About the Program
More than 60 percent of the residents in the Scripps Clinic Internal Medicine Residency program remain at Scripps after their residency either as fellows or staff.
Scripps Clinic and Scripps Green Hospital are surrounded by the world’s largest collection of biotechnology corporations and research institutes within the same neighborhood. Overlooking the Pacific Ocean in La Jolla, California, Scripps Clinic and Scripps Green Hospital share a campus with The Scripps Research Institute, the nation’s largest non-university biomedical research institute.
Located next door is the Scripps Translational Science Institute, Scripps Genomic Medicine, and the West Wireless Health Institute.
At Scripps Clinic there are several Centers of Excellence, which bring together some of the nation’s leading clinicians, scientists and graduate medical education trainees.
Each residency class consists of 10 categorical residents and two physician-scientist track trainees of a total resident complement of 36 within the program. 28-30 US Naval Medical Center Categorical and Preliminary IM residents also rotate onto our ward, creating a much larger collaboration within the program.
Providing additional support, third- and fourth-year medical students from across the country serve as sub-interns on the inpatient services all year round.
Scripps Clinic has a number of programs which bring together some of the nation’s leading clinicians, scientists, and GME trainees:- Asthma and allergic diseases center
- Brain research and treatment center
- Diabetes and endocrinology
- Scripps Cancer Center at Scripps Clinic and Scripps Green Hospital
- Heart, lung and vascular center:
- Digestive and liver diseases
- Scripps Center for Organ and Cell Transplantation
- Shiley Sport and Health Center
- Sports medicine center
- Stone treatment center
- Scripps Blood and Marrow Transplant Center
- Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine
Scripps Clinic and Scripps Green Hospital offer graduate fellowships in the following areas:
- Allergy and immunology
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Cardiovascular imaging
- Heart failure
- Diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism
- Gastroenterology
- Hematology and medical oncology
- Hematopathology
- Hepatology
- Interventional cardiology
- Orthopedics: lower extremity reconstruction
- Procedural dermatology/Mohs surgery
- Rheumatology
- Sports medicine
- Advanced laparoscopic surgery
- Vascular Surgery
- General surgery
- Emergency medicine
- Head and neck
- Radiology
- Obstetrics and gynecology
Many clinicians who have joined the staff have been recruited from prestigious academic positions across the country. These clinicians continue their teaching interests at Scripps Clinic while maintaining clinical or basic science research activities and clinical care.
Now more than ever, an increasing number of physicians are attracted to the group practice model. Scripps Clinic Medical Group is particularly desirable because of the favorable mix of patient care, education, and research, and with the highly successful and collegial practice environment.
There are a number of substantial differences between the Scripps Green Hospital and some major university hospitals:
- By design, the program is relatively small, with 12 house officers per class. This ensures a high faculty to house officer ratio with considerable individual attention, ample opportunity for procedures, and progressive responsibility.
- All of our teaching faculty actively engage in patient care and attend patients daily in their offices in or adjacent to the hospital building.
- The staffs of all clinical divisions and departments work together, creating an efficient team approach to patient care.
- There are no primarily scientific faculty members who are “pulled” from their labs to supervise the clinical trainees. Rather, all clinical teaching faculty are clinical experts who enjoy the practice and teaching of medicine.
- The experiences of our house officers are broad and the residents tailor their curricula to best suit their anticipated needs.
- The residents learn in a unique environment, combining a large managed care and government insured patient base with an equally large secondary and tertiary referral practice.
- During 36 months of training, a minimum of 18 months is spent practicing inpatient care: there are 7 months of required outpatient service. The remaining 11 months can be tailored toward the individual resident’s goals, emphasizing critical care, outpatient primary care, hospital based medicine, or sub-specialty training, or research.
- We enhance the resident’s educational experience by expanding the number and diversity of our training sites both locally and internationally. The largest portion of expense associated with international assignments is carried by the training program.
- The program also has a well-developed written curriculum with strong didactic and self-taught components. The curriculum reviews standard medical pathophysiology and treatment as well as the burgeoning disciplines of medical informatics, medical ethics, epidemiology and research design, genomics and proteomics, medical economics, managed care, quality assurance, adolescent medicine, women’s medicine, geriatrics, hospice care, alternative/complementary medicine and much more.
If we may be of further assistance during the application process, please contact the department of graduate medical education at 858-554-3236.