Richmond University Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Richmond University Medical Center's Internal Medicine Residency is a community-based, hospital-sponsored program serving the Staten Island population, with an institutional identity built around community accountability ("part of the fabric of Staten Island") rather than tertiary academic prestige. The curriculum is structured around a comprehensive 13-block subspecialty rotation schedule with daily protected didactics, mandatory >85% lecture attendance, monthly board-style quizzes, and a dedicated PGY-3 board review course, reflecting a strong institutional focus on ABIM first-attempt certification success. A mandatory research curriculum with biostatistics training and resident-led QI projects is embedded but appears supportive of clinical training rather than a driver of physician-scientist output; leadership includes several program-grown faculty (director and associate director are both internal graduates), suggesting a program that values continuity, internal mentorship, and hospitalist/clinical medicine careers. The heavy emphasis on procedural orientation, QI/patient safety infrastructure, and wellness programming points to a program oriented toward producing well-rounded community internists and hospitalists rather than subspecialty fellowship-track researchers.