Training Sites - Internal Medicine Residency
Over 200 Department of Medicine faculty members participate in resident training at four teaching hospitals. About 35% of rotations occur at University Hospital and Huntsman Cancer Hospital, 40% of rotations at the Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and 25% of rotations at Intermountain Medical Center.
The different strengths of each of these institutions, along with the collegial environment they provide, results in quality resident education with an excellent integration of all specialties.
We also have off-site training at various clinics throughout the Salt Lake Valley and offer two great international opportunities in Kenya and Ghana.
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University Hospital is a 425-bed tertiary and primary care center situated at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains in Salt Lake City, and averages 26,000 inpatient admits per year. The hospital is a major referral center for complex and often unusual medical cases from throughout the Intermountain West. It also maintains a large primary care base supplied from the Division of General Internal Medicine and the ten satellite clinics of the University of Utah Health Network. All patients have private rooms with fantastic views of the Salt Lake mountains and valleys.
The medical services are divided among 8 ward housestaff teams (4 general medicine teams as well as pulmonary, cardiology, hematology, and oncology teams) and 3 ICU teams. The general medicine teams are supervised by full-time teaching hospitalist physicians and the others by their respective teaching specialists. The cardiology team includes instruction from electrophysiologist, interventionalist, and heart failure specialists.
ICU: The twelve bed Medical Intensive Care Unit is jointly supervised by a critical care specialist and a general cardiologist.
ER: The University Hospital Emergency Room is located in the new Eccles Critical Care Pavilion. It is a Level 1 trauma center with roughly 36,000 visits per year. Residents are supervised by full-time faculty from the Division of Emergency Medicine.
University Hospital has substantial support personnel and services, which greatly minimize non-physician tasks for residents (eg., phlebotomy, intravenous access, discharge planning, etc.). University Hospital is connected to Huntsman Cancer Hospital and Huntsman Cancer Insitute by a covered walkway.
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Mission:
The mission of Huntsman Cancer Institute combines groundbreaking research and state-of-the art patient care with the offering of hope and support for cancer patients and their families. Our teams of research scientists, medical professionals, and cancer educators are working to understand cancer, improve treatments, and help patients fight their disease. Former Huntsman Cancer Foundation President, Jon Huntsman, Jr., explains, "It is the goal of Huntsman Cancer Institute to become a symbol of hope and optimism. We want those carrying the heavy burden of cancer to feel strengthened and hopeful."
History:
Salt Lake has become one of the foremost regions in the world for genetic and medical research due to its unique resource of large and close families with detailed genealogical records living in a relatively small area. These families, have provided physicians and researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute with the tools they need to investigate the genetic pathways of cancer and to create new ways to prevent, diagnose, treat, and cure cancer.
Huntsman Cancer Institute has become a reality thanks to the generous support of the Jon M. Huntsman family, which pledged $151 million in 1995 to create a world-class cancer center. This institute bears their name and their vision of hope for all who are burdened with cancer.
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This hospital, which opened in 1995, is a 121 bed tertiary and primary care medical center located about a mile south of University Hospital. It is the major tertiary referral center for the Department of Veterans Affairs for a 5 state region and has a diverse inpatient and outpatient population. The VA Salt Lake City Medical Center provides an outstanding opportunity for residents to have graded responsibility and the necessary autonomy to develop individual responsibility for patient management. The facility is excellent with spacious team rooms and call rooms. The hospital utilizes a fully electronic medical record.
Medicine: The VA Salt Lake City Medical Center ward medical service utilizes approximately 40 beds divided among 4 general medicine teams. Each team is supervised by a full-time academic faculty attending from the Department of Medicine.
ICU: The 8 bed medical ICU is supervised jointly by a critical care specialist and a general cardiologist.
There are substantial support services at the VA Salt Lake City Medical Center, which greatly minimize non-physician tasks for residents (eg., phlebotomy, intravenous access, discharge planning, etc.)
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Intermountain Medical Center replaced LDS Hospital as Intermountain Health Care's (IHC) flagship hospital when it opened in October 2007. The new campus serves as home base for Intermountain Life Flight and other major programs such as organ transplantation, artificial heart research, trauma care, and many other programs previously housed at LDS Hospital.
Intermountain Medical Center (IMC) is built on a 100-acre campus that is centrally located in the Salt Lake Valley. The three components of IMC's mission - the science of medicine, the spirit of caring, and the miracle of healing -are delivered in state-of-the-art facilities surrounded by an environment of beauty.
IMC is the largest hospital in the Intermountain West and is a major adult referral center for six surrounding states and more than 75 regional health care institutions. Medical education and research facilities and clinics are also on the campus, as well as physician office space. Intermountain Medical Center is a teaching hospital - working in conjunction with the University of Utah School of Medicine and area nursing colleges.
Medicine Wards: IMC has four general medicine ward teams, all of which are supervised by full-time teaching hospitalists.
Shock-Trauma ICU: The 24-bed STICU consists of three housestaff teams, supervised by a pulmonary/critical care fellow as well as full-time academic faculty who take in-house call along with the residents.
ER: The IMC Emergency Room has 54 beds with an estimated 70,000 patient visits per year, servicing high level of acuity and trauma.
IHC has extraordinary support personnel and associated resources and is an international leader in using computers to improve health care. Featured in the NEJM (338(4);1998), the computerized medical records system was first started in the 1950’s and provides unmatched patient information to assist in both clinical and research capacities.
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