The UMKC Internal Medicine Residency
Program is dedicated to developing the full potential of each
individual resident within the broad array of internal medicine.
The UMKC Internal Medicine Residency is a university-based
program that offers an extensive spectrum of clinical
experiences.
The mission of the UMKC residency
programs is to provide high quality patient care, education and
training; prepare residents for Board Certification and the
practice of internal medicine and its subspecialties; and
instill within our residents optimal interpersonal skills, a
commitment to their community, and to plant a seed for lifelong
scholarship in generating, understanding, and disseminating new
knowledge to improve the health of patients.
Full-time and community-based
volunteer faculty mentor residents each day at two distinct
Kansas City hospitals that have each been honored for their
excellence in patient care.
St. Luke’s Hospital
is a tertiary care center
nationally recognized for its work in cardiovascular disease and
winner of the prestigious Baldrige Award for Healthcare Quality.
Residents will work with some of the best internists and
subspecialists in the region, providing care to a group of
patients with diverse medical conditions.
Truman Medical Center-Hospital
Hill
is a county hospital responsible for providing primary care to a
significant number of underprivileged Kansas Citians. It has
been selected by the University Health System Consortium as one
of the five top teaching hospitals in the nation in quality,
alongside Mayo Clinic Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
in Boston. Modern Healthcare magazine placed Truman
Medical Centers CEO John Bluford in the top one-third of its
“Top 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare.” Residents here
provide care to patients with multiple, complex medical and
social problems. Residents are viewed as the patients’ doctors
in both the inpatient and ambulatory settings.
The combination of
these different, but equally stimulating environments allows
each of our residents to develop their full potential as
physicians, and supports the UMKC residency vision –
to be a regional center of excellence where
humanistic caregivers mentor and educate internal medicine
residents to become outstanding professional physicians and
community leaders.
Our faculty is known for teaching.
Many medical schools and residency programs are heavily involved
in research, while not focusing on teaching as the most
important part of the mission. The UMKC School of Medicine was
founded with teaching as the primary driving factor for faculty.
We take our mission seriously and
constantly look for new and more effective approaches to develop
the clinical skills of our students, residents and fellows. In
addition, the school has a long and unique history of close
faculty-student and faculty-resident mentorship. These
relationships provide residents with educational and career
guidance throughout their years of residency training.
Our residency program is committed
to providing high-quality clinical training in an atmosphere
that promotes humanism and emphasizes collegiality and social
responsibility. We view each of our residents as a unique
individual and make every effort to provide a residency
experience that is meaningful, productive, enjoyable, and
challenging.
In turn, what we look for in a
resident is a hard working individual who is seeking an
excellent training experience, a person who loves to learn, is
willing to dig in, do a good job and be professional in all they
do. UMKC residents put their patients first. |
