We train residents to be competent internists who are prepared for outpatient primary care practice, hospitalist medicine practice, or fellowship. Our residents are trained to be excellent medical educators and are provided opportunities to achieve excellence in scholarship. This program fosters a learning environment that promotes personal and professional wellness.
To prepare competent and compassionate internists who provide high-quality care to diverse patient populations and actively engage in lifelong learning.
The program consists of 36 months of training in internal medicine leading to ABIM board eligibility. Ambulatory care accounts for approximately 33% of the overall training. Rotations are scheduled in a 4+2 model, in which residents alternate between four-week inpatient blocks and two-week ambulatory blocks.
Our program is an integrated program with rotations at Sanford USD Medical Center and Avera Health as well as a variety of private practices in the Sioux Falls, SD area.
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Explore Sioux FallsThe program offers the best balance between quality training and self-learning. Also, the program strives for resident wellness and you will be offered the best work-life balance during your three years at the program.
I have found a great program, with tons of support, and amazing learning opportunities.
This program has helped me grow into a better physician, speaker, and thinker. It is a great feeling to know that your program is looking out for you and will try to help you in any way possible.
The USD Internal Medicine Residency program is a wonderful place with a very pleasant working environment. Everyone including the faculty, nursing staff, case management, therapists, palliative care team, residents, medical students and patients themselves work as a team, complimenting each other work to ensure best patient care. Program offers great teaching and research opportunities.
The internal medicine residency program at USD is a top notch program. The faculty is not only very involved but also easily approachable. In addition to providing quality education, the program also focuses on resident well being. Never have I felt overworked or overwhelmed and the residents live a well balanced life with plenty of time to enjoy the beauty that South Dakota has to offer.
I love my residency program. I have enough autonomy with good supervision. Dedicated time for didactics and faculty amazes me.
Most friendly and enjoyable intense learning experience.
Our program is in a unique position being a major referral center for surrounding rural communities and the urban center. As a result, we see a wide variety of pathology and rare complex disease. Our institutions provide a collegial environment with complete subspeciatly coverage.
The USD Internal Medicine program provides residents to be successful in acheiving their career goals. We assign them a mentor for the residency who meets with them on a consistent basis. This mentor connects them with physicians who are leaders in the residents' specialty of interest.
Our residents have guided our efforts to present our philosophy of education to you. We have always been told that the in-person visit “seals the deal” and we are hopeful that the “virtual visit” will accomplish the same goal this year.
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