Residency Program

Internal Medicine

Rochester General Hospital

Director’s Letter

Finding the right residency program that meets your educational and career goals can be a daunting challenge. You want to get into a residency program that helps you develop into a skillful physician, accomplish your career goals, and supports you during the ups and downs of residency/life. You want a program that achieves the right balance of strong clinical experience, didactics, and research opportunities. I humbly submit we are that program. Our record speaks for itself. Once you talk to our residents, program staff, and faculty, you will see our passion for each other, our patients, hospital, community, and medicine.

I look forward to meeting you soon.

Dr. Nagesh Jadhav
Program Director

Our RRH community strives to cultivate and promote diversity and inclusion at all levels, empowering each team member to show up as themselves daily.

We believe that our collective diversity in backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, coupled with an inclusive and just environment that harnesses and celebrates that diversity is fundamental in our efforts to improve the health and well-being of all our team members, patients, and communities in which we are privileged to serve.

Welcome to the Home of High-Quality Internal Medicine Education

Look to us for the highest quality education. We sharpen your clinical skills, teach you to teach, cultivate your scholarship potential and invest in your success.

Curriculum

PGY-1

ROTATION	WEEKS
Floors	11
Overnight (cross coverage)	2
ICU/CICU (days/nights)	10
ED	0
Vacation	4
Geriatrics/Palliative Care	0
Electives	10
Ambulatory	11
Float	2
Night Admitting	2
TOTAL	52

PGY-2

ROTATION	WEEKS
Floors	6
Overnight Blocks (cross coverage)	2
ICU/CICU (days/nights)	7
ED	0
Vacation	4
Geriatrics/Palliative Care	2
Electives	18
Ambulatory	11
Float	2
TOTAL	52

PGY-3

ROTATION	WEEKS
Floors	4
Overnight Blocks	0
ICU/CICU (days/nights)	7
ED	4
Vacation	4
Geriatrics/Palliative Care	0
Electives	18
Ambulatory	11
Float	2
Night Admitting	2
TOTAL	52

4+1 Block Schedule with Clinic every 5th week

* This is a sample schedule actual schedule may vary depending on curriculm requirements

Program Highlights

Clinical Experience

Our program gives you a robust clinical experience. Rochester General Hospital is a 528 bed hospital with one of the busiest emergency departments in the country. The hospital has been named one of the top 100 best cardiac centers in the country and U.S. News & World Report has ranked Rochester General Hospital as the top hospital in Rochester. We have a new Ambulatory Center, a new state-of-the-art MICU, and a dedicated CCU – enhancing clinical and cardiac care and exposing residents to cutting edge medicine. We have Fellowships in Cardiology, Hematology Oncology, GI, ID, Palliative Care, Geriatrics, Endocrinology, and Clinical Informatics in full swing. We have also recently added a Lifestyle Medicine certification track. Our graduates are superbly prepared for the next step in their career.

Faculty

You will be working side by side with renowned, experienced faculty in hospitalist medicine, primary care, and subspecialty care. They are here because they love to teach. Many have made major contributions to the medical literature and are at the top of their field.

Academics

Our system of 3 resident reports (overnight, intern and senior reports) means you are not lost in the crowd: you get individualized teaching throughout your residency. Our reports teach evidence-based medicine and critical evaluation of the medical literature. We have a weekly Academic Half Day: 4 hours of truly protected time for team-based learning, didactics, board review, and wellness. Our Case Report Curriculum walks residents through the process of writing up and submitting a case report for publication. Our residents can take a Biostatistics rotation to enhance their skills in systemic review and meta-analysis. We also offer an Evidence Based Medicine elective which gives our residents a solid foundation. We are committed to resident scholarly activity and research. We offer data and donuts for interns every month which is one protected hour to discuss a landmark article.

Research & Publication

There are ample opportunities to do research and contribute to the medical literature. Our program has a reputation for achievement in this area; we offer many options for research projects and abstracts, mentored by our faculty and supervised by an associate program director dedicated to this task.

Ambulatory Care

Our new, entirely resident run clinic, is at the heart of our commitment to teach primary care and serve our community. Daily teaching sessions enhance this experience. In addition, our “majors” program allows you to spend some of your ambulatory experience in a specialty of your choice.

Quick Facts

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Preparation for the Next Phase of Your Career

After graduating from our program, you will have the opportunity to advance your career; be it primary care, hospitalist, or fellowship. Our majors program, research and publication opportunities, a close relationship with faculty, an option to do an away elective, and the fellowship opportunities at RGH will enhance your chances for placement in fellowship if that is your goal. However, many of our graduates choose to stay on at RGH as hospitalists, fellows, or work in the community as primary care physicians. Rochester is a hard place to leave.

Innovation

We have a 6-week boot camp to orient you to our system. Our interdisciplinary simulation program is always evolving. We offer a point of care ultrasound program, Major program, Academic Half Day and Case Report Curriculum. We have successfully implemented Addiction Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, and Hospitalist electives. There is opportunity to create new electives; one resident worked to create an informatics elective, and it has been successful. We are open to our residents’ ideas, together we continue to move forward!

A Wonderful Place to Live

Rochester suburbs provide great schools, culture and convenience, and Western New York is beautiful all four seasons – even winter! The commutes are a fraction of bigger cities and living is inexpensive. Again, a hard place to leave.

We Are Family

In the right environment, residency is an exhilarating experience where friends of a lifetime are made. Our residents and faculty are a diverse group that works as a team and support each other as family. Residency is not easy but we have a lot of fun along the way.

Program AIMS

Prepare our residents to care for patients now and in the future with a constantly evolving curriculum
Recruit a diverse group of the finest physicians to our internal medicine residency
Promote the well-being of residents and support them in their career goals
Train our residents to embrace a culture of safety and quality
Provide our residents with opportunities for academic achievement
Give our faculty the support and skills they need to guide our residents

Scholarly Activity

Rochester General Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program does not permit observerships or shadowing as all rotations are in areas where we have learners scheduled.

How to Apply

ERAS is a service which transmits residency applications, recommendation letters, Dean’s Letters, transcripts, and other supporting credentials from medical schools to residency program directors using the Internet.

Applicants to the Rochester General Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program are required to apply to the program using ERAS.

For the 2025 ERAS® cycle, our program strongly encourages all applicants to complete a supplemental ERAS application, offered through the AAMC’s ERAS program. Applicants also will be required to complete the MyERAS application.

Deadline for Application: November 15, 2024

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Program

24

R1 Positions

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NRMP Number

Criteria and Requirements

We have established the following criteria for interviewing graduates of non-LCME approved medical schools.

Experience in the United States is not a requirement to apply, but is highly valued.

Preference will be given to those applicants who have been clinically active since medical school graduation

Sponsorship of J1 and H1 VISAS will be subject to current immigration regulations. If the applicant qualifies for an H1B VISA, but the program is unable to secure the VISA in time for the program start date, the applicant must be willing to accept a J1 VISA.

Please Note: New York State Department of Health regulations limit non-LCME accredited international medical school graduates from participating in New York State residency programs if their training has included more than 12 weeks of clinical clerkships outside of the country in which the medical school is located unless the NYS Education Department has approved the school.

A current list of the approved medical schools can be found on the NYSED website: NYS Medicine: License Requirements (nysed.gov).

We Require:

Completed Application Form (CAF) 5 (also printable in CV Format)
Personal statement
Transcript(s) from your Medical School(s)
Dean’s Letter
Three letters of recommendation
Successful completion of Step 1 (pass), and Step 2 CK (minimum score 225). DO Candidates should also have successful completion of COMLEX 1 & 2 or Step 1 and Step 2 CK.
ECFMG Certification required for all IMG’s, if you have not taken Step 2 CS, refer to the ECFMG pathway requirements. View Additional Information

The program deviates from these criteria only for applicants referred by faculty or housestaff based on personal knowledge of the applicant’s clinical skills and judgment.

Information for Applicants Selected to Interview

Interviews

All interviews will be held virtually this season. Our interview season will run from November through January.

If you are selected to interview, you will receive an invitation to interview via email. This email will contain detailed instructions for scheduling your interview.

Please do not contact the Program Office to inquire about the status of your application. We are unable to provide specific information on individual applications.

Meet our Current Residents

This year you will be provided an opportunity to meet with our residents in a virtual setting. Instructions and dates will be provided with interview day information.

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Benefits & Compensation

The following is a list of benefits granted to all residents at no charge.

Vacation

4 weeks of paid vacation per year

Travel & Education Allowance

An allowance will be provided for education items and activities for each resident year:
R1-$500
R2-$1,250
R3-$1,250

MKSAP Allowance:
Program reimburses for 1 electronic subscription of MKSAP and 1 yr ACP membership

Professional Liability Insurance

Professional liability insurance is provided by Rochester General Hospital’s insurance program for activities required by the residency program.

Term Life Insurance

$10,000 employer paid coverage with option to purchase added coverage up to 4 times annual salary.

Plan for Short-term Disability

Residents are entitled to 6 six weeks of approved medical, parental and caregiver leave during their residency program at 100% of their salary.

Long-term Disability

Option to purchase 50-67% of pay coverage

Retirement Program

Option to enroll in retirement plan.

Dental Plan

Option to purchase one of two plans available

Medical Insurance

House staff and their immediate families are provided with the opportunity to join one of several comprehensive medical insurance plans. The Hospital contributes a portion of the cost of the premiums.

Salaries are paid on a bi-weekly basis.
Additionally, residents receive a $3,000 stipend annually to aid with general living expenses (housing, meals, etc.).
The salaries for the 2024-2025 academic year will be:

$73,000

PGY-1

$76,000

PGY-2

$80,000

PGY-3

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