Internal Medicine Residency

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The size of the Garnet Health Residency Program provides a unique opportunity for a tailored educational plan to meet your individual needs. Our goal is for you to maximize your strengths and work on areas of improvement.

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Internal Medicine Residency

ACGME Initial Accredited program

Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine Partnership

Tailored Educational Plan

Stipends

Medical, Dental, Vision Plans

Malpractice Insurance

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Internal Medicine Residency Program

Thank you for your interest in Garnet Health Medical Center’s Internal Medicine Residency Program.

Garnet Health Medical Center boasts seven floors of state-of-the-art technology and provides 383 beds and employs over 2,400 healthcare professionals. More than 600 doctors have privileges at the hospital and treat thousands of area families, friends and neighbors. We are a Heart (STEMI) Center and a Stroke Center. We utilize EPIC for our electronic health record system. The Internal Medicine Residency Program was granted ACGME Initial Accreditation status in 2018 and received Continued Accreditation status in 2021.

The size of the Garnet Health Residency Program provides a unique opportunity for a tailored educational plan to meet your individual needs. The faculty, curriculum, resources, diverse patient population, and close partnership with Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in Middletown provides an ideal environment for residency training. Our goal is for you to maximize your strengths and work on areas of improvement.

Our residents are committed to improving the healthcare of our community just as we are committed to training excellent physicians and fostering their success.

Mission Statement

Our mission is to train the next generation of physicians to provide compassionate, evidence-based, high-quality patient care to the community in the Mid-Hudson region. We are committed to fostering a culture of clinical excellence and professionalism in a supportive, diverse, and collegial atmosphere that promotes life-long learning as well as personal and professional well-being.

Program Aims

Provide an intensive educational environment with a diversity of clinical settings to promote professionalism, progressive responsibility, graduated autonomy, and team-based collaborative care.
Cultivate a collaborative academic environment that emphasizes clinical skills, scholarly activity, and intellectual pursuit.
Respond to the dynamic healthcare needs of patients and society across all cultural and socioeconomic boundaries in our community.
Maintain a culture of wellness where resident support, camaraderie, and mentorship are top priorities.

For More Information & To Apply

Thank you for your consideration of our Internal Residency Program! Please explore our site for more information about our program - from our didactic schedule, resident benefits, and frequently asked questions.

If you have additional questions about the program, please contact:

Elaina Burton
Internal Medicine Residency Coordinator
845-333-1756
IMResidency@garnethealth.org

Applications to Garnet Health Medical Center’s Residency Programs will only be accepted through ERAS, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Electronic Residency Application Service.

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Applying to our Program

Thank you for your interest in our Internal Medicine Residency Program. The application process is conducted exclusively through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). Please visit the ERAS site to apply.

All interviews for the 2022-2023 interview season (residency starting July 2023) will be conducted virtually and held from October through January.

Application Information

We do not set minimum score requirements and we evaluate each application individually, however passage of USMLE Steps 1 & 2 and/or COMLEX Levels 1 & 2 on the first attempt is preferred.
The program’s general cut-off date from graduation of medical school to application to residency is 3 years - Applications received from recent medical school graduates will be considered first.
Minimum of two Letters of Recommendation are required.
- At least one LOR from an internal medicine faculty member strongly suggested.
- A department of Medicine Summary Letter of Evaluation is also suggested.
U.S. experience required. (For international medical graduates, 6 months of U.S. clinical experience working directly with patients is required.)
We do NOT currently sponsor visas (H-1 or J-1).
We do NOT offer observerships or externships.
Applications accepted through ERAS only.
You will be contacted if you are selected for an interview. We thank you for your interest in our program.

Didactics & Conferences

The Internal Medicine Residency Program offers a robust conference series covering acute care, primary care, board review, and evidence-based medicine, including:

Educational Resources:

MKSAP - The program purchases a digital MKSAP subscription for all residents during their PGY-1 year.
John Hopkins Physician education and Assessment Center (PEC) Ambulatory modules - Online modules from this nationally recognized resource are utilized during ambulatory months and for the continuity clinic curriculum.
Annual In-Training Exam - All residents take the ACP In-Training Exam (ITE) every year as an opportunity to simulate a board exam and track test-taking skill and acquisition of medical knowledge.
Intern Ambulatory QI curriculum – Introduction to Quality Improvement with IHI Open School modules.

Curriculum

Curriculum
Type	PGY-1	PGY-2	PGY-3
Wards - Traditional	16	8	4
Wards- GRIT	2	4	4
DMAT	4	4	4
Night Medicine	4	4	4
ICU	5	8	8
Ambulatory	10	10	10
Cardiology	2	0	0
Geriatrics	0	0	4
Neuro	0	2	0
Palliative Care	2	0	0
EM	0	0	2
Elective	3	8	8
Vacation	4	4	4
Total	52	52	52

* Subspecialty electives are in blocks of 2-4 weeks duration

* “4+1” block system - In our system, following 4 weeks of a core rotation/elective/vacation, there is a 1 week ambulatory block followed up again by another 4 weeks of a core rotation/elective/vacation. During these 4 weeks, while the rotations may vary, resident will not attend clinic. This provides for a separation between the inpatient and outpatient experiences, thus enhancing the education in both settings and permitting the residents to focus on the task at hand.

