The Internal Medicine Residency Program will prepare you to be a competent, competitive and compassionate internist in any field you choose. Whether you aspire to be an academic sub-specialist or a rural primary care doctor, our program has the committed faculty, diversity of clinical exposure, innovative educational curriculum and flexible scheduling to help you reach your goals.
The University of New Mexico Hospital and the VA Medical Center are the largest teaching hospitals in the state and serve as referral centers for a geographic area that extends into neighboring states. Add the fact that UNM Hospital is a county hospital and Level 1 Trauma Center, and you get unparalleled clinical diversity under the umbrella of an outstanding academic institution committed to underserved communities.
Department of Internal Medicine
MSC 10 5550
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: (505) 272-6331
IMResidency@salud.unm.edu
Applications for the HSC Internal Medicine Resident Program are accepted only through the "Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).
Our community of residents, faculty and staff are here to support you through the most exciting and challenging time of your life. We pride ourselves on creating a culture that replaces the typical hierarchy of medical education with a learning environment defined by mutual respect, intellectual curiosity and resident teamwork, while preserving resident autonomy in clinical decision making. Our program administration and faculty are attentive and responsive to residents’ needs, resulting in a program that is always evolving to create the most academic, flexible and supportive training.
Betty Chang, MD
Program Director
I feel honored to have the opportunity to be the Program Director of the University of New Mexico Internal Medicine Residency Program. It is both a privilege and a responsibility I hold dear. It is a privilege because I have the opportunity to nurture young physicians while they develop their medical knowledge, grow in self confidence and mature in their professionalism. It is a responsibility because I must ensure that their environment is conducive to learning.
My goal is to tailor our residency training for each individual resident's needs while meeting the requirements for board certification. So, if you want to be a gastroenterologist, we provide research time in a GI basic science lab; if you want to be a hospitalist, we offer extra medical consultation months or private hospitalist months; if you want to be a rural physician, you can do rotations in an underserved New Mexico community; if you are interested in international medicine, we can coordinate a research month in India, an ID month in Chile looking at Hanta Virus, or an HIV clinic month in Kenya.
I believe in looking at a resident as not only a physician, but also as a spouse/partner, a pet owner, a hiker, a rock climber, a snow boarder, a parent, an avid reader, a pianist, a swing dancer, a chef of Ethiopian cuisine. While it is my job to foster the lifelong learner in my residents, it is also my role as an educator to guide residents in becoming not only successful physicians but also successful people.
House Officer of the Month
For activities during the month of September
The 2011-2012 Chief Residents are Alisha Parada, MD (UNM), Leonardo Macias, MD (VAMC), and Eva Angeli, MD (VAMC Primary Care).
Congratulations to Karen Cardon for winning "best poster presentation" at the Regional Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM).
The House Officer Meditation room is now open, available to all house staff for prayer, meditation and reflection. Ask the Chief Residents for more information.
Our first recruitment event was held Nov. 19-20. We were excited to meet all of the wonderful applicants who have applied to our program.