Community Medicine Track
The Internal Medicine program offers incoming residents the opportunity to participate in an enhanced curriculum designed around community health and serving patients that are uninsured or suffering from economic and structural disadvantages. As a longitudinal
experience across all three years of training, participating residents will experience:
- Mentorship from leaders among the UTMB faculty, the larger UTMB institution, and the wider Galveston area community.
- A continuity clinic experience in safety-net clinics serving the underserved.
- Protected educational and elective time to further explore pertinent topics including health policy and legislation, medical education, addiction medicine, carceral health, and more!
Requirements by Year:
Community medicine experiences and protected time are distributed evenly across the three years of residency and seamlessly integrated into the foundational IM curriculum.
| PGY-1 | PGY-2 | PGY-3 |
|---|
| Clinic | Weekly continuity clinic at community safety-net site |
| 1 month at community site | N/A | N/A |
| Selectives: | None | 1-2 blocks selective* | 1-2 blocks selective* |
| Additional Community Requirements: | Resident as Educator† | Home visits† | -Health Policy, Leadership & Legislation†
-Psychiatry outpatient† |
| Total Community Experience: | 6 weeks | 6-10 weeks | 8-12 weeks |
| Free Electives: | 8 weeks | 8-12 weeks | 8-12 weeks |
*A total of 3 blocks in community medicine must be completed between PGY-2 and PGY-3 years
†These are each two-week experiences
- Selective options:
- Addiction Medicine
- Carceral Health
- Coastal Health and Wellness Clinic
- St. Vincent’s Free Clinic and Mobile Clinics
- Grace Clinic serving unsheltered patients in Galveston
- HIV/HCV Clinic
- Point of Care Ultrasound
Each resident enrolled in the track will also complete a capstone project focused on a topic in community medicine by the end of the three years.
Medical Education Track
Our Medical Education Track is an optional, longitudinal pathway designed for those residents interested in honing their skills as clinician-educators. As clinician-educator careers in internal medicine continue to grow in popularity, we are very excited to offer this opportunity to our trainees! This track offers a mixture of didactic education, small-size discussion groups, personalized mentorship, and a variety of hands-on experiences in medical education during both PGY-2 & PGY-3. These activities go above and beyond the day-to-day teaching of students and interns during routine clinical work. Medical Education Track participants will have myriad opportunities to participate in teaching, feedback, curriculum development, simulation, and educational scholarship while working with learners across the full spectrum of medical education, from the first-year medical student to the independent practitioner.
Residents who are interested in joining the Medical Education Track will apply at the end of PGY-1 and subsequently join at the beginning of PGY-2. In addition to various longitudinal activities, all track participants will complete two dedicated elective months in Medical Education, one of which can be the Global Health / Education elective in Sapporo, Japan. Designed for significant flexibility, the Medical Education Track can be customized to the individual goals of each resident.
All trainees who successfully complete this track will receive special recognition at residency graduation including a certificate of completion.