Transition to Residency

10 most-viewed internal medicine residency programs

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2024 FREIDA™ data

In 2024, FREIDA™ users tallied more than 800,000 views of internal medicine residency programs. In this list, we pare the 663 programs down to the 10 internal medicine residency programs ranked at the top for user interest.

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Rankings are based on identified medical student activity on FREIDA™, the AMA Residency & Fellowship Database®, from Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2024. FREIDA allows medical students to search for a residency or fellowship from more than 13,000 programs—all accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

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Specialty description

Internists are physician specialists uniquely trained to apply scientific knowledge to the care of adults across the spectrum from health to complex illness. Internists may choose to become a general or an internal medical subspecialist.

General internists handle the broad, comprehensive spectrum of illnesses that affect adults. Whereas, subspecialists often see patients on a limited basis in consultation with a general internist or another medical specialist and receive additional in-depth training and board certification in the diagnosis and management of diseases of a specific type (e.g., infectious diseases) or diseases affecting a single organ system (e.g., the cardiovascular system).

The 10-most viewed internal medicine programs

  1. Cook County Health and Hospitals System Program

  2. Bridgeport Hospital/Yale University Program 

  3. Howard University Program

  4. MedStar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Program

  5. Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Wakefield Campus) Program

  6. BronxCare Health System Program

  7. One Brooklyn Health System/Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center Program

  8. Brookwood Baptist Health Program

  9. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Morningside/West Program

  10. Ascension Illinois/Saint Joseph (Chicago) Program

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