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Your Professional Success is Our Primary Care

The internal medicine residency program that prepares you to lead the future

Focused on compassionate treatment, discipline and experience, Sinai Hospital’s internal medicine residency program helps the field-leading physicians of the future develop the confidence and expertise they need. This comprehensive program prepares residents to serve their patients and communities with courage by providing a rigorous curriculum, extensive experience, important scholastic and research opportunities and more.

The Sinai Difference: Leaders Learn Here

Regardless of whether you want to go into academia or pursue private practice, our graduates consistently feel more than adequately prepared for independent patient management. Here are a few reasons why.

A Resident-Focused Program

With no competing fellows in your program, you’ll get more hands-on opportunities and more individualized attention from the beginning—and achieve a higher level of autonomy faster.

Broader Clinical Exposure

Sinai offers a wider continuum of patient care services in-house, giving you in-depth experience managing patients for the entirety of their hospital stay.

Diverse Patient Population

As Maryland’s largest community teaching hospital, Sinai offers unparalleled diversity in patient demographics, including globe-spanning immigrant populations.

Johns Hopkins Partnership

You’ll complete core and elective sub-specialty rotations with Johns Hopkins, giving you world-leading experience in areas like oncology and transplants.

Next-Level Academic Support

Prepare for post-residency success from the very beginning with our longitudinal board preparation program. We also offer technology stipends, research stipends and scholarship support.

Cutting-Edge Technology

Our state-of-the-art training initiatives, including our simulation lab and point of care ultrasound training, give you the skills and confidence to become a better leader.

About the Program

At Sinai Hospital’s internal medicine residency program, we believe that the physician leaders of tomorrow need a connection not only to their individual patients, but also to the communities they serve. As Maryland’s largest community teaching hospital, Sinai is the choice for internal medicine residents like you who are ready to stand at the forefront of this evolution in healthcare.

A Curriculum Built For Your Success

Sinai Hospital's internal medicine residency program provides you with a three-year curriculum, emphasizing the skills required to practice general internal medicine and the proficiency needed for board certification. Our curriculum covers all subspecialty areas of medicine as well as topics related to medicine, nutrition, ethics and research, among other areas.

Resident Success Stories

Our residents have a long history of outstanding fellowship and career placement.  Many residents choose to stay and join our faculty after their training ends.

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Research That Gets Recognized

As a Sinai medicine resident, you’ll have the opportunity to earn national recognition for your scholarly activity. Many of our residents have been published in high-impact journals and have presented at national conferences.

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Meet the Team

Leading with an emphasis on individualized attention for each resident, Program Director Stephanie Sharps, M.D., provides the guidance you need to become the internal medicine expert your patients deserve.

A hallmark of our program is the individualized attention given to each resident while he or she is exposed to a wide range of clinical services and educational opportunities. Whether you are here for one or three years, our program is tailored to meet your individual needs.

Stephanie-Sharps
Stephanie Sharps, M.D.

Program Director