Internal Medicine Residency
Welcome to the Internal Medicine Residency at McLaren Greater Lansing
The Internal Medicine Residency Program at McLaren Greater Lansing has been dedicated to training the next generation of physicians for over thirty years. We are thrilled that you are interested in possibly joining our program and invite you to look through this website to view highlights of our program.
Program Mission
The Internal Medicine Residency Program at McLaren Greater Lansing is committed to developing future leaders in Internal Medicine and its sub-specialties. Consistent with ACGME Institutional and Program Requirements, along with McLaren Health Care Corporation’s mission, we strive to educate residents in the comprehensive assessment and management of disease processes related to Internal Medicine and its sub-specialties. Our program achieves this by providing an essential foundation for learning and promoting an environment of inquiry. The program educates physicians in all areas of Internal Medicine through direct patient contact in both an inpatient and outpatient setting as well as encouraging scholarly activity. The clinical setting exposes the fellows to the diverse population located in the Mid-Michigan/Greater Lansing community.
Quality outcomes and cost awareness is incorporated into training for best valued healthcare practices. A balance between training, service, and scholarly activity is maintained while offering comprehensive educational programs both in-house and at participating institutions. Academic activities such as quality improvement participation and research is a requirement of the program to promote an environment of inquiry and encourage lifelong learning.
Program Aims
The internal medicine residency program at MGL is designed to provide an educational experience in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions that relate to internal medicine and its sub-specialties. To ensure that residents graduate with a strong working knowledge of Internal Medicine, the residents are provided a progressive experience that includes increased responsibility given over the course of the training program. The residents will receive specialty training in Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, Pulmonology, Rheumatology, Nephrology, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Infectious Disease, Geriatrics, and Hematology/Oncology. All residents will graduate from the training program with the necessary clinical and procedural skills to successfully enter a sub-specialty training program or practice independently. The MGL Internal Medicine Residents will graduate having received exposure to clinical research acquired by integrating them into ongoing faculty research projects or in the development of their own individual projects, fostered through faculty mentorship and collaboration. Each resident will participate in at least one scholarly project per year.
Each resident will graduate the training program functioning as a competent general internist with a solid work-ethic and professional demeanor that will allow them to be successful in academic or private clinical practice settings. The program will educate physicians who seek and achieve board certification within 2 years of matriculation into practice.