Internal Medicine Residency at MountainView Hospital

Core Educational Features

• Our program utilizes a 3+1 schedule system to assign residents 3 weeks of rotation across variable settings including inpatient medicine wards, night float and other subspecialty rotations followed by one week of ambulatory care in the continuity clinic. Residents are also assigned 4 weeks of ICU each post graduate year and 4 weeks of Emergency Medicine in the senior year.There is no 24-hour call, as we feature a dedicated Night Float rotation.
• To fulfill our mission of training high quality internists and to further expand the clinical learning and experience for the residents, our program offers a good mixture of inpatient and outpatient electives.

Simulation Curriculum

The program also features the Ultrasim ultrasound machine learning & training simulator for self-directed POCUS training, plus a dedicated POCUS elective.

Research & Scholarly Activity

• Structured research curriculum with dedicated systematic lecture series
• Morning lectures on creative thinking, literature review, data gathering, IRB protocols
• Biomedical statistics taught by the Division Director of Research
• All residents required to complete a minimum of one scholarly activity and one QI project
• Annual research stipend for conference presentations at regional/national levels
• Research Week organized each September
• ACP Resident Research Competition — state-level winners multiple times since 2016

Resident Resources Provided

• Work laptop and iPhone with HCA GME cellular service
• Resident lounge with 24-hour access to food and drinks
• Covered parking spaces
• Adjacent GME facility with dedicated classrooms, research space, and on-call rooms