Mercy Medical Center – Internal Medicine Residency

Mercy Medical Center is a 300-bed University-affiliated hospital located within a few minutes from University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) and Baltimore's Inner Harbor. At Mercy, second and third year residents care for patients with common medical illnesses in an efficient private hospital with outstanding ancillary services.

Residents work with a large group of hospitalist physicians and are exposed to a variety of practice patterns and management techniques. Our upper level University residents care for these patients along with one-year preliminary Mercy interns. The educational and clinical program is supervised by full and part-time faculty and a Chief Resident from the University of Maryland.

Residents receive complimentary parking and a stipend covering all meals.

Medicine Inpatient Units

Upper level residents serve as team leaders on each of the four general medicine services at Mercy. The resident is responsible for supervising the clinical work and educational experience for Mercy's preliminary interns, psychiatry interns fulfilling their IM requirement, sub-interns and third year medical students on their team.

Morning report and specialty noon conferences are held throughout the week, and include regular Journal Club and Morbidity and Mortality Conferences. Grand Rounds are conducted weekly and feature speakers from Mercy, University of Maryland, Hopkins and other surrounding institutions.

Each of the four teams of residents and students care for an average of 14 patients, with a team cap of 20. Residents are on-call every fourth day, supervising interns and sub-interns on the team and assisting with cross-coverage for other medical teams. While on-call, the upper level resident also serves as the Medical Admitting Officer, triaging and supervising admissions and transfers to the hospital.

A night float team assumes all patient care responsibility at 9 pm on Sunday through Thursday. Upper level residents stay overnight on Friday and Saturday nights on their long call days. Moonlighting opportunities on the weekends are available for upper level residents.