Griffin Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Griffin Hospital's categorical internal medicine program is a small community hospital-based training experience distinguished by its Planetree patient-centered care philosophy and formal academic affiliation with Yale, which allows residents to complete subspecialty elective rotations at a tertiary university hospital and attend Yale-based conferences and rounds. The program also runs combined Internal Medicine/Preventive Medicine and Master of Public Health tracks, reflecting an institutional emphasis on population health, lifestyle medicine, and preventive care alongside traditional inpatient/outpatient IM training. Alumni outcomes are heavily weighted toward hospitalist positions and primary care practice, with a meaningful minority pursuing fellowships (cardiology, GI, endocrinology, ID, geriatrics, heme-onc) at academic centers, indicating the program supports fellowship-bound residents without positioning itself as a fellowship pipeline. Research is present and encouraged, with resident-authored publications and posters across preventive medicine, general IM, and subspecialty topics, but output is modest relative to a dedicated research infrastructure, suggesting research is a supported activity rather than a core institutional identity.