Our curriculum focuses on general internal medicine. Training at Kettering Medical Center thoroughly prepares our
residents for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) examination.
The Internal Medicine residency program at Kettering Medical Center has two major goals: To train internists who, at
the completion of the program, are ready to practice general internal medicine, enter a hospitalist practice or
continue training in a subspecialty fellowship.
To provide training in internal medicine that will lead to board certification
Who Are Our Residents?
Our residents are from LCME-accredited schools in the U.S. and Canada, or from qualified international medical schools.
Medical schools from which KMC IM residents have come include, among many others:
Openings
Ten residents are accepted each year.
Applicants may apply through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).
Residents are chosen through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).
As a first year resident, you spend six months on inpatient general medicine services where you are the primary physician. You are responsible for admission history and physical examinations, discharge summaries, daily progress notes, and following patients in intensive care, telemetry, and ward environments. You are expected to make the initial assessment, integrate this with initial laboratory data and outline a plan of action, write orders, confer with the supervising resident and maintain primary responsibility throughout the patient's hospital stay.
You spend seventh months of general medicine in the ambulatory arena where you are exposed to other aspects of adult care, including dermatology, ENT, and gynecology.
An additional month is spent in pulmonary and intensive care settings. These rotations are closely supervised by senior residents and experienced subspecialists in the respective areas.
First Year schedule consists of the following:
6 months General Internal Medicine
1 month Pulmonary/ICU
1 month Emergency Medicine
1 month Geriatric Medicine
1 month Addiction
1 month Specialty Outpatient
1 month SPCC Ambulatory
Vacation during 5 no-call months.
Second Year
During your second year of training, you have the opportunity to supervise and teach first year residents and medical students. You have increased flexibility with three months to spend on subspecialty electives.
Second Year schedule consists of the following:
3 months General Medicine
1 month Pulmonary/ICU
1 month Critical Care Medicine - Home-call
1 month Cardiology/CCU
1 month Neurology
6 weeks Night Hospitalist Experience - Call
2 Weeks - SPCC Ambulatory
3 months Electives
Vacation during 3 Elective & SPCC months
Third Year
Third year of residency will provide you with a wide variety of subspecialty training. You'll spend three months as the supervising resident on the general medicine services. The schedule affords you a great deal of autonomy, with time available for research. You'll take call for approximately four months during the year.
Third Year schedule consists of the following:
3 months General Medicine
1 month Outpatient Hematology/Oncology
1 Month Sycamore Primary Care
1 Month Night Hospitalist Experience - Call
6 months Electives (1 Month must be ambulatory)
Vacation during Elective & SPCC months
Electives
Addiction Medicine/Adolescent Medicine
Ambulatory Primary Care Med. (either IM, FP, or Peds)
Anesthesiology
Cardiology
Consultation & Perioperative Medicine
Critical Care Medicine
Dermatology
EKG/Echo
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology
Geriatrics
Hematology/Oncology
Infectious Diseases
Nephrology
Neurology
Neurosurgery
OB/GYN
Ophthalmology including Neuro-Ophthalmology
Orthopedic Surgery
Pain Clinic
Pathology and Laboratory
Pediatrics
Plastic Surgery
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Psychiatry
Pulmonary
Pulmonary Function Tests
Radiology including Neuroradiology
Research
Rheumatology
Sports Medicine
Other
Sample Rotation Schedule
Month
First Year
Second Year
Third Year
July
Outpatient
Gastro
Card Lipid Mgmt
August
Medicine
Cardio
Cardio
September
Geriatrics
Pulmonary/ICU
Medicine
October
Medicine
Allergy
Cardio
November
Cardio
Medicine
Medicine
December
Pulmonary/ICU
Critical Care
Amb Primary Care Med
January
Anesthesia
Addiction Medicine
Medicine
February
Medicine
Medicine
Endocrine
March
Medicine
Nephrology
Hem/Onc
April
Emergency Medicine
Infectious Disease
Infectious Disease
May
Medicine
Neuro
Nephrology
June
Medicine
Medicine
Gastro
Ambulatory Experience
Our major ambulatory practice site, located at the Sycamore Primary Care Center,
is approximately two blocks west of Sycamore Hospital. The site consists of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Dermatology.
