Internal Medicine Residency
The Medical House Staff Training Program at Tufts Medical Center provides exceptional training in Internal Medicine in preparation for careers in general medicine, medical subspecialties, academic medicine and clinical investigation. We do not offer a preliminary year. The program, consisting of three postgraduate years usually taken sequentially, offers direct patient care responsibility under close full time faculty supervision in an academic setting. The goals of the program are to optimize house officers clinical skills, knowledge base, problem solving abilities, clinical judgment, and patient interactions. Many of the rotations, both inpatient and outpatient, are set up along subspecialty lines. This emphasis on concentrated learning in a given subject area with teaching given by an expert in the area results in a well rounded internist.
The vast majority of the house staff rotations in all three years is at the Tufts Medical Center. A small amount of outside experience is designed to complement the education at the tertiary care center. Most of these blocks are at the Brockton Hospital, a Tufts-affiliated community hospital. In this setting, house officers are exposed to the community based practice of medicine. In addition, there is one rotation at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, a state-operated facility providing care to the economically disadvantaged. These outside rotations balance the experience at the Center and broaden the house staff's education.
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