Simulation

The hospital has a state-of-the-art SIM Lab where IM residents practice management of mock codes, mock rapid responses, and other emergencies they may encounter in the inpatient setting to adequately prepare them to become team leaders in their PGY-2 and PGY-3 years.

Resident Benefits

Stipends

You will be offered the following stipends:

PGY-1:
- $750 educational/exam stipend
- $1500 food stipend
- 2 lab coats
PGY-2:
- $750 educational/exam stipend
- $1500 food stipend
- 1 lab coat
PGY-3:
- $1500 educational/exam stipend
- $1500 food stipend
- 1 lab coat

Paid Time Off

PGY-1: 20 business days
PGY-2: 20 business days
PGY-3: 20 business days

Other

Medical, Dental, Vision Plans
Malpractice Insurance
iPads are given to all new Residents

Yearly Salary:

PGY-1: $62,885
PGY-2: $65,086
PGY-3: $76,545

Internal Medicine Graduates

GHMC Fellowship Match List

Cardiology – Deborah Heart and Lung Center (2020)
Clinical Informatics - Geisinger Health System (2019)
Critical Care - Cooper University Hospital (2022)
Endocrinology - Lehigh Valley Health Network (x 2 – 2020, 2021)
Gastroenterology – Hackensack UMC Palisades (2019)
Gastroenterology – Kent Hospital (2020)
Gastroenterology – Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital (2021)
Infectious Disease - Mount Sinai (2021)
Nephrology/Critical Care - Westchester Medical Center (2021)
Pulmonary/Critical Care– Westchester Medical Center (2019)
Palliative Care - Advent Health (2020)
Palliative Care - Yale University (2022)
Sleep Medicine - SUNY University at Buffalo (2022)

Residency Retention

We aim to create a working environment that promotes a sense of community and joint purpose. We take great care and pride in training our residents to be great physicians with the goal of having some join the team and academic mission as attendings.

Since 2019, we have been fortunate to have 8 of our graduates join the Hospitalist Department (who currently work at the Middletown and Catskill campuses) and 2 graduates join the Primary Care Department.

In 2022, we are excited to have our first fellow (Pulm/CC) return home!

Scholarly Activity

Our residents have presented their scholarly activity (notably research, case reports, and quality improvement projects) at the regional, national, and international conferences, including:

ACP Annual National Meeting
ACOI Poster Contest
American College of Cardiology Annual Conference
Annual Digital Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
American Thoracic Society
CHEST Annual Meeting
Garnet Health Medical Center Annual Poster Competition
Medical Society of the State of New York Poster Symposium
New York ACP Scientific Meeting
New York State Osteopathic Medical Society Experimental Research Scientific Poster Competition
Northern NJ SHM Abstract Competition.
Society of Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Congress

Medical Student Audition Rotations

All students interested in completing an audition rotation (2 or 4 weeks in duration, depending on availability) in Internal Medicine at Garnet Health Medical Center may email our Program Coordinator, Elaina Burton, at IMResidency@garnethealth.org with:

Dates you are requesting for your rotation.
Copy of your CV
IM Visiting Student/Audition Application form (click link and complete)
Letter of Intent

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For More Information & To Apply

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Didactics & Conferences

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Simulation

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Stipends

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Yearly Salary:

Internal Medicine Graduates

Residency Retention

Scholarly Activity

Medical Student Audition Rotations

Our Residents (PGY-3)

Aditya Agarwal, DO,

Sunaina Dias, DO,

Neel Patel, MD,

Umbreen Ahmad, DO,

Saad Kaif, DO,

Tiffany Lin, DO,

Zerin Mahmood, DO,

Titilope Obayomi, MD,

Li Pan, DO,

Rebecca Szer, DO,

Arnavi Varshney, DO,

Our Residents (PGY-2)

Erica Brown, MD

Alexandra DePastene, MD

Hamid Ali Jafri, MD

Czariavna Javed, MD

Kevin Joseph, DO

Yuliya Levkiavska, MD

Kenneth Lumbrazo, Jr., MD

Jeffrey Eric Penny, II, MD

Farah Sahibzada, DO

Our Residents (PGY-1)

Nadia Abdulwahab, MD

Swokiya Bhandari, DO

Fariha Chowdhury, MD

Yusif Hasan, MD

Shilpa Mathew, DO

Nishath Rahman, DO

Ajith Saju, DO

Krishna Sheth, DO

Brian Van Doren, DO

Zola Wilkerson, DO

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