University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

OU's Internal Medicine Residency sits within Oklahoma's most comprehensive academic medical system, offering a moderate-sized categorical (20/year) and med-peds program that blends inpatient medicine, critical care, and ambulatory training with explicit attention to individualized career planning. The program's stated mission centers on developing physicians and health leaders with a special focus on underserved and Oklahoman populations, and it structurally guarantees every resident a scholarly track (medical education, health disparities, global health, research, or health leadership) rather than treating research as optional. With a broad fellowship infrastructure across the Department of Medicine (cardiology, GI, hem-onc, pulm/critical care, nephrology, ID, endocrinology, geriatrics/palliative, rheumatology) and a >95% subspecialty match rate cited for those pursuing fellowship, the program is built to support both direct-to-practice generalists and subspecialty-bound trainees equally. Distinctive features include a Global Health and Social Justice Program, POCUS training, an Intern School/Fellowship Boot Camp onboarding structure, and a Stewart Wolf Research Day showcasing resident scholarship.