Research and Mentoring

Mentorship is an essential component for the success of our residents.

All incoming categorical interns meet with our associate program director for research and mentoring to discuss career pursuits.

Each intern is paired with a faculty member who provides guidance as the trainee develops and solidifies their career goals. Faculty and fellows help resident engagement in collaborative research and take an active role in ensuring residents achieve their career goals.

Additionally, we offer a series of workshops to prepare for the fellowship interview process and securing a primary care or hospitalist position.

Resident Evaluation

Ongoing communication between residents and faculty is highly valued and considered critical to our success. Residents receive feedback through our web-based evaluation system (MedHub) and evaluate their attendings and rotations. Through our Peer Evaluation System, senior residents and interns evaluate each other and receive feedback from their medical students

Residents meet with the Program Director or Associate Program Director in a formal semi-annual mentoring and feedback session where we review the resident's clinical performance, career interests and educational goals for the coming year.

Subspecialty Fellowship

Residents planning a subspecialty fellowship engage in research during their training and receive close mentoring by faculty who have diverse clinical and research interests. We provide financial support for residents whose research is accepted for publication or presentation at regional or national meetings.

The spring meeting of the Maryland Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP) is an annual showcase of the residents' research and clinical case reports. At each year's ACP May meeting, over 30 residents present their research or clinical vignettes.

Several workshops are held throughout the year where residents learn principles of research design, IRB submission and basic statistics and process workshops on strategies for applying to fellowships, creating an academic CV and having a successful fellowship interview.

During 2023-2024, our residents published 47 peer-reviewed papers, presented 39 national and 31 regional abstracts, published two chapters/textbooks and released 2 multimedia publications.

• See our Resident Bibliography for the full listing.

Primary Care

For those planning a career in primary care, residents can rotate in outpatient primary care practices on campus and in private or community settings. While our residents solidify their knowledge of chronic disease management in their subspecialty ambulatory exposure, we also encourage them to take rotations in fields outside of internal medicine—including, but not limited to opioid use disorder, orthopedics and neurology.

Residents interested in primary care have their continuity clinic in the Faculty Practice Office and work alongside general medicine faculty in a private practice setting. Our Primary Care Chief Resident oversees the primary care content of the core curriculum, conferences and ambulatory rotations.

Hospital Medicine

For residents seeking a career in hospital medicine, we offer an expanded curriculum in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement (PSQI), including the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) modules, longitudinal individual and group PSQI projects, a PSQI elective and conferences on PSQI principles. Whether residents will be hospitalists, subspecialists or primary care physicians, they all benefit from these offerings.

We offer an elective in Hospital Medicine that exposes residents to medical consultation, quality assurance, utilization management, hospital administration and finance, and delivery of evidence-based care in the inpatient setting. Additionally, we offer an elective in the Intermediate Care Unit where under the supervision of academic hospitalists, residents become more comfortable with advanced non-invasive respiratory support, managing in-hospital emergencies, and utilizing ultrasound skills to guide clinical decision making.

While all residents will gain extensive exposure to PSQI in our core curriculum, Morbidity and Mortality Conference and longitudinal QI projects, we also offer a PSQI elective for those who want a deeper understanding of PSQI principles and clinical care.

International Health

Residents with an interest in global health attend lectures and conferences in other departments and institutes on campus, including the Institute for Human Virology and the Center for Vaccine Development. Residents have wonderful faculty support to pursue research in this field, and have the opportunity to participate in international rotations.

In the past, residents have traveled to Zambia, Malawi, Haiti, Kenya and India. Limited funds are available through a special endowment to support resident travel abroad.