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Curriculum

The curriculum for Saint Mary’s Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program provides comprehensive medical education including a variety of elective opportunities with Yale-New Haven Hospital and the VA Connecticut Health Care System in West Haven.

PGY1 Categorical 

  • General wards: 16 weeks
  • Intensive Care Unit (ICU): 6 weeks
  • Night float (NF): 4 weeks
  • Cardiology: 2 weeks
  • Ambulatory: 12 weeks 
  • Emergency Medicine: 2 weeks
  • Electives: 6 weeks 
  • Vacation: 4 weeks 

PGY1 Preliminary 

  • General wards: 12 weeks
  • ICU: 10-12 weeks 
  • NF: 2-4 weeks
  • Electives: 20-24 weeks
  • Vacation: 4 weeks

PGY2

  • General wards: 12 weeks
  • ICU: 8 weeks
  • NF: 4-6 weeks
  • Ambulatory: 12 weeks
  • Neurology: 2 weeks
  • Jeopardy/ ITE/Board Preparation: 2 weeks 
  • Electives: 6-8 weeks
  • Vacation: 4 weeks

PGY3 

  • General ward: 8 weeks
  • ICU: 8 weeks 
  • NF: 4-6 weeks
  • Ambulatory: 8 weeks
  • QI: 4 weeks 
  • Jeopardy/ ITE/Board Preparation: 2 weeks 
  • Electives: 12-14 weeks
  • Vacation: 4 weeks 

Electives

Elective opportunities are available on site at Saint Mary’s Hospital. Mandatory electives include Cardiology (PGY-1) and Neurology (PGY-2). In addition, through the Yale Department of Internal Medicine Residency Office, second- and third-year residents may choose from multiple electives at both Yale-New Haven Hospital and the VA Connecticut Health Care System in West Haven.

Electives we offer are: Pulmonary, Gastroenterology, Cardiology, Nephrology, Radiology, Infectious Diseases, Hematology and Oncology, Rheumatology, Neurology, Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine, Hematology and Oncology, Endocrinology, Hospital Administration, and Research.

Ambulatory

The ambulatory experience here at Saint Mary’s Hospital is comprehensive and diverse. The ambulatory rotations for the interns are divided into two-week blocks and occur throughout the academic year. This schedule obviates the need to go to clinic during the wards and ICU blocks, allowing the interns and residents to focus on their inpatient duties. The ambulatory rotation for the PGY2 and PGY3 rotations is also divided into two-week blocks and includes community ambulatory (private office of community-based primary care physicians) and general ambulatory (continuity clinic, medicine subspecialty clinics).

Educational Activities

Our robust education curriculum includes additional learning activities such as resident report, intern report, journal club, morbidity and mortality conference, MKSAP board review, evidence based medicine, ACLS simulation and Point of Care Ultrasound.