Scripps Mercy Graduate Medical Education
Thank you for your interest in the Scripps Mercy Hospital’s residency programs. Our website provides specific information about our programs, Scripps Mercy Hospital and Mercy Clinic. We are the oldest and largest hospital in San Diego County, with 700 acute-care licensed beds on two campuses (San Diego and Chula Vista). Established in 1890, Scripps Mercy has a long legacy of serving the community, blending medical excellence with the care and compassion modeled by the Sisters of Mercy. In 1995 [then] Mercy Hospital became part of the Scripps Health, which now comprises five hospital campuses and numerous outpatient clinics.
With 29,000 admissions annually, we are committed to state-of-the-art, evidence-based practice that is personalized for each individual patient. Our busy Emergency Department sees more than 90,000 patients annually, of whom more than 25 percent are admitted to the hospital, reflecting the high acuity of our hospital.
Located in Hillcrest, just a mile from San Diego’s beautiful, thriving downtown and in view of the ocean, the San Diego campus of Scripps Mercy is ideally situated for access to all that the city has to offer. We are passionately committed to evidence-based performance improvement and are distinguished from our peers by:- Being named as a hospital that is “Creating Better Health through Innovation” (VHA Health Foundation, 2004)
- Operating the longest-standing medical education program in San Diego
- Having internal medicine residents who consistently score among the top eight percent of the nation’s residents on internal medicine board certification examinations and have achieved a 100-percent pass rate every year since 1995
- Operating Mercy Clinic, which provides primary and specialty care to more than 30,000 low-income patients annually and has been staffed continuously since 1965 by the hospital’s residents,
- Being designated a Level I Trauma Center and having the city’s preeminent trauma prevention education program
- Successfully placing all of our internal medicine graduates seeking fellowships every consecutive year since 1984
Our hospital and our programs in Categorical Internal Medicine, Categorical Family Medicine and Transitional Year Residency have received accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Our Internal Medicine Program is one of 21 in the country participating in the ACGME’s Educational Innovations Project.
The mission of Graduate Medical Education at Scripps Mercy is to train young physicians, medical students and other health care workers in the art and science of medicine. We assist them in discovering and manifesting our common values of service, compassion, integrity, professionalism and stewardship. In so doing, we are educating and training the physicians and others who will care for our loved ones in the years to come. We look forward to receiving your application through the ERAS online residency application system.
Sincerely,
David J. Shaw, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.C.
Director of Medical Education