To fulfill the educational component of its mission today, the Department of Internal Medicine trains the leading physicians of tomorrow for the Central Valley and beyond. We educate new doctors with the same passion and dedication that we bring to patient care and research. Internal Medicine faculty and staff produce the best physicians by teaching residents and fellows to communicate openly with patients, treat individuals as whole entities, and respect quality-of-life issues. Because the practice of medicine is constantly changing, we emphasize the importance of lifelong learning and the willingness to be open to new ideas and to ask questions.

Since 1967, the Department of Internal Medicine has offered a full range of postdoctoral training, including residency programs and fellowship training in 11 subspecialty areas. More than 150 physicians currently take part in these distinguished educational programs, which are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and American Board of Internal Medicine.

Many residents and fellows who receive their graduate medical education through the department go on to accept faculty or physician appointments with UC Davis Health System, either as specialists or primary care physicians. Sixty percent of our graduates work in the local Sacramento area, reflecting the department's strong commitment to community service. Other new physicians will remain at teaching hospitals, including UC Davis, to pursue their careers in academic medicine as the professors of the 21st century.

The department's exceptional residency programs enable new doctors to practice adult medicine in the community either as hospitalists or primary care physicians. We provide our physicians-in-training with diverse experience in inpatient and outpatient internal medicine, including general training and opportunities to work in subspecialty areas. This broad-based medical education prepares residents to manage the common problems they are likely to encounter.

Competition for a limited number of residency positions is keen, particularly for the emergency-medicine residency program, where some 500 candidates vie for nine openings each year. Highly acclaimed faculty physicians, many of whom are board-certified in multiple disciplines, and an extremely large number of critically ill and trauma patients make this graduate education program one of the most respected in the country.

Fellowship training through the department gives doctors the opportunity to conduct clinical trials and pursue laboratory research in addition to their clinical care training. Subspecialty fellowship programs are offered in:

• Allergy
• Cardiovascular Medicine 
• Endocrinology, Clinical Nutrition and Vascular Medicine 
• Gastroenterology an Hepatology
• General Medicine
• Hematology and Oncology 
• Hepatology
• Infectious Diseases 
• Nephrology
• Primary Care Outcomes Research Fellowship (PCOR) 
• Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
• Rheumatology