The Educational Map
The goal of the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program is to train leaders in health care by providing comprehensive and outstanding clinical training to interns, junior and senior assistant residents in Internal Medicine.
The clinical rotations and didactic curriculum of the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program are designed to ensure that the housestaff acquire the essential core clinical skills, confidence and independence required for delivering highest quality medical care to patients with diverse types of acute or chronic diseases.
The emphasis of the fundamental learning experience is during each patient encounter, either in the hospital or the ambulatory setting. The three integrated components of high quality clinical training include the availability of a large, diverse patient population served by the Duke Healthcare System, the dedicated faculty as educators and role models to the housestaff and the state-of-the-art health care infrastructure. The basic learning experience associated with clinical encounters at the bedside is supplemented with structured didactic teaching as part of the comprehensive curriculum as well as the acquisition of the tools and skills to facilitate a lifetime of learning and continuing medical education.
Following the completion of the 3 year categorical training period, the Duke Internal Medicine housestaff will:
- Become strong clinicians with the ability to comfortably diagnose and manage both common and unusual clinical problems encountered in the inpatient or outpatient setting to deliver state-of-the-art health care
- Develop into effective teachers of medicine with their experience and contribution to the clinical education of Duke medical students and more junior housestaff,
- Learn key aspects of preventive medicine and health promotion and recognize the psychosocial aspects of disease and the impact of acute or chronic illnesses on the individual, and
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Understand the contribution of basic scientific investigations to our knowledge of fundamental mechanisms of disease and the translation to clinical therapies.
The Duke Internal Medicine faculty dedicated to housestaff education, and the collegial, friendly academic environment at Duke will nurture the intellectual curiosity of trainees who are strongly encouraged by the leadership of the Residency Program and the Department of Medicine to participate in scholarly, academic activities as well as research. Individualized learning and career development planning is a cornerstone of the effort to ensure successful training in Internal Medicine and to fulfill the aspirations of the housestaff in any ultimate career path chosen- whether in academic medicine as a basic or clinical investigator or in clinical practice.
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