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State University of New York at Stony Brook

Internal Medicine Residency Program

The Department of Medicine welcomes your interest in postgraduate training at Stony Brook.

The Training Program

Stony Brook's fully accredited residency training program offers a

The Internal Medicine Residency Program at Stony Brook aims to educate compassionate, knowledgeable internists by training in up-to-date medicine and life-long learning skills.

The Primary Care and Categorical tracks differ primarily in the amount of time spent in ambulatory care. Both include teaching of the new skills needed by the internists of the next century - clinical reasoning, decision analysis, critical appraisal of the literature, cost-effective patient management, and patient and team management skills.

The Department of Medicine has a commitment to excellence in research, education and clinical care; opportunities for research continue to grow. We promote a scholarly atmosphere exemplified by our three-year average Internal Medicine board pass rate of 90%; we also require each graduating resident to complete a significant academic project.

View the Department of Medicine Active Research Centers and Programs

View a list of Publications of Department of Medicine Faculty.

Two special components of our program are the closed faculty system and our ambulatory experience. The closed faculty system ensures that one attending is responsible for all patient care, and all educational experiences. As an inpatient team resident you will only have to contact one attending for any patient care concerns. This enables teaching discussion to flow from pathophysiology directly into management planning. Our ambulatory experience emphasizes preventive medicine and women's health with strong continuity at two sites.

As educators, we are excited about the new emphasis on primary care and take pride in the fact that we graduate approximately one-half of our residents into primary care. The other half enter into a variety of subspecialties. Many of our graduates opt to join the practice community, while others continue to pursue academic and research careers.

We are proud of our program and the flexibility it offers and welcome applications through ERAS from highly motivated individuals. If you have questions please E-Mail us or call (631) 444-8044.

 

Application Information for Pulmonary Fellowship

All applications to the Pulmonary/Critical Care at Stony Brook University Hospital must be made through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) and must include a personal statement, three letters of recommendation including one from the Residency Program Director, a Dean's letter, a medical school transcript and a USMLE Step I, II, & III transcript. A photograph is highly recommended for review by the Ranking Committee. Each application is reviewed on the basis of its own merits.

Medicine-Pediatrics and Medicine-Neurology Programs

A combined four-year Medicine and Pediatrics residency program (applications through ERAS or by mail) and a five-year Medicine and Neurology program are offered jointly by the three cooperating departments. For further information, contact

William Wertheim, M.D.
Residency Program Director
Department of Medicine
Health Sciences Center
Room 020, T16
Stony Brook, New York 11794-8160

The State University of New York at Stony Brook is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity educator and employer.


WHY SHOULD YOU CONSIDER STONY BROOK FOR YOUR MEDICINE RESIDENCY?

A Message From The Program Directors

William Wertheim, MD, Associate Chair and Residency Program Director
Elaine Hearney, MD, Assistant Program Director; Site Director, DVAMC
Cathleen Rook, Academic Program Manager

The Setting: The Year 2010 - Your Practice

  • What Will You Be Doing?
    Many of you will be doing office-based primary care. Other important options: hospitalist medicine, subspecialties, academic medicine

  • How Will You Do It?
    Today and in the future, physicians must practice high quality, cost effective medicine. Prevention and patient satisfaction will continue to grow as crucial components of practice.

With This Future In Mind, Our Goals At Stony Brook Are To Help You

  • Learn Internal Medicine, As Taught By Your patients, your peers, your faculty and yourself

  • Learn The Skills You Need
    Putting your patients' needs first, Clinical/procedural skills, Communicating skills, Eliciting and accepting trust, Decision-making, Life-long learning skills

  • Choose A Career
    Primary care? Subspecialty? Academic? Community?

How Can The Stony Brook Program Help?

For All Residents

  • Rich Internal Medicine Curriculum
    You will encounter conditions and illnesses from the common to the obscure, and you will participate in all stages of diagnosis and treatment. The faculty has a dedication to teaching and is highly skilled at clinical care and bringing research to the bedside.

  • Medical Decision-Making And Evidence-Based Medicine
    You will learn the tools you need to critically appraise new information and how to bring that knowledge to the care of patients.

  • Dollars And Sense
    You will develop efficiency and productivity, learn optimal selection of diagnostic and laboratory tests, and become familiar with the use of care maps (established tools and guidelines to aid in clinical practice).

  • Academic Project
    You will understand how new medical knowledge is identified by participating in a scholarly project, under the supervision of a faculty mentor. This project can be one of the following:
      Basic or clinical research project
      Case report
      Curriculum development
      In-depth topic review
      Develop care map

Primary Care Or Categorical Track?

Feature Primary Care Categorical
"Upweighted"? yes no
Continuity Clinic full day weekly half day weekly
Psychosocial Aspects of Care emphasized, plus month block emphasized
PC "Non-Medicine" Months
(Ortho, Gyn, etc.)		 yes elective
Substance Abuse Treatment Month yes elective

Choose The Track That Fits Best Now

Other Special Programs

  • Medicine/Pediatrics Program - 4 yrs.
    To achieve in-depth training and board eligibility in medicine and pediatrics

  • Medicine/Neurology Program - 5 yrs.
    To achieve in-depth training and board eligibility in medicine and neurology

  • Women's Health Track (within Primary Care Program)

Our Strengths That Help Us Help You

  • A young, excellent faculty with a strong interest in teaching

  • Program directors and chief residents dedicated and determined to provide a strong intellectual program in a nurturing environment, with the attention you need as an individual to meet your specific goals

These three groups of people interact and combine to provide a supportive and collegial atmosphere in which residents, students and faculty are eager and able to teach each other.

  • Two excellent teaching hospitals, with differing and complementary patient populations and supervisory systems

  • Location on a major research university campus

  • A very pleasant suburban setting, with good recreational options and access to but no intrusion by the city.

Marks Of Excellence

  • Received a 4-year accreditation cycle with commendations from the RRC

  • Closed faculty system with one attending responsible not only for all patient care, but also for all educational experiences for each team; as an inpatient team resident you will only have to contact one attending for any patient care concerns; enables teaching discussion to flow from pathophysiology directly into management planning.

  • Excellent results in getting residents into nationally acclaimed fellowship programs

  • Primary care track achieved "upweighted" status on first application to NY State

Specific Points Regarding The VAMC

  • The primary care firm system, which provides continuity of care for patients by having patients, attendings and residents all divided up into three firms through which inpatient and outpatient care is given; has resulted in decreased ER visits, decreased inpatient census, and markedly increased patient and physician satisfaction. Has won national recognition with the VA system and outside of it.

  • A system of relative independence in which the residents are identified by the patients as the doctors in charge, both in the inpatient and the outpatient setting, thus providing a chance to really direct the care, under supervision

  • A highly popular Skills month, which is combined with outpatient Gyn at Planned Parenthood

  • A primary care continuity clinic facility, with rooms for special primary care services such as stress testing, flex sigs, etc.



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