Program Overview
Welcome to the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Mercy Health St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital. We began training internal medicine residents in 1967 and have a rich tradition of producing excellent internists. Our graduates are well-prepared for careers in traditional primary care and hospital medicine, as well as further sub-specialization through fellowship positions in cardiology, hematology/oncology, endocrinology, pulmonary-critical care, nephrology, infectious disease, gastroenterology and rheumatology. We are very proud of the accomplishments of our residents, both during their training and later in their careers.
We celebrate our diversity where our program has been represented by both national and international residents from many countries across the world. We will continue to extend our search for enthusiastic candidates who honor our diversity and share in our mission to serve.
We have an extremely dedicated and committed teaching faculty, robust scholarly activity and a supportive administration. Each year many of our residents present their clinical research or clinical vignettes at local, regional, national and even international meetings. Our program was awarded the Silver Medal for Research by the Ohio ACP (Annual Scientific Meeting) in 2015 and the Gold Medal in 2017, 2018 and 2019!
Our mission in training residents as part of our graduate medical education program is to:
- Educate resident physicians to become proficient in the ACGME core competencies of patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism and systems-based practice.
- Prepare resident physicians for the unsupervised independent practice of general internal medicine, hospital medicine and/or subspecialty fellowships.
- Provide education that prepares residents to consistently provide excellent care to their patients.
- Deliver comprehensive, compassionate and safe patient care by faculty and residents to an inner city under-served adult population.
- Deliver comprehensive, compassionate and safe patient care by faculty members and residents to the community’s under-represented non-English speaking minorities.
- Manage patients with complex medical problems who require hospital admission under the supervision of faculty attending physicians.
- Provide comprehensive ambulatory care experiences in the hospital’s ambulatory clinic, offices of practicing internists/sub-specialists, and geriatric facilities.
- Provide a didactic program which covers a wide range of topics including general internal medicine, internal medicine subspecialties, monthly journal clubs, morbidity and mortality conferences, CPC’s, complementary specialties, basic sciences and a variety of miscellaneous topics.
- Foster medical student education during core internal medicine clinical clerkship and third/fourth year electives in a team setting with resident supervision.
- Encourage resident scholarly activity and develop the ability to teach, critically review the medical literature, prepare written and oral academic investigations, and become life-long learners.
Our residency program aims to foster a well-balanced residency education with:
- Collegial faculty-resident relationships.
- An adult learner model with residents expected to take initiative in acquiring knowledge and become self-directed learners.
- Constructive feedback techniques which foster professional growth.
- Reasonable accommodations to the personal needs of residents.
- A supportive approach to residents which respects them as people and encourages them to achieve their full potential.
- Individualization of learning based on specific interests and capabilities.
- Consistent orientation to the total well-being of patients.
- Flexibility in clinical rotations and educational experiences to allow residents to meet their career goals.
- A forward-looking approach which seeks to prepare residents to thrive in 21st century American health care and support for time-tested internal medicine concepts including comprehensiveness and continuity of care, cost-effectiveness, thorough assessments and plans of patient problems, and attention to the psycho-social aspects of health care.
- Provision of collateral benefits to the community.
Accreditation Status
Program Name: St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital/NEOMED Internal Medicine Residency Program
ACGME ID number: 1403811349
Accreditation Status: Continued Accreditation
Next Site Visit: TBD
Length of Training: 3 years
Approved Resident Positions: 33, accept 11 residents per year