Welcome
From the Chairman & Program Director
We are pleased that you are considering the opportunity to continue your
education in the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Long Island
College Hospital. The Department of Medicine offers an internal medicine
training program where medical education, ethics, and concern for
the individual are paramount. Our program will help you achieve a
mastery of clinical medicine and will start you on your path toward
a rewarding future career.
Long Island College Hospital is one of the oldest hospitals established in New York and the Internal Medicine residency has been one of its outstanding educational programs. Inpatient training and continuity outpatient clinics are provided on site and this proximity fosters a rigorous intellectual environment as well as a collegiality among house staff. Community based clinics and private offices are utilized for additional ambulatory medicine experience. Our residents benefit from a training program in which all teaching faculty have full time academic appointments at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, our academic affiliate. One of the outstanding characteristics of this program is the collegial relationship between the faculty and residents and the degree of faculty commitment and involvement in the day-to-day education of our residents. Under the support, supervision, and guidance of our faculty, residents take full responsibility for patient care and assume a major role in teaching of medical students and allied health professionals.
LICH is the primary teaching hospital of Downstate Medical Center and a teaching site for 3rd and 4th year medical students from St. Georges medical students. Currently, about 55% of the categorical residents elect to practice primary care/Hospitalist medicine, while those who wish to continue in subspecialty training have consistently been accepted into fellowships, including the subspecialty medicine fellowships offered at LICH.
While we are proud of our traditions, organization and faculty, the most critical ingredient of any clinical training program is, of course, the quality of the residents themselves. We are extremely proud of our medicine residents whose vigorous enthusiasm for hard work, learning, and teaching is exceptional. The commitment that our house staff demonstrate, not just to the patients and to medicine, but also to each other sets this program apart.
Frank DiPillo, MD |
Jeffrey Vieira, MD Program Director Department of Internal Medicine Long Island College Hospital |