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果冻影院 Department of Medicine Internal Medicine Residency Program

The 果冻影院 Internal Medicine Residency Program has been continuously accredited by the ACGME since 1947.

The Internal Medicine Residency of the 果冻影院 (果冻影院) is a multi-hospital university program, located on a beautiful campus serving the diverse patient population of Milwaukee. In existence since 1925, the 果冻影院 Internal Medicine Residency prides itself on a long history of training high-quality internists. Currently, the Department of Internal Medicine is comprised of more than 120 residents, 90 fellows, and 400 faculty members. Our mission is to provide a comprehensive three-year internal medicine training program that prepares graduates to enter fellowship or to practice either primary care or hospital medicine. We have a close knit, supportive environment that fosters camaraderie, excellence, and well-being. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We plan to preferentially review applications from those who signal our program. However, we will probably also consider applicants who do not signal us. Applicants from our home institution and those who did away rotations here should also plan to signal our program if 果冻影院 is one of their top 15 choices.

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Welcome from the Program Director | Kathlyn Fletcher, MD, Professor of Medicine

Kathlyn Fletcher, MD Supportive. Challenging. Friendly. Collegial. These are the words our residents use to describe our program. This is the ethos of the 果冻影院 Internal Medicine Residency Program. Our program is known for its balance of support and challenge. That means that our residents become excellent, independent internists while having a network of faculty and co-residents to guide and help them through the process. If you want to become a world-class internist, please apply here!

A little about me鈥� I went to college in Indiana at DePauw University, which is a small liberal arts school. I went to medical school at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, and then stayed at the University of Chicago for residency. After doing a chief resident year at a community hospital, I went to the University of Michigan to complete the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program. While at Michigan, I also got a Master鈥檚 in Higher Education Administration. I have been at 果冻影院 since 2003. My initial faculty appointment was as a clinician investigator; my area of research expertise is the intersection between graduate medical education and patient safety. So I have written about lots of issues that are important to running a strong residency program: duty hour rules, hand-offs, and workload. In 2017, I took over as the program director, the most rewarding job in academic medicine.

In a recent exercise that our whole residency participated in, the house staff rated the following three things as the most important principles of a high quality residency program:

Training excellent internists
Having passionate faculty with time to teach
Having happy, well-balanced residents

With those principles in mind, our leadership team completely reworked the structure of our program to a 50/50 schedule we call 鈥淚鈥檚/O鈥檚.鈥� 鈥淚鈥� months are ward months, and 鈥淥鈥� months are non-ward months in which all continuity clinics occur and weekends are free. I鈥檚/O鈥檚 began July 1, 2020. Other things we鈥檙e proud of include our program鈥檚 wellness program, diagnostic reasoning and POCUS. 果冻影院, the Department of Medicine and our residency program are strongly committed to antiracism.

Being a physician is a serious commitment. Patients literally trust us with their lives. Therefore, my role as the program director is to provide my residents with rich, diverse opportunities to learn from patients, faculty and each other. It is also my responsibility to provide an environment where we look out for each other, stand up for each other and challenge each other to be the best versions of ourselves.

Welcome from the Vice Chair of Education | Daniel Stein, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Daniel Stein, MD I joined the faculty at 果冻影院 in 2010 after completing my gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship here at 果冻影院.鈥� Prior to that, I attended Creighton University Medical School and subsequently completed my internal medicine residency at the University of Arizona Hospital in Tucson, AZ, where I served as Chief Resident for a year before starting fellowship here in Milwaukee.鈥� I became the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellowship Program Director in 2016 and I have been intimately involved in graduate medical education since that time.鈥� Additionally, I serve as the director of the M2 GI and Nutrition course and have lectured to both internal medicine residents and medical students.

I have recently assumed the role of Interim Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine in June of 2023. As Vice Chair for Education, I have responsibility for all the education missions of the department: student programs, the residency program, and all the subspecialty fellowships within medicine. In this context, I work closely with the internal medicine program director and associate program directors, and remain very involved with residents, both in direct teaching and in advising and mentoring. 鈥疭eeing learners achieve academic success at all levels of medical education is the greatest privilege of my career.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The Department of Medicine and the Internal Medicine Residency Program are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We strive to reduce and eliminate health care disparities, through reflective clinical practice, a purposeful curriculum and relevant research.

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Training Sites

Froedtert Hospital

9200 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53226

Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center

5000 W. National Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53295

Career Guidance & Mentorship

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Special Features of Our Program

Chair is strongly supportive of student and resident scholarship and education.
Program Director and Associate Program Directors at all training sites, with a strong commitment to furthering residency education and scholarship, as well as the health and well-being of the residents.
Curricular flexibility allowing you to tailor to specific career goals./li>
Education through support and independent decision-making; back-up ALWAYS available.

果冻影院 Research

In 2023, 果冻影院 received $131.7 million in NIH funding and ranked 48th among the nation’s 144 medical schools receiving NIH research funding. 果冻影院 remains in the top third of medical schools receiving NIH funding, and is the 2nd largest recipient of NIH funding in Wisconsin.
The 果冻影院 Department of Medicine ranked 32nd out of 113 departments of internal medicine in 2023 with $57.5 million in NIH funding.
In 果冻影院's fiscal year 2023, more than 3,800 research studies were conducted, including clinical trials.
Active research programs at 果冻影院 and VA that include basic science, clinical and health services research.

果冻影院 Clinical

The opportunity to treat patients in three different types of health care facilities:

Quaternary Care, Level 1 Trauma, Academic Medical Center – providing care to both Urban Milwaukee, outlying suburban patients, and referrals from all over Wisconsin.
Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center – 55,000 patients with complete spectrum of inpatient and ambulatory specialty care.
Community Hospital – private patients admitted to both private and hospitalist services.

Froedtert Hospital, our primary training site

Froedtert was rated one of the Top 10 Academic Medical Centers in the country by United Health Consortium
Level One Trauma Center
State-of-the-art, multi-discipline Cancer Care Center
Active transplant services (bone marrow, lung, heart, kidney, liver, pancreas)
Extensive campus growth in infrastructure
Nationally recognized Palliative Care service
Full electronic medical records system

Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center

Zablocki VA rated as a ‘1A’ facility, for delivering the most complex types of tertiary care. Only 30 VA Medical Centers have received a ‘1A’ designation
Provides primary, secondary and tertiary care
165 acute care beds, and over 500,000 outpatient visits per year
Special services at the Milwaukee VA that are not offered at all VA’s include: Spinal Cord Injury center, Comprehensive care including Radiation/Oncology, Long Term Care unit, a Geriatric Evaluation and Management Program and a Palliative Care program.

Diverse opportunities for experience in specially-designed rotations

Ambulatory Immersion (over 30 clinics to choose from)
General Medicine Consults and Pre-ops
Private Practice Preceptorships
Women’s Health
Research Elective
Sleep Medicine
Bone Marrow Transplant
Neuro-ICU
Palliative Care
Hepatology
Allergy

Career Mentorship Plan

Program director and assistant directors meet with residents regularly to assist with the identification of potential research and clinical mentors.
Over 100 enthusiastic faculty willing to actively participate as mentors for research projects, clinical advice, career preparation needs and the fellowship application process.
The program offers sessions giving tips on obtaining a fellowship as well as how to start your search for a full-time position in either academics or community medicine.

Benefits, Conditions and Terms of Employment

Find everything you need to know about the comprehensive benefits package for residents at 果冻影院.