Dartmouth- Hitchcock-Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital is a university-affiliated academic internal medicine program based at an academic medical center in rural New Hampshire, with training extended to the White River Junction VA and affiliated community sites, giving residents exposure to both tertiary/quaternary referral care and rural/community medicine. The program supports a broad range of resident career paths—primary care, hospital medicine, all IM subspecialties, medical education, research, and advocacy—reflecting an identity that is academically rigorous but not narrowly subspecialty-fellowship-focused. Research infrastructure is substantial and translational, anchored by named centers (Dartmouth Cancer Center, Heart and Vascular Center, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice) and section-based research programs, indicating research is institutionally embedded and available but not mandatory for all residents. The program explicitly values team-oriented, empathetic residents comfortable with rural/outdoor living and describes itself as drawing a mix of US MD, DO, and IMG trainees into a collegial, geographically distinct environment.