General program information
Program Director:
Schuyler Stone, MD
Program Administrator/ Program Coordinator:
Catherine Brower
Length of program:
Three years
Total positions:
48 (16 per year)
SIU’s internal medicine residency program combines broad exposure to inpatient and outpatient medical practices with a dedicated curriculum and interactive experiences to help you acquire the knowledge, skills and competencies you will need to become an outstanding internist. Our faculty take great pride as educators and are skilled clinicians and patient advocates. Residents are treated as junior partners. Resident feedback, insight and engagement in process improvement sustain our programmatic improvement. Our work environment is not only friendly in terms of people, but also in terms of computerized and ancillary support.
We offer a three-year categorical internal medicine program and a five-year combined medicine-psychiatry program. Linked preliminary medicine positions coupled to our dermatology, neurology and radiology residency programs. Visit Tracks for more information.
The SIU advantage
The SIU Internal Medicine Residency program is structured in a 3+1 schedule format. This design eliminates many structural challenges associated with traditional residency schedules by separating inpatient and outpatient responsibilities, providing the learner with concentrated dwell time in each setting.
The one-week clinic rotation repeats every four weeks, giving our residents a more meaningful outpatient experience and allowing them to function as a full-time ambulist every four weeks. A dedicated ambulatory curriculum is included along with regular exposure to the subspecialty clinics that align with their future career goals and the opportunity to begin building relationships with subspecialty faculty in year one.
On inpatient three-week rotations, our medicine hospitalist service has teams of two interns, a PGY3 supervisor, an attending physician and medical students. Admissions are handled in a drip method between five inpatient teams. On subspecialty three-week rotations, residents will get experience in the acute setting by rotating with the subspecialists in the hospital.
Additional attributes of our 3+1 redesign include:
- Golden weekends before every clinic week – dedicated days off encourage resident to plan for time away from work with family and friends. This guarantees 5 days off every 28 days.
- Every other month when in clinic – a “Hair Cut Half day” is scheduled for Friday mornings. Six free work day mornings to see your doctor, dentist, eye professional, change your oil or get a haircut! Better structure provides residents protected time we hope mitigates stress and promotes wellness.
- 2-3 longitudinal sub-specialty clinics compliment the 5 planned GIM clinics and afford each resident the opportunity to develop closer relationships with our sub-specialty faculty and acquire specific skills (DM, CHF, COPD management) to refine and enhance their delivery of patient care during residency and beyond.
- Residents get their choice of a 2-day holiday off each academic year.
