Internal Medicine Residency at Mountainside

Building a future with unlimited possibilities

The mission of Mountainside Hospital’s internal medicine program is to train and equip competent general internists and candidates for subspecialty training. We strive to develop well-rounded practitioners who deliver compassionate, safe, cost-effective, evidence-based care to a multicultural population.

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Please contact Jeanette Richardson at 973-429-6196 or Jeanette.Richardson@MountainsideHosp.com

Become a great primary care internist

The three-year program includes a team approach to medical education and patient care and a basis to learn the skills required by the American Board of Internal Medicine. We build superb primary care internists.

Our Internal Medicine Residency Program is fully accredited by the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine (RRC-IM) of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Our graduates consistently pass the ABIM certifying examination on the first attempt with scores in the top decile. Currently there are six first-year year positions open, six second year and eight third year, for a total of 20 residents.

Since 1994, some 20 percent of our graduates have entered subspecialty fellowship training programs including Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and Infectious Diseases at various premier programs such as the National Institutes of Health, the Mayo Clinic, Baylor University, University of Minnesota, and UMDNJ-NJMS.

With full-time faculty devoted entirely to the education of residents and students, we offer the opportunity to:

1. Learn in a state-of-the-art audio-visual facility: the Alan E. Matook M.D., M.Sc. Residents’ Learning Center.
2. Provide the best evidence-based patient care. This encompasses gender, age and occupation as well as ethnic, economic, home and environmental factors.
3. Develop competence in clinical diagnosis and cost effective treatment while promoting optimal fitness and disease prevention.
4. Acquire a broad background and experience in other medical disciplines including office gynecology, orthopedics, ophthalmology, ENT, rehabilitation medicine and urology.

We believe in a team approach to medical education and patient care; our teams consist of one intern and one resident. Together they are responsible for an average of eight to ten patients on the medical floors and six to eight patients in the critical care units. A teaching attending oversees each team, serving as both a resource person and a role model. The teaching attending conducts didactic and bedside rounds daily and is available for consultation at any time.

Residents are encouraged and expected to learn to proficiently perform those procedural skills recommended by the American Board of Internal Medicine. They have the opportunity to practice these procedures on our state-of-the-art bioskills models. Likewise, residents are expected to attend all scheduled conferences, clinics and educational rounds in a timely fashion. All categorical residents are required to prepare a research project or case report at the completion of the third year. Mountainside residents have been invited to present their research projects at the state and national meetings of the American College of Physicians and have published case reports in “Resident and Staff Physician.”

The following conferences supplement and amplify clinical ward teaching:

1. Monthly Clinical Pathology, Chief of Service Conferences, Journal Club meetings, and Performance Improvement Conference.
2. Daily noontime conferences in the subspecialties and specialties of medicine.
3. Conferences on topics of common interests held in conjunction with the Family Practice Residency such as law and medical ethics, practice management, and occupational and preventive medicine.
4. Visiting Professor Program. Twice a year, eminent clinician educators come to participate in morning report, case presentations, and give medical grand rounds.

In addition, junior and senior residents actively participate in a number of medical staff and hospital-wide committees including:

1. Performance Improvement
2. Critical Care
3. Emergency Medicine
4. Clinical Resource Management
5. Medical Records
6. Library
7. Medical Education
8. Pharmacy and Therapeutics 

Two residents elected by their peers also sit on the Resident Council of the Graduate Medical Education Committee.

 
Throughout the three years of residency, one half day per week is spent seeing patients in the outpatient clinic.  Residents have the opportunity to use e-MD, a newly installed electronic medical record for their clinic patients.