Sinai Hospital's internal medicine residency program
emphasizes compassionate care for patients in an environment
of disciplined learning. Our graduates complete their
training with a strong sense of confidence and a commitment
to the principles and practice of internal medicine.
Our Philosophy
We believe that the physician leaders of tomorrow will need
a connection not only to their individual patients, but also
to the communities they serve, along with a firm grasp on
health care policy and practice within the larger global
community. In today's challenging healthcare environment,
physicians are required to practice in a cost-conscious
manner and be heavily invested in the quality improvement
process, areas that we emphasize throughout our residency
training.
Diversity of Experience
Sinai Hospital is the largest community teaching hospital in
Maryland, providing state-of-the-art medical care for an
active heterogeneous patient population in Northwest
Baltimore. While committed to improving the health of
individuals in the local community, Sinai Hospital is also a
destination for referred patients from areas outside the
immediate region, including western Maryland and southern
Pennsylvania. The Department of Medicine at Sinai has a
tradition of excellence in patient care, teaching and
research that goes back more than 140 years.
Our large, multidisciplinary full- and part-time faculty
provide close supervision for acute-care patient units,
critical care units, the emergency room, long-term care and
outpatient practices. Chief-resident led morning reports,
faculty-led teaching rounds and noon conferences, as well as
a wide variety of research, ambulatory and elective
opportunities, complete the residency experience. Our core
curriculum covers all areas of medicine and includes special
topics of quality improvement, cost-conscious care,
professional development and medical ethics.
Strong Partnerships
Sinai's Graduate Medical Education Committee sponsors six
residency programs across various specialties, of which the
internal medicine program is the largest. Our program has
enjoyed a longstanding academic affiliation with the Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine, which allows
residents to do both required and elective rotations at the
Johns Hopkins Hospital and has resulted in our being one of
the core teaching sites for Johns Hopkins University
students completing core clerkships in medicine. Core
faculty members at Sinai have teaching appointments at Johns
Hopkins' School of Medicine.
Accredited Best Practices
Our program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council
for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and adheres to all
ACGME guidelines for internal medicine residency programs.
There is no overnight call on any rotations completed at
Sinai, with a full night float team working with
hospitalists on the general medical floors overnight and a
night medicine team in the ICU supervised by a medical
intensivist. All orders are written by house staff, who also
teach students from Johns Hopkins and several other medical
schools on clerkship and sub-internship rotations.
Real-World Learning
All residents are required to complete one-third of their
residency training in an ambulatory setting. Nurses and
technicians provide support for the house staff by taking
responsibility for IVs, phlebotomy and patient transport,
allowing Sinai residents to function as physician-managers
of the patient care team.
Sinai Hospital has a fully implemented electronic medical
record system for all clinical areas, both inpatient and
outpatient, including the residents’ continuity clinic. The
hospital also has liberal computer access throughout the
campus, permitting rapid access to medical records, test
results, information databases and imaging studies.
Research
Our Eisenberg Medical Library is electronically accessible
from all areas of the campus as well as remotely. It
includes a robust number of journals, textbooks and other
clinical decision support tools, such as UpToDate. The
library is staffed during daytime hours with librarians who
are trained to assist in optimizing literature searches and
obtaining hard-to-find journal articles. Additionally,
residents have 24/7 access to the physical library
facilities as well as the adjoining simulation lab where
procedural training and mock clinical situations take place
regularly.
Sinai’s medicine residents have gained national recognition
for their scholarly activity. Many residents have been
published in high-impact journals and have presented at
national conferences. We have always been extremely
competitive in the Maryland Doctor's Dilemma competition, a
statewide academic competition among residencies sponsored
by the American College of Physicians. Our team has been
named state champions and represented Maryland at national
competitions on multiple occasions.
Our internal medicine residency
program emphasizes compassionate care for patients in an
environment of disciplined learning. Our graduates complete
their training with a strong sense of confidence and a
commitment to the principles and practice of general
internal medicine, gaining direct experience in medical
research.