Director's Message
Welcome to the Indiana University School of Medicine Southwest Indiana Internal Medicine Residency program.
Our program is sponsored by the Indiana University School of Medicine and is part of the Southwest Indiana Graduate Medical Education Consortium. IU School of Medicine has a history of excellence in graduate and undergraduate medical education, and our program is proud to have IU School of Medicine as our sponsoring institution and be a member of its GME community. Our goal is to provide residents with comprehensive learning experiences in both rural and urban settings that will make them fully prepared for practice in primary care internal medicine or hospital-based medicine, as well as to pursue fellowship training or a career in academic medicine.
Our program offers training at Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, IN, the Deaconess Health System in Evansville, IN, and the Evansville VA Healthcare Center. These sites provide our residents with diverse inpatient and outpatient training experiences in a community-based hospital, a large tertiary care hospital serving southeastern Illinois, southwestern Indiana, and northern Kentucky, and multiple ambulatory clinics. Our curriculum is designed to take advantage of the educational strengths of these different sites, with ICU rotations at Deaconess Gateway Hospital, general medical inpatient rotations at both sites, and subspecialty rotations at both sites.
The resident longitudinal outpatient continuity clinic is conducted at Good Samaritan Hospital in our well-established Resident-Faculty Internal Medicine Clinic. Our continuity clinic training is organized into Y-weeks — week-long continuity clinic experiences that occur every fourth week throughout the academic year. Residents are free from other educational experiences during their Y-weeks so they may focus their attention fully on their ambulatory medicine training. In addition to providing multiple half-days of ambulatory internal medicine clinic for patient care, these weeks also include dedicated academic half-days for ambulatory medicine didactics, dedicated time for procedural and simulation training, dedicated time to work on quality improvement projects, and additional half-days for exposure to other ambulatory specialty clinics, such as wound care. Our resident clinic is also very fortunate to have a clinical pharmacist and social worker embedded within the clinic to help our residents provide comprehensive outpatient care.
In addition to our ambulatory didactics during academic half-days, we conduct case-based morning reports at both the Good Samaritan and Deaconess sites three days per week and have daily didactic noon conferences with speakers from both our local faculty and from other IU School of Medicine affiliated programs. Our residents not only present cases at morning report but also prepare and lead discussions at several of our noon conferences, including evidence based medicine (EBM) conferences, morbidity and mortality conferences, board review conferences and senior resident combined reports. Resident participation and leadership at these conferences not only fosters development of their teaching skills but also provides them opportunities to learn principles of EBM/critical appraisal, patient safety and root cause analysis.
Like our training sites, our residents are a diverse group, with graduates from local, national and international medical schools. They are committed to providing high quality and compassionate care to the patients in the communities and facilities where they train, and they are supported by program leadership and teaching faculty who share the same commitment. We are proud of our residents’ academic and scholarly accomplishments, including presentations at regional and national conferences, publications in peer-reviewed journals and successful placement in fellowship programs in many subspecialties of internal medicine. Research rotation is available for residents to have dedicated time to work on scholarly projects, and program support is provided for residents who have scholarly projects accepted for presentation at regional and national meetings. We are also fortunate to have a four-year campus of the Indiana University School of Medicine in Evansville, and our residents have opportunities to supervise and participate in the education of medical students during both their pre-clinical courses and clinical rotations.
I welcome you to explore what we have to offer here at the Southwest Indiana Internal Medicine Residency program.
