Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

BIDMC's Internal Medicine Residency is a Harvard-affiliated academic program built around a Firm structure that provides small-group mentorship from Firm Chiefs while residents rotate across BIDMC, Dana-Farber, the West Roxbury VA, and Beth Israel Lahey Health community sites. The program offers eight formal tracks and pathways, including Clinician Educator and Physician Scientist tracks, reflecting a deliberate effort to tailor training toward both academic subspecialty careers and generalist practice. A distinguishing feature is its long-standing, deeply institutionalized global health infrastructure - most notably the Botswana Global Health Program at Scottish Livingstone Hospital, active since 2011, offering resident electives and a dedicated post-residency fellowship - alongside Harvard-based global health coursework and additional international collaboratives in anesthesia and OB/GYN. The program values residents who can function as clinician-educators, engage in quality improvement and mentored research, and are prepared to work with relative independence in both high-resource academic and resource-limited international settings.