When residents are scheduled on inpatient rotations, they attend just one half-day session each week. If they are on
less demanding rotations, they attend two half-day sessions each week.
Patterned after a private medical office, Sycamore Primary Care Group integrates the health team concept with the group
practice model.
Computers are an integral part of the center's operations. All residents are actively involved with a computerized
medical record, which was begun in the early '80s. The goals of this system revolve around increasing resident
computer literacy; assuring legibility and continuous access to medical records; increasing efficiency; and promoting
ambulatory clinical research.
The overall ambulatory curriculum also emphasizes ambulatory training experiences at other sites. In addition,
special electives are provided in private physicians' offices for residents wanting more ambulatory training.
Fourth Year
Chief Medical Resident: Weiffenbach Scholar
There are two fourth year positions available each year, Chief Medical Resident and Weiffenbach Scholar. Each position offers a range of opportunities which include participating in a Stanford University Clinical Teaching Course designed to develop the mastery of teaching skills.
The Chief Resident spends some time as the attending physician on the ward and participates in an outpatient practice, is responsible for an academic morning report daily and coordinates other Internal Medicine teaching conferences. The CR also creates the call schedule and is a liaison between the residents and program directors. This is a very flexible year, tailored to meet the individual needs of the physician.
The Clara Weiffenbach Scholarship has offered physicians the opportunity to study a wide range of topics in the field of internal medicine and subspecialties. In this position, a physician designs his or her program under the guidance of the program director. Some of our graduates have studied critical care medicine, substance abuse, academic medicine, computers in medicine, and ambulatory medicine, just to name a few.
Fellowships
KMC now offers a Cardiology Fellowship. About 50% of internal medicine
resident graduates elect fellowships to the sub-specialty of their choice, and of those, more than 95% are accepted.
Institutions for these fellowships have included:
Duke University
Rheumatology
Indiana University
Rheumatology
Indiana University
Oncology
Kettering Medical Center
KMC Cardiology
Providence Hospital
Cardiology
SUNY
Infectious Diseases
SUNY Buffalo
Nephrology
SUNY Stonybrook
Cardiology
University of Cincinnati
Pulmonary Critical Care
University of Cincinnati
Rheumatology
University of Kentucky
Cardiology
University of Kentucky
Gastroenterology
University of Nebraska
Cardiology
University of Pittsburgh
Rheumatology
University of Tennessee, Memphis
Oncology
University of Virginia
Gastroenterology
Vanderbilt University
Infectious Diseases
Vanderbilt University
Rheumatology
Wright State University
Infectious Diseases
Affiliations
Wright State School of Medicine (all residents / fellows are Jr. Clinical Instructors at WSU).
Loma Linda University School of Medicine
DAGMEC (Dayton Area Graduate Medical Education Consortium)
Accreditation
Fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduation Medical Education (ACGME). Our last approval for Continued
Full Accreditation: November 1, 2007 - receiving maximum time allowed, which is 5 years. This program has been fully
accredited since it began in 1972.
Come Take a Look
You have several options to visit and explore our programs one-on-one, with opportunities to talk with residents and
faculty. In addition to one day interviews, you can check out our programs through informal visits or...
Senior Electives - Apply Now
Applicants must be from LCME-approved schools.
Electives last from one to two months. To reduce the expense of visiting Kettering Medical Center and the Dayton area,
we provide students with meals, housing, local transportation, and travel subsidies.
Contacts
Internal Medicine Rotations - Amy Hoeffel - Email Amy
Emergency Medicine - Lynn DeWine - (937) 395-8839
Surgery - Carlene Hunt - (937) 395-8686
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Computers are an integral part of the center's operations. All residents are actively involved with a computerized
medical record, which was begun in the early '80s. The goals of this system revolve around increasing resident
computer literacy; assuring legibility and continuous access to medical records; increasing efficiency; and promoting
ambulatory clinical research.
