Internal Medicine  
     
  Program Objectives  
     
 

The Cleveland Clinic Florida Internal Medicine Residency Training Program began in 1996 in response to the nationwide demand for highly trained primary care physicians able to perform in the outpatient setting.

While the basic training will allow graduates to pursue distinctive careers in any subspecialty of Internal Medicine, the major focus of this program is to develop and train the primary care providers of the twenty-first century with comprehensive academic and clinical experience in General Internal Medicine.

  
     
  Program Description  
     
  There are seven resident positions per year with a total number of twenty-one residents. The year is divided into thirteen modules of four weeks each. Greater than fifty percent of modules are outpatient based. Elective months give the resident an opportunity to explore the outpatient component of a series of medical subspecialties. The choices include:  
     
 
  • Allergy & Clinical Immunology
  • Cardiology
  • Endocrinology
  • Gastroenterology
  • Hematology/Oncology
  • Infectious Disease
  • Pulmonary Medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Radiology
  • Rheumatology
  • Vascular Medicine
  
     
  Residents interested in a particular subspecialty have the option of tailoring their elective to involve the in-hospital consult service with call or office-based subspecialty training.
The longitudinal care clinic provides direct ambulatory patient care by assigning the resident as the patient's primary care physician. Longitudinal clinics run one half day per week and residents follow patients through completion of their residency acting as their primary care physician. Residents are also exposed to long-term care issues that are only encountered in the ambulatory setting. Assisted by resident-assigned nurses and secretaries, a resident can follow up to four hundred primary patients by the end of their residency. 		 
     
  Teaching Conferences  
     
 
  • Morning Report; daily
  • Medical Grand Rounds; biweekly
  • Clinical Teaching Conference; biweekly
  • Journal Club; monthly
  • Multidisciplinary Rounds; weekly
  • Noon Conference; weekly
 
     
  Other Program Features  
     
 
  • Call is one in four during call month
  • Salary is comparable with other institutions
  • Includes three weeks paid vacation per year, to be taken during outpatient rotations
  • Health care, disability, life and malpractice insurance
 
     
 
Jose M. Muniz, M.D., Program Director
Thomas M.J. Niederman, M.D. Ph.D., Associate Program Director
Lawrence H. Beck, M.D., Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine
Eric G. Weiss, M.D., F.A.C.S., Chairman, Graduate Medical Education Committee
Residency Coordinator, Internal Medicine imprg@ccf.org
Phone: 954.659.5881 or toll-free: 1.866.293.7866 ext. 55881
  
     
 
Residency Coordinator, Clinical Residency Training Program
Phone: 954.659.5881 or 1.866.293.7866 ext. 55881
e-mail: imprg@ccf.org