Day was implemented almost 10 years ago in response to resident feedback to improve the didactics in our program. Rather than noon conferences given by busy residents on inpatient ward services with limited faculty input, the half day is designed to be a concentrated block of protected academic time that occurs each week. The presenters are interdisciplinary team members, faculty members, fellows and residents offering didactic as well as interactive case-based sessions on topics within the medicine subspecialties. There are also interdisciplinary topics important for the training of a well-rounded internal medicine resident. Community representatives also come to instruct on coding, billing, wound care and other interdisciplinary topics. Residents are constantly challenged to apply this material not only in clinical duties, but also during the interactive case and question-based sessions. As a participant in the Academic Half Day, the goal is to come away with thorough exposure to the subspecialties, a head-start toward board preparation, and also mingle with your colleagues on a weekly basis, encouraging wellness, better work relationships, and support outside of the clinical setting. The Academic Half Day will include exciting aspects such as the Department of Medicine Education Conference, Longitudinal Board Review sessions, Resident Core Lectures, monthly resident forums, administrative updates and presentation practice opportunities. 

• Educational Software

  As an adjunct to our Academic Half Day schedule, the program purchases MKSAP and U World and for each resident. NEJM mock exam is used on our Geriatric rotation and as a mock board-type exam. The Yale curriculum is used twice daily during each clinic block to ensure key ambulatory education is supported.

Life after Residency

Here at ETSU we are proud of our graduates, their accomplishments, and where they go from here. Upon completion of residency the many of our residents are accepted into subspecialty fellowship programs while a number of others launch into primary care physician careers. 

 Residents are provided with career development sessions and resident training level specific retreats twice per year.

Post-Residency Breakdown Subspecialty Career Data