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Internal Medicine Residency Commitment To Health Equity

The Internal Medicine Residency program in NYU Langone's Department of Medicine is committed to recruiting, training, and mentoring all physicians. Our patients come from a variety of backgrounds, with a common right to high-quality medical care. To provide them the best care and succeed in the advancement of medicine, we strive to support and train physicians of all backgrounds.

Our Strategy

Our program has long had a commitment advancing health equity and creating a culture of inclusion. This includes:

resident and faculty development through a combination of lectures workshops, and simulation experiences

ensuring through our feedback processes that all residents feel welcome in our community and learning environment

supporting research through the Department of Medicine's Farber Program in Health Equity, including house staff-specific grant opportunities

DIMOND Program

Established in 2000, the DIMOND Program promotes inclusive culture among faculty and house staff, while facilitating their personal and professional growth. DIMOND is heavily involved in our residency program and participates in recruitment, mentorship, curriculum, and wellness.

Farber Health Equity Research Fellowship

In 2021, the Farber Program among launched a Health Equity Research Fellowship. All Department of Medicine residents and fellows are invited to submit proposals for areas including basic science, clinical research, quality improvement, medical education, and health sciences research. Each year, four projects are selected to receive a $10,000 grant.

2023–24 Farber Health Equity Research Fellowship Awardees

"Identifying Barriers to Care in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease"Sharon Klein, MD

"Evaluation and Quality Improvement of Rapid Antiretroviral Therapy Linkage for Patients with HIV at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue"Shree Sundaresh, MD

"Assessment of the Use and Effectiveness of Obesity Pharmacotherapies for Weight Loss and Identifying Racial/Ethnic Disparities Across Groups"Diana L. Torres Pinzon, MD

"Impact of Implementing a Dedicated Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Service at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue on Heart Failure Related Outcomes"Erin Flattery, MD

2022–23 Farber Health Equity Research Fellowship Awardees

"Associations between APOL1 risk variants and single cell transcriptomics in Kidney Tissue from Patients of African Ancestry with Lupus Nephritis" Phillip Carlucci, MD

"Measuring the Impact of a First Year Medical Student Health Equity Curriculum on Behaviors during the Clerkship Year" Marcus Hines, MD, PhD

"Multi-lingual Videos to Improve Colonoscopy Preparation at the Sunset Park FHC" Ixel Cervera, MD Leora Aquino, MD

"Demographic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Healthcare Utilization among Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux" Moniyka Sachar, MD Cristina Fernandez, MD, MPH

2021–22 Farber Health Equity Research Fellowship Awardees

"Disparities in Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Complications"Christina Kaul, MD, Fellow, Infectious DiseasesJenny Yang, MD

"Determining Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Best Practices for Transgender Populations Through Participatory Action Research"Samuel Dubin, MDGabrielle Mayer, MD

"Virtual, Longitudinal, In-Depth Teaching of Anti-Racism to Residents"Blen Girmay, MDElaine de Leon, MD, MHS

"Addressing Barriers to Healthcare Among Cisgender Gay and Bisexual Men Using Anabolic-Androgen Steroid (AAS)"Eric Kutscher, MDArslaan Ari Arshed, MD, MS, MHA

Internal Medicine Residency Curriculum

As part of our residency curriculum, we address topics related to health equity. These concepts and associated skills are essential in internal medicine. Learn more about our Internal Medicine Residency curriculum.

Contact Us

For more information on our efforts, please contact us:

Renee L. Williams, MD, MHPEAssociate Chair for Health Equity, Department of MedicineSpecialty: Gastroenterologyrenee.Williams@nyulangone.Org

Richard E. Greene, MD, MHPEFaculty MentorDirector, Health Equity Education, Office of Diversity AffairsAssociate Program Director, Primary Care TrackSpecialty: General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovationrichard.Greene@nyulangone.Org

Christian L. Torres, MDDirector, DIMONDHouse Staff Mentoring, Office of Diversity AffairsSpecialty: General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovationchristian.Torres@nyulangone.Org

Disclaimer: NYU Langone's programs do not include preferences, quotas, or set asides, or otherwise exclude anyone based on race, sex, or other protected categories.

Internal Medicine Residency

The Montgomery Internal Medicine Residency Program provides high-caliber graduate medical education for trainees seeking diverse clinical experiences in both inpatient and outpatient settings, and in subspecialty and general medicine services.

Residents practice in a rich training environment and are exposed to a diverse patient population in a variety of practice settings. Our primary teaching hospital, Baptist Medical Center South, is a community-based facility with nationally-recognized cardiology, cancer and stroke services. Our residents treat patients in the UAB Montgomery Internal Medicine Clinic, offering continuity of care for patients seeking hospital follow ups.

Our growing preliminary year program provides trainees with great foundation in general medicine and prepares them to take the next steps in their medical career. With the exception of continuity clinic, our preliminary interns receive the same level of rigorous training as our categorical interns.

We endeavor to find the perfect balance between resident autonomy and faculty supervision for our residents to become competent, compassionate and independent physicians. Our goal is to graduate outstanding physicians with a love of life-long learning and the tools to continue learning for life.

Three Crosses Gains Internal Medicine Residency Program

Mike CookFor the Bulletin

The group that accredits graduate medical training programs for physicians in the U.S. Gave its approval recently to Three Crosses Regional Hospital for a new residency program in internal medicine, which will begin with 24 residents over the next three years.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education approved accreditation for an internal medicine residency at Three Crosses in late January. Once accredited, the program received about

4,000 medical students from the U.S. And other countries. Out of that, hospital staff interviewed 60 and selected eight applicants for its first year, said Dr. Muhammad Owais Khan, a residency program director, said. The program will include 24 residents over three years, he said.

Three Crosses Regional Hospital's new internal medicine residency program is "a lifeline for healthcare in our city and our county," Khan said.

Khan said the eight chosen are a diverse group and noted that most speak Spanish, which he called "vital" since Las Cruces is more than 50% Hispanic. The new residents will be welcomed to Las Cruces in July, Khan said.

The goal for the residency program is to train "quality physicians who are able to practice in-patient and out-patient medicine locally," said Khan, a native of Pakistan who came to Las Cruces in 2020.

"I want to locally train the physicians and keep them here," he said.

Three Crosses joins Memorial Medical Center and MountainView Regional Medical Center in having a residency program, Khan said, which means Las Cruces will be able to provide more primary care doctors "to alleviate the shortage and get everyone the same quality of care so they don't have to go outside Las Cruces."

Three Crosses residents will be trained by "very, very talented leadership" at the hospital, he said. The doctors who will lead the training are "board-certified internal medicine physicians," said Khan. Collectively, they speak seven different languages, he said, including Spanish.

"We are very blessed," said Khan, who, in addition to holding an M.D. Degree, also possesses a master's degree in business and health care law. He also is board certified in quality assurance and utilization review and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Society of Hospital Medicine. Kahn serves on the faculty of Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine in Las Cruces.

The 46-bed Three Crosses Regional Hospital opened in 2020 at 2560 Samaritan Drive. It specializes in cardiology, internal medicine and primary care, emergency medicine, constructive and reconstructive surgery, nephrology, endocrinology, orthopedics, general surgery, pain management, gynecology and vascular surgery, and neurosurgery and gastroenterology are available to consult in the hospital, Khan said.

Keywords Three Crosses Regional Hospital, Accreditation Council, internal medicine residency program

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