Detroit Wayne County Health Authority Authority Health GME Consortium Program

Internal Medicine Analyst Verified · Aug 31, 2026

Detroit Wayne County Health Authority Authority Health GME Consortium Program

Detroit Wayne County Health Authority Authority Health GME Consortium Program is a residency program specializing in Internal Medicine, located in Detroit, Michigan, directed by Felicia E. Randolph, MD, MBA and coordinated by Samantha Reicher. The program accepts applications through October 31, 2026 and holds an accreditation status of Continued. International Medical Graduates interested in this program may contact the program coordinator directly at sreicher-gme@authorityhealth.org or (313) 346-5235. IMGPrep analysts have verified and compiled this program’s IMG acceptance rate, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 score requirements, Visa Sponsorship Policy, graduation year cutoff, and ECFMG certificate requirements — available to IMGPrep subscribers.

Program Identity & Fit

Authority Health's Internal Medicine Residency is a Teaching Health Center (THC) program embedded in a HRSA-funded GME consortium explicitly designed to train primary care physicians for medically underserved, high-shortage areas of Detroit and Wayne County. Training is deliberately community- and ambulatory-heavy, spanning FQHCs, small private practices, and community mental health agencies, with inpatient blocks at affiliated hospitals (Sinai-Grace, Detroit VA, Ascension Providence, Trinity Health Oakland) rather than a single quaternary flagship. A required two-year Certificate in Population Health and Health Equity (with University of Michigan School of Public Health) and mandatory community medicine/CQI scholarly projects signal that population-level thinking and health-equity engagement are core competencies, not electives, alongside recurring "+1 Week" nonclinical community service days. Graduate outcomes (57% remain in Michigan, 62% into underserved/shortage-area jobs, majority into ambulatory roles, modest 19% fellowship rate) confirm the program values and produces community-based primary care/hospitalist internists rather than subspecialists.

Who it fits

An applicant whose ERAS narrative centers on longitudinal community health work, health equity, and a commitment to practicing primary care/hospitalist medicine in underserved urban or shortage-area settings, rather than one oriented toward subspecialty fellowship or high-acuity academic tertiary care.

Research intensity

Low - scholarly activity is required but framed as quality-improvement and population-health project work rather than hypothesis-driven biomedical research.

Career orientation

Mixed - Primary Care, Community Practice.

Important

The program states it does not consider applicants who have been out of clinical practice for two years or more, and audition/observership rotations are offered only through its family medicine program, not internal medicine.

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Internal Medicine

Deadline 10/31/2026

16 days left

Accreditation Status Continued

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