Medical Student University of Our Program Clerkship Opportunities at Birmingham

Interested in a 4th year visiting student The UAB Internal Medicine Residency rotation? Training Program offers three tracks of Internal Medicine training through the National Resident We offer a variety of inpatient and consult Matching Program, with the three-year months in: Residency Program categorical track, providing optional choices for training in the Primary Care or Women’s • Cardiology Health Tracks. • Endocrinology About Birmingham • Gastroenterology and Hepatology • Internal Medicine Categorical • General Medicine (UAB, VA, and CGH) • ABIM Research Pathway Birmingham, AL was founded in 1871. In the • Hematology-Oncology • Medicine / Pediatrics 1950s and 1960s it was recognized as the • Infectious Diseases major center for the Civil Rights Movement, • Curriculum Nephrology including such monumentous occasions as: • Palliative Care PGY-1: the “Freedom Riders” and Dr. Martin Luther • Pulmonary and Critical Care • One weekly continuity clinic King Jr’s “Project C.” Currently, Birmingham • Rheumatology • 9 ward months: MICU, CCU, University is a thriving, progressive metropolis with , county hospital, VA hospital, and UAB nestled in its center.

See details at: subspecialty months (GI, Heme/Onc, Demographics http://medicine.uab.edu/education/48419 Pulmonary, and Renal) • 73% African American Focusing on Diversity PGY-2/PGY-3: • 24% Caucasian • Two weekly continuity clinics • 2% Hispanic Funding is available to qualified applicants • 6 ward and 6 non-ward months (mini- • to cover travel expenses and lodging. 0.2% Native American Dr. Anupam Agarwal fellowships, research electives and Please contact us at [email protected] for • Median income = $27,000 (city area) Interim Chairman, Department of Medicine consult months) scholarship details. • Population = 1,2 million (metro area)

Dr. Gustavo Heudebert Program Director Attractions Internal Medicine Residency Program ABIM Research Pathway: • Birmingham Civil Rights Institute • 2 Years Clinical Medicine Dr. Lisa Willett • Birmingham Zoo • Guaranteed Fellowship Match Co- Program Director • Vulcan Park Internal Medicine Residency Program Internal Medicine Residency Program • State-Of-The-Art Research in your • Birmingham Museum of Art BDB 327 Fellowship Subspecialty • 1808 7th Avenue South Dr. Jason Morris Botanical Gardens Birmingham, AL 35233 Clerkship Director Internal Medicine http://im.dom.uab.edu/

Faculty Profiles Where We Work Resident Profiles

Carlos Estrada, MD, MS Ranked among the Top 10 in Primary Care, AIDS, and Shawna Reshard, MD Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia * Xavier University of Louisiana Henry Ford Hospital (Internal Medicine) health services administration , UAB University Hospital is University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Henry Ford Hospital, ’s major general/acute and tertiary care center Michigan (General Internal Medicine and the centerpiece of the UAB Medical Center. A Fellowship) for more than 50 years, UAB Hospital is

licensed for 908 beds. “Being on faculty at UAB is enjoyable because of the diversity of “I was attracted to UAB because of the strong and balanced * the workforce. Having faculty members and residents from U.S. News and World Report, 2011 programs of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Since starting different backgrounds allows us to better identify with patients, residency at UAB, I have not been disappointed. UAB has it all--- in turn leading to improved patient care and greater patient excellent medicine, enthusiastic teaching, and great people who satisfaction.” are passionate about patient care.”

Richard Sims, MD Harvard Medical School Latesha Elopre, MD Harlem Hospital (Internal Medicine) Florida State University University of Pennsylvania Hospital The Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center University of Florida School of Medicine (Geriatrics) (BVAMC), structurally connected to UAB Hospital through

the VA Research Wing, houses 135 beds, 56 of which are assigned to the medical service. The BVAMC is a major site for the clinical teaching activities of the Department of “I look forward everyday to teaching residents and medical “In any community, physician trust and faith are of paramount students alike, and truly believe that a diverse housestaff leads Medicine. BVAMC physicians hold full faculty appointment importance to high quality healthcare. At UAB, the majority of to an enhanced educational experience for all.” at UAB, providing educational services as attending patients treated are underrepresented minorities and we strive physicians to the general medicine and consultative to enhance the doctor-patient relationship by producing strong, services. culturally sensitive physicians.” Raegan Durant, MD, MPH Johns Hopkins University (Internal Medicine) Shani Woolard, MD Harvard Medical School (General Internal Duke University Medicine Fellowship) University of Maryland School of Medicine The municipal hospital for Jefferson County, Cooper Green Mercy Hospital provides a broad range of primary, secondary, and tertiary care. The hospital is adjacent to “ I was originally drawn to UAB by the extensive research opportunities and nurturing professional environment, and have the UAB Medical Center. Cooper Green Hospital’s internal been extremely satisfied during my time here. My research medicine section complements UAB Hospital’s educational “The variety of hospital settings in which UAB residents serve, interest lies in studying heart failure in minority patients, and I programs by promoting efficient management of the the vast array of international opportunities, and the diversity of have been able to explore this issue thoroughly with full support complex social and medical needs of a diverse group of the patient population of Birmingham, AL are what have made from my colleagues.” patients. my experience in UAB’s internal medicine program truly enjoyable.”