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Hometown: Montreal, Canada
Medical School: St. George’s University
Interests: Clinical Teaching, POCUS, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Fun Fact: Speaks French and enjoys Curating Charcuterie Boards!
Hometown: Karachi, Pakistan
Medical School: Ziauddin Medical College
Interest: Clinical Reasoning, Cardiology, Clinical Research, Medical Education, POCUS
Fun Fact: Is a Plant Enthusiast and can teach you Aerial Yoga!
Hometown: San Fernando, Trinidad
Medical School: Saint George’s University
Interests: Cardiology,Hospital Administration, Teaching, Humanism Project
Fun Fact: Is a Vet and can play the Steel Pan!
Hometown: Amritsar, Punjab, India
Medical School: Vardhman Mahavir Medical College (VMMC)
Interests: Clinical Teaching, Cardiology, POCUS
Fun Fact: Bhangra King!
The Internal Medicine Residency Program at Maimonides Medical Center provides a unique educational experience, combining the outstanding clinical exposure of a major urban hospital with an emphasis on academic medicine. Our location, in the heart of Brooklyn, New York at the intersection of Borough Park and Sunset Park, and our designation as a safety net hospital, draw one of the most diverse patient populations in the US. Through exposure to both inpatient and outpatient medicine on the medical floors, the critical care and coronary care units, and the outpatient clinics, our residents become well-versed in all aspects of internal medicine, fully prepared to enter any practice setting or fellowship upon graduation.
The Program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). We offer a total of 107 positions in two approved training programs:
Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program at Maimonides Medical Center
Anthony N. Kalloo
Chair of Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center
Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University
Hometown: Flushing, N.Y.
Med School: SUNY Downstate
Residency, fellowship: Maimonides
Why I love Maimonides: I initially came to Maimonides because of the amazingly diverse staff and patient population. I also became very fond of Brooklyn as a place in which to live and work during medical school. There have been many reasons for the longevity of my tenure here, including the fact that I was offered many opportunities to advance my career here. Importantly, the academic environment, with excellent colleagues and residents, fellows, and students in all clinical areas makes my career continue to be interesting and rewarding.
Hometown: Staten Island, NY
Medical School: St. George’s University;
Internship: SUNY Downstate at Long Island College Hospital;
Residency and Chief Residency: Maimonides Medical Center;
Fellowship: Rheumatology at Indiana University School of Medicine
Why I love Maimonides: I recently returned to Maimonides after being away for fellowship and work post-graduation. I am so happy to be back and involved in this residency program. As a resident, I always felt supported, heard and the program felt like my extended family. Maimonides provided a rich learning environment and has left a lasting impression on how I practice medicine today. I truly loved my time here as a trainee and I am excited to be able to now give back to this community as an attending. My current focus is on revamping our didactics curriculum and this year piloting an intern academic half day.
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Medical School: NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Residency: Yale Internal Medicine
Why I love Maimonides: I have known about Maimonides for most of my life as an essential part of the fabric of Brooklyn, having grown up in New York City. However, only as a young physician did I come to appreciate what a unique environment Maimonides offers. The people here are really great, and you will feel like you are part of a family. At the same time, there are ample career growth opportunities, and our leadership is approachable, supportive, and committed to retaining physicians and nurturing medical careers.
Navjot Somal, MD
Hometown: Sangrur, Punjab in India
Medical School: Government Medical College, Amritsar, Punjab, India.
Residency: Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Why I love Maimonides: After finishing my residency, when I was looking for a job, couldn’t find one which felt like family. I quickly realized that Maimonides is the place for me. I love teaching students and residents and guiding them to be caring and compassionate physicians.
Hometown: Chennai, India
Medical School: Madras Medical College
Residency: Maimonides Medical Center
Why I love Maimonides: I love Maimonides for the collegial and friendly environment. The program leadership is approachable and open to new ideas. There is a lot of diversity whether it be colleagues, residents I work with, or patients and I simply love that.
The internal medicine curriculum at Maimonides fulfills the requirements of the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine (RCC-IM) of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The Categorical Internal Medicine Residency Program is a three-year ACGME accredited program based around a 4+1 block system comprising 4 weeks of inpatient and subspecialty elective rotations alternating with 1 week of primary care ambulatory medicine. Our comprehensive curriculum is focused on engaging residents as adult learners with the aim of producing competent, curious and compassionate internists. The curriculum offers broad and balanced experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings, which prepare the graduate for a career in general internal medicine or further training in any of the medical subspecialties.
By the end of the three-year program, graduating residents leave as expert practitioners in the care and treatment of major acute and chronic diseases.
Preliminary Medicine
Our one-year Preliminary Medicine Program provides interns with a comprehensive exposure to internal medicine, providing them with a strong foundation for their future advanced training. Preliminary interns work side-by-side with their Categorical intern colleagues, managing patients both on the medical floors and the intensive care unit. These experiences are interspersed throughout the year with a generous number of elective weeks, allowing the Preliminary intern to customize their educational program to what will best suit their future endeavors. Our Preliminary interns emerge from their year at Maimonides adept in the management of patients with a wide range of complex internal medicine diagnoses, ready to take on their advanced program training.
The Residency Program incorporates training in many areas, including:
Comprehensive Inpatient and Outpatient Experiences
We offer a 4+1 schedule, which separates inpatient and outpatient experiences, enhancing the education in both settings.
Inpatient rotations include the general medical floors, medical and coronary care units (ICU/CCU) and specialty divisions. Under the supervision of the full-time faculty, residents participate in daily rounds on each unit. Responsibilities include:
A weekly Intern Report allows PGY1s to learn the basic principles of patient management, proper history and physical examination skills, as well as honing their presentation and diagnostic skills.
Morning Report focuses on overnight admission case presentations. Led by the Chief Residents and guided by Program leadership and faculty physicians, this is an opportunity for residents to learn about differential diagnosis building and patient management in a safe and structured environment.
Our Medicine wards are comprised of three large geographically-based general medicine teams, each supervised by three attending physicians. There is additionally a smaller non-geographic team which manages patients on overflow floors. This system ensures that our trainees receive an excellent educational experience while providing the highest level of patient safety and care. We also have a night medicine rotation under the supervision of in-house faculty physicians. There, the overnight residents and interns practice the art of the initial assessment and management of newly presenting patients while helping with the ongoing care of established patients.
The outpatient curriculum offers ambulatory care experiences in the primary care clinic, private office practice settings, and specialty clinics. Categorical Medicine residents and spend a week every fifth week at their longitudinal continuity clinic, assigned to one of three primary care sites. Residents act as primary providers for a panel of patients, with oversight by our outpatient faculty.
Additionally, the outpatient week includes structured protected time, including:
All of the above experiences provide residents with an understanding of the full range of care and support services available to patients. Our program prepares residents for the complexities of healthcare delivery in today’s world, while attending to their well-being.
Quality Improvement and Research Support
All residents in the Department of Medicine at Maimonides are required to pursue scholarly endeavors, including quality improvement and clinical research. We have a dedicated curriculum and faculty to help residents conduct quality improvement and patient safety projects. We encourage residents and attending physicians to take an active role in our monthly quality improvement meetings, where patient quality and safety issues are discussed among an interdisciplinary team. Additionally, Maimonides organizes an interdepartmental Resident Quality Council, which enables residents to take an active role in hospital-wide quality initiatives.
The Department provides our residents with the resources, time, and logistical support to be successful in scholarly pursuits. The Department integrates teaching research techniques into the general curriculum. Our Faculty Director of Resident Research, Dr. Yushia Lin and our Chief Resident for Research, Dr. Maham Waheed, personally mentor and review residents’ research projects, inclusive of abstract and manuscript review prior to journal submission for publication.
Maimonides has a biostatistician team available to consult on any project at any stage in its development or implementation, as well as to assist with data analysis.
Research is strongly supported at Maimonides. We help residents to identify and select appropriate research topics aligned with their career plans and specialty interests. Maimonides residents have presented at many national and regional scientific meetings, and have won national awards for both clinical and basic science research over the last several years.
Ambulatory Didactics and The Humanism Project
Every Wednesday is a fully protected Academic Day for the residents on their ambulatory week. The day includes time dedicated to research guidance and support, board preparation and our unique and innovative Humanism Project curriculum. The Humanism Project focuses on developing communication skills, recognizing unconscious bias, and understanding medical ethics. The Humanism Project helps residents navigate the unique but interdependent needs of patients, colleagues, families, and themselves, by developing self-awareness and a sensitivity to interpersonal dynamics and complex topics that are not always addressed by a formal curriculum. Its goal is to develop physicians who are patient-centric, professional, empathetic, and emotionally fulfilled in their medical careers. These sessions combine standardized patient scenarios, small group discussions, experiential learning, reflection sessions, and trips to the community. Recent trips have been to the Brooklyn Museum and Greenwood Cemetery.
The remainder of the Academic Day is spent immersed in experiential learning in our state-of-the-art simulation lab, which boasts a virtual reality simulator, interactive ultrasound simulation and practice performing procedures on mannequins.
At Maimonides, we provide a superb internal medical education. Our highly engaged faculty provide expert guidance to the residents in caring for an incredibly broad-based population here in the heart of the amazing borough of Brooklyn, New York. Over their three years of training, residents manage a rich and diverse array of patients with remarkably wide-ranging underlying pathologies.
Maimonides Medical Center
Founded in 1911, Maimonides has been a cornerstone of the Brooklyn community and is the largest hospital in Brooklyn. Over the last century, we have become a world-class care center and a vital part of New York City. Maimonides Medical Center is the top five largest independent teaching hospitals in the country.
From the first heart transplant in the U.S. to the first hospital-based Clinical Simulation Center in the Northeast, we are on the cutting edge of innovation. For several years, Maimonides has been rated among the ‘Top 10 Hospitals’ in the Nation for Clinical Excellence according to data published by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Maimonides Medical Center
Department of Medicine, Research Administration
Dr. Anthony N. Kalloo | Chair of Medicine
Dr. Lawrence B. Wolf | Program Director
Dr. Yu Shia Lin | Director of Research
Dr. Maham A. Waheed | Chief Resident, Research
Dr. Hnin Pyae Phyo Aung | Research Volunteer
Izabella Beniaminova, MS2 | Research Volunteer
Dr. May Thazin Soe | Research Volunteer
Dr. May Thet Hmu Tun | Research Volunteer
Dr. Stuart Jesin | Research Volunteer
Dr. Tin Mee Mee Aung | Research Volunteer
Dr. Thin Naing Soe | Research Volunteer
Dr. Wai Wai Mon | Research Volunteer
Dr. Yan Naing Tun | Research Volunteer
Divisional Research Liaisons
Dr. Benjamin Weindorf | General Internal Medicine
Dr. Ira Mayer | Gastroenterology
Dr. Jennifer Breznay | Geriatrics
Dr. Yiqing Xu | Hematology/Oncology
Dr. Yu Shia Lin | Infectious Diseases
Dr. Jocelyne Karam | Metabolism & Endocrinology
Dr. Sheldon Greenberg | Nephrology
Dr. Chernyak | Neurology
Dr. Egan | Palliative Care
Dr. William Pascal | Pulmonary & Critical Care
Dr. Schiff | Rheumatology & Immunology
Maimonides is unique because it is located within the heart of the bustling borough of Brooklyn, New York. This leads to an amazingly diverse patient population with a wide array of pathology. Maimonides offers a unique opportunity for training in a high-acuity and busy tertiary care center which also serves as a safety-net community hospital. Residents leave this program able to manage any medical challenge that comes their way.
New York City is one of the most vibrant and exciting cities in the world. While completing residency in New York, you will have access to theater, music, endless restaurants, sporting events, and much more. Whatever your interests, you will be able to find things to do throughout the boroughs of New York. Brooklyn itself is full of rich history and unique neighborhoods everywhere you look. It boasts quirky cafes, hip brunch spots, beautiful parks, excellent schools, and a strong sense of community.
All applications are accepted only through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) and are then reviewed by our Selection Committee. The Department of Medicine offers all of its residency positions through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).
The review of your application and the scheduling of interviews requires a completed ERAS application, including the following components:
Maimonides Medical Center complies with federal and city laws and orders prohibiting discrimination in employment. Such discrimination includes race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, handicap, marital status or sexual orientation.
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Important Dates for 2022-2023
Click here for Grand Rounds Schedule 2022-2023
Applications are accepted from September 28 to December 31, 2022.
Interview Day
In adherence with national standards, all interview days will be held virtually this season. The interview session typically includes presentations from the Program Director and the Chief Residents as well as a greeting from the Chair of Medicine. Each candidate will interview with a faculty member and with a current resident, as well as with a Chief Resident or Associate Program Director. Applicants will also have allocated time to meet briefly with the Program Director. Finally, there will be an interactive group sessions with our current residents, so that candidates can learn more about our residents’ experiences at Maimonides. This year, we will be also offering a virtual open house for prospective applicants, to “see” the facility and meet with program leadership, faculty, and residents. These sessions will not have any bearing on candidate applications or ranking by the Program.
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