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All internship applications are to be submitted through ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service).

A Complete Application for Residency must include:

  1. Universal Application (ERAS Application Form)
  2. Curriculum Vitae (ERAS generated)
  3. Medical School Transcript
  4. Dean’s Letter of Recommendation (MSPE)
  5. Letters of Recommendation
  • Categorical and Primary Care Internal Medicine Applicants
    • 3 required Letters:
    • 1. Department Chair’s Summary letter of Evaluation
      2. Clinical, from an internal medicine faculty
      3. Clinical faculty or scholarly project mentor
      4. Optional 4th LOR from clinical faculty or scholarly project mentor
    • You may submit up to 4 Letters of Recommendation total
  • Preliminary Internal Medicine Applicants
    • 2 required Letters: 1 clinical LOR from an internal medicine faculty + 1 clinical LOR from any specialty
    • You may submit up to 4 Letters of Recommendation total
  1. USMLE Results; Step 1 needed to apply, Step 2 CK to start
  2. Personal Statement
  3. ERAS supplemental application.  For the 2024 ERAS® cycle, our program will strongly encourage all applicants to complete a supplemental ERAS application.

Additional Requirements for Foreign Medical Graduates include:

  1. Graduation from medical school within the past five years
  2. Six months of clinical experience in the United States (does not include observerships)
  3. Current ECFMG certification
  4. USMLE Step 1 & 2 CK Score
  5. We support J-1 visas only

Program Approach to Signaling:

Finding the program that best suits your individual goals and talents can be difficult and stressful, and applicants often feel a lack of transparency regarding how a program will use signals.

While our program intends to review every application regardless of signal status, applications with a gold or silver signal will be prioritized into the first wave of application reviews.  This does not guarantee an interview, but it does ensure that your chart will be reviewed before our first interview date in late October.  Applications without a signal will be reviewed afterwards, and while we will invite selected non-signaling applicants to fill the remaining interview positions, invitations may come after interviews have already begun and flexibility for interview dates may be more limited. 

If you are wondering whether this is a program that you would like to signal, we recommend comparing your ideal program attributes to a description of our program’s recruitment priorities and see how well they align.  From our end:

  1. We are looking for individuals with an excellent clinical training record who would thrive in a large academic setting with a diverse patient population. 
  2. We are committed to identifying individuals who contribute to the “culture” of our program, which values collegiality, teamwork, diversity, and a growth mindset. 
  3. We recognize that our institution’s resources and pathways may be a particularly good match for those interested in leading scientific advances (the PSTP track), serving the community as a primary provider (the PCIM track), or developing a skillset through our  categorical pathways (clinical research, medical education, global health/advocacy, leadership/change implementation).

For the 2024-2025 application cycle, all interviews will be conducted via virtual platforms.  There will be no in-person interviews or site visits to protect the health and safety of the applicants.

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