Residency Overview
The Department of Internal Medicine offers ten categorical first postgraduate year (PGY-1) positions in its university-affiliated, but independently-approved, Internal Medicine Residency Training Program. Positions are available in a three-year program, directed toward eligibility to sit for the American Board of Internal Medicine-certifying examination.
Our residency program was accredited with commendation for ten years by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. We also participate in the National Residency Matching Program. The residency program offers a structured, university-style training setting that includes third and fourth-year medical students as well as full-time faculty.
St. Mary’s Hospital’s Internal Medicine Residency is a primary care-oriented training program designed for clinically-oriented physicians preparing for a career in either inpatient or outpatient general internal medicine. Approximately one-third of our graduates pursue a fellowship in subspecialty medicine, notably pulmonary/critical care, infectious disease and rheumatology. In 2019, the program's three year rolling ABIM pass rate is approximately 90 percent.
In addition to the traditional medical curriculum, which includes primary care subjects and outpatient office experience, residents are taught the real-world requirements of today's changing practice environment. They are exposed to the basics of quality improvement, patient safety, peer review, high value care and ethical, shared decision making.
University Affiliation
SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital - St. Louis has been a major teaching hospital of the Saint Louis University School of Medicine since 1964.
In addition to serving as the major training site for our independent Internal Medicine Residency Program, our hospital serves as the university hospital for the Saint Louis University Obstetrics and Gynecology Department and its Residency and Family Medicine Residency Programs. Saint Louis University gastroenterology fellows and orthopedic residents rotate on a full-time basis with SSM Health St. Mary's faculty.
Saint Louis University Medical School third-year and fourth-year students perform part of their internal medicine inpatient clerkship at St. Mary’s Hospital. Our residents also interact with St. Louis College of Pharmacy residents both on inpatient and outpatient services. St. Mary’s Hospital has also been an inpatient internal medicine clerkship site for Saba University’s School of Medicine for more than 15 years.