Morehouse School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

Morehouse School of Medicine's Internal Medicine Residency is an HBCU-affiliated, safety-net academic program training residents almost entirely at Grady Memorial Hospital and the Atlanta VA Medical Center, exposing trainees to a high-acuity, underserved, and predominantly African American patient population with a heavy inpatient burden (six to seven months of wards in PGY-1, resident-led teams carrying 16-20 patients). The program's explicit mission centers on eliminating health care disparities and serving areas of greatest need, reinforced by MSM's broader institutional infrastructure in cancer health equity, HIV/AIDS care and training (GA AETC), and minority health research (RCMI, Cancer Health Equity Institute), giving research a visible but supportive rather than mandatory role in resident development. Career outcomes are described as flexible, spanning subspecialty fellowship, hospital medicine, and international medicine, indicating a program that builds broad clinical competence rather than funneling residents toward a single track. The structured progression toward senior supervisory roles over interns and students, combined with Q5 call and continuity clinic every fifth week, suggests the program values residents who can handle high-volume, resource-limited inpatient medicine while maintaining a service and equity-driven orientation.