DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, LAS VEGAS
The University of Nevada School of Medicine (Las Vegas) Internal Medicine Residency Program was started in 1979. The program is comprised of 42 categorical residents and 6 preliminary interns. The small size of our program fosters a friendly learning environment with frequent direct interaction with faculty.
The Department of Medicine full-time faculty composition includes 7 general internal medicine faculty, 6 hospitalist faculty, 1 endocrinologist, 1 rheumatologist, and 3 neurologists. The residency program is led by one program director and two associate program directors. In addition, there are 3 chief residents responsible for aspects of program administration, resident and medical student teaching, and supervision of patient care in both the inpatient and ambulatory settings.
Residents mainly rotate through one principal teaching hospital, University Medical Center (UMC), for their inpatient experience. Because UMC is the municipal hospital for Clark County and the city of Las Vegas, residents have the opportunity to care for a diverse patient population that includes individuals from southern Nevada and all over the world. The general medicine service is staffed exclusively by full-time faculty of the school of medicine. The majority of subspecialty rotations are taught by adjunct community subspecialty faculty.
Every categorical resident has a continuity clinic in the Lied Ambulatory Center. This is a well-appointed and well-staffed hospital clinic that provides the residents with direct access to patient information from UMC. A portion of the categorical residents have an alternate week clinic in the Veterans Administration Southern Nevada Healthcare System. In this setting they work directly with a preceptor from the VA.
In 2006, the Internal Medicine Residency developed a relationship with the Nevada Cancer Institute, an independent cancer research and patient care facility. During an ambulatory experience, residents are exposed to general and subspecialty oncology clinics, radiation oncology, and clinical research. In addition, the faculty from the Nevada Cancer Institute are the supervising physicians for the inpatient oncology rotation.
Overall, our graduating residents have had a board pass rate of 100% over the past two years on the American Board of Internal Medicine Certifying Examination.
We were recently accredited for 3 years by the ACGME.
