Program Overview
The Department of Internal Medicine at Baptist Golden Triangle in Columbus, Mississippi is dedicated to training residents for careers in general internal medicine or further training in a subspecialty area.
The program’s curriculum is centered on patient-based learning, a core schedule that emphasizes pathology of disease as well as diagnostic processes and clinical management skills.
Our training program is designed to ensure competency in the key domains, as defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education: patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, and system-based practice. We are a program that employs, educates and serves our community.
Residents benefit from more hands-on primary care and subspecialty experience through one-on-one work in clinical and community-based settings. Our Internal Medicine residents work within the Baptist Memorial Health Care system and will be fully prepared to practice medicine by mastering the required curricula, disciplines, and technologies to succeed as internal medicine doctors.
Program Aims
1. Produce competent and independent practicing internist who have the ability to care for patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings comprehensively
2. Prepare residents to be competitive applicants for fellowship and have the opportunity to pursue other interests beyond internal medicine(this may include scholarship, education, advocacy or leadership)
3. Train practitioners to have a basic understanding of QI and patient safety
4. Produce residents who will serve the local community through their practice of primary care, hospital medicine, and medical subspecialties; these practitioners should have expertise in treating the variety of patient populations in our community, with a particular understanding of the medically underserved.
5. Develop socially well-adjusted residents through programmatic focus on physician well-being, with the intent being that emotionally health physicians will be more resilient and able to deliver the best care to our community.
