Indiana University School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is the largest and third-oldest Med-Peds program in the country, a university-based, tertiary/quaternary training environment integrated across five Indianapolis teaching hospitals including Riley Children's Hospital, Eskenazi Health (safety-net), IU Health, and the VA, serving a referral base of 6.4 million people. The program is built around dual-department integration (Medicine and Pediatrics) with more than 30 combined subspecialties, scholarly tracks (clinician-educator, global health, healthy outcomes, leadership, research, advocacy), and an NIH-funded I-StARR pathway that grooms primary-care residents for physician-scientist careers. Research infrastructure is substantial, with Pediatrics ranked top-ten nationally in NIH funding and Medicine's General Internal Medicine division among the largest academic primary-care divisions, though research is offered as elective enrichment rather than mandated for all residents. Leadership language emphasizes balance between broad clinical exposure (infancy to old age, underserved to complex subspecialty care) and a tight-knit culture despite scale, valuing residents who are active learners fitting into a large, socially cohesive cohort with flexible, individualized career trajectories spanning primary care, hospital medicine, subspecialty fellowship, and global health.