Welcome to the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive educational program in a multicultural and socioeconomically diverse environment, preparing residents for independent clinical practice and/or further fellowship training.
Our talented and enthusiastic faculty and residents look forward to the opportunity to guide you in your journey toward becoming a proficient and caring internal medicine physician.
As the program’s director, I strive to develop a personal relationship between me and each resident to help ensure that everyone knows he/she is supported and can excel.
Over the last three decades, our Internal Medicine Residency Program has trained many talented physicians who have gone on to successful clinical careers in primary care, subspecialty fellowships, and hospital medicine. We also have several former residents who have gone on to successful academic careers at major teaching hospitals. Many of our talented faculty began their careers at WHMC and chose to stay to contribute to the thriving educational environment.
If you are accepted into our program, you will have 36 months of solid training, meaningful experiences in both inpatient and outpatient settings, didactics, and conferences 5 days a week, thoughtful evaluations and feedback, careful mentorship, and opportunities for scholarship and research. We are confident that our comprehensive program will help ensure that you will pass the ABIM certifying exam, and you will receive strong support for your next position, whether that is in the form of a fellowship in subspecialty or a position in primary care or hospital medicine.
The diversity of the patient population served by the hospital and the spectrum of diseases treated provides opportunities unmatched elsewhere. Residents will develop strong clinical skills by means of progressive responsibility under supervision, leading to autonomy in patient care. You will develop skills and attitudes for lifelong learning and make lifelong friends. You will always remember that, while patients always come first and that medicine is a serious business, you will feel like a member of a close-knit family throughout your 3 years in Wyckoff Heