Residency Programs in Internal Medicine with Research Tracks

  The internal medicine research tracks below are not exhaustive but do list the majority of excellent training programs across the United States.  Feel free to look for others.  Virtually all programs indicate that you should inform the program of your research track interest PRIOR TO YOUR INTERVIEW to ensure the most information is available at the time you visit.  Moreover, most of the programs have a limited number of such slots.  The American Board of Internal Medicine offers a six year combined residency fellowship program leading to board certification in internal medicine and fellowship certification in a subspecialty following three years of clinical training (two years of internal medicine and one year of fellowship) and three years of research.  The program is listed on most sites as "ABIM research track".  General information can be found on the website for the American Board of Internal Medicine.

 

American Board of Internal Medicine information on the Research Track:

  http://www.abim.org/cert/respath_pp.shtm

  The following very good programs do not appear to offer research tracks but instead offer only three year intense clinical training leading to board certification in internal medicine.  If you are interested in any of these programs, be sure to ask about research opportunities and research time allowed.  These programs are listed here as they are premier postgraduate training programs in internal medicine and should offer such tracks; unfortunately, as far as their websites indicate, they do not.

 

Harvard University Johns Hopkins University University of Washington UC Davis University of Alabama-Birmingham Emory University University of New Mexico-Albuquerque University of Texas-San Antonio University of Texas-Galveston

University of Oregon Health Sciences University of Colorado Health Sciences Cleveland Clinic Foundation Case Western Reserve University of Arizona University of Southern California Wake Forest University

 

The following Internal Medicine Residency Programs offer Research Tracks.  Some of these experiences are two years of research and two years of clinical experience leading only to board certification in internal medicine, at least one is three years of research (five years total) leading only to board certification in internal medicine, while many are the ABIM combined internal medicine/fellowship program described above.  For specific information on each program, use the links on the following pages.  Note that this is not an exhaustive list.  However, the premier programs in internal medicine are included on this list and the previous. 

  Southeastern United States:

  North Carolina

  Duke University

Research Track in Internal Medicine:

  http://www2.medicine.duke.edu/medres/ResidencyProgram/featuresList/researchPath.asp

  Research Programs: 

  http://medicine.duke.edu/modules/research/index.php?id=1

 

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  http://www.med.unc.edu/wrkunits/2depts/medicine/web/resch.htm

 

Tennessee

  Vanderbilt University

  http://medicine.mc.vanderbilt.edu/harrison/q4paharrison.cfm

 

Midwest

  Missouri

  Washington University in Saint Louis

  http://meded.im.wustl.edu/application/pst.html

  http://meded.im.wustl.edu/application/PSTPFlier.html

 

Texas

  University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston

  http://www.uth.tmc.edu/schools/med/imed/residency/resd.htm#Clinical%20Investigator%20Pathway

 

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

  http://www8.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept151858/files/151773.html

 

Baylor College of Medicine

  http://www.bcm.edu/meritscholars/

 

Michigan

  University of Michigan

  http://www.med.umich.edu/intmed/resident/educational_prgms.html

 

Illinois

  University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine

  http://imr.bsd.uchicago.edu/clinical.html

 

Northwestern University-Feinberg School of Medicine

  http://www.medicine.northwestern.edu/residency/pstp.html

 

Far West

  California

  University of California, Los Angeles

  http://www.star.med.ucla.edu/

 

University of California, San Diego

  http://pstp.ucsd.edu/

 

University of California, San Francisco

  http://medicine.ucsf.edu/residency/molmed/index.html

 

Stanford University

  http://medicine.stanford.edu/education/scip.html

 

Northeast

 

Connecticut

  Yale University

  http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/prog/trad/program.html

 

Massachusetts

  Boston University

  http://www.bumc.bu.edu/www/busm/imrp/images/RTB.pdf

 

New York

  Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons

(note, there is a discrepancy as to when residents enter the track).

  http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/medicine/program/research.html

  http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/medicine/residency/tracks.htm

 

New York University

  http://www.med.nyu.edu/medicine/residency/categorical/research.html

 

Cornell University

  http://www.nycornell.org/dept/medicine/residency/track.html

Pennsylvania

  University of Pennsylvania

  http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/medicine/Medicine/Applicants/brochure.html#cip

 

University of Pittsburgh

  http://www.upmc.edu/medicine/residency/Clinical_Investigator_Pathway.htm