The UC Davis Department of Internal Medicine offers a full range of postdoctoral training, including categorical, primary care, research track and TEACH (Transforming Education And Community Health — emphasis on serving the medically underserved) residencies, as well as fellowship training in eleven subspecialty areas. The residency program is designed to provide a sound base in internal medicine in order to pursue a career in either academic medicine or clinical practice.

The UC Davis Health System was recently given the 2005 Outstanding Community Service Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges. The UC Davis Medical Center's medical services are staffed by faculty from the Department of Internal Medicine. The medical services at Kaiser Permanente hospital are supervised by clinical faculty who are full-time members of the Kaiser Permanente staff. The Department of Internal Medicine has approximately 130 full-time faculty and 400 volunteer clinical faculty who practice in the Sacramento area.

Our faculty consists of leading clinicians, teachers, and researchers in their respective fields of academic medicine. House staff and faculty provide consultative services to community physicians and to other medical disciplines. Faculty conducts numerous clinical trials, offering patients access to some of the latest advances in medical diagnosis and treatment. The department holds daily noon housestaff lectures, weekly grand rounds, morbidity and mortality conferences, journal club, a MKSAP review course, continuous quality improvement conferences, research seminars, and many subspecialty conferences. Faculty from a wide range of specialties (surgery, orthopedics, neurology, ophthalmology, dermatology, etc.) develop and present these conferences.

UC Davis Medical Center admits approximately 30,000 inpatients a year, while its ambulatory care clinics log more than 800,000 outpatient visits. Nearly 50 percent of the hospital admissions are from the emergency room.

Internship rotations include inpatient general medical wards at the UC Davis Medical Center, two Kaiser Permanente hospitals, and VA Mather, as well as the Medical Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Room at UC Davis Medical Center. In addition, all interns have two four-week ambulatory care rotations with instruction in primary care medicine via lectures, readings, seminars, and multiple clinic experiences. Each house officer also follows patients on a weekly basis at a general medicine continuity clinic. Both the categorical and primary care tracks are fully accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). These tracks are fully described in the following pages.

Our program is well known for the convivial peer support created by the residents and a supportive learning environment. We place high value on academic excellence, intellectual curiosity, human service, broad interests, and professionalism.

We would welcome the opportunity to meet you, show you around our hospital, and discuss the program with you. Please feel free to call the internal medicine residency office at (916) 734-7087/7080 if you have any questions about the application process.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Mark Henderson, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Vice Chair and Program Director
UC Davis Department of Internal Medicine

Contact our Residency Program Manager, Kristi Threlkeld at klthrelkeld@ucdavis.edu.