Internal Medicine Residency Curriculum
Didactics/academics
Conference
Our conference schedule provides vital educational exposure to the core curriculum of internal medicine. In addition, each resident will be given direct supervision and mentoring in order to achieve academic success and to prepare for boards.
Simulation
Corewell Health Lakeland has a high-fidelity accredited simulation training center that provides advanced clinical training for internal medicine residents. Simulation scenarios occur monthly to enhance the residents' decision-making skills and clinical reasoning.
As an affiliate of and training site for the GME Alliance of Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Central Michigan University College of Medicine and Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, additional resources are available, including electronic library access, research coordinator, statistician, and select live workshops.
All three years will include an ambulatory/outpatient clinic (130 half days total). Block nights entail one month of in-house nocturnist care. Call is service related.
Year 1
This first year provides residents with well-rounded experiences in traditional internship rotations. Residents will develop their core medical knowledge in order to learn the necessary skills to provide internal medicine care. The program includes the following in-house block rotations:
- General medicine - 4 blocks
- ICU - 1 block
- Nights - 2 blocks
- Geriatrics - 1 block
- Ambulatory continuity clinic - 1 block
- Pulmonary - 1 block
- Cardiology - 1 block
- Addiction medicine - 1 block
- Elective - 1 block
Year 2
The second year will focus on enhancing skills that will lead to efficiency in managing multiple patients in addition to expanding into more specialties:
- General medicine - 3 blocks
- ICU - 1/2 blocks (6 weeks)
- Block nights - 1 block
- Gastroenterology - 1 block
- Nephrology - 1 block
- Ambulatory continuity clinic - 1 block
- Emergency medicine - 1/2 block (2 weeks)
- Research - 1 block
- Cardiology - 1 block
- Elective - 2 blocks
Year 3
In the final year, the resident will be able to manage a variety of patients leading toward graduation and practice as an independent physician:
- Internal medicine - 3 blocks
- Admitting - 1 block
- ICU - 1 block
- Nights - 1 block
- Rheumatology - 1 block
- Heme/Onc - 1 block
- Endocrinology - 1 block
- Infectious disease - 1 block
- Neurology - 1 block
- Elective- 2 blocks
Program contact information
Corewell Health
Lakeland Graduate Medical Education
1234 Napier Ave.,
Saint Joseph, MI 49085
phone: 269.982.4941
fax:269.985.4526
Samantha LaBay, DO, program director
samantha.labay@corewellhealth.org
Kim Wright, senior residency program manager
kimberly.wright6@corewellhealth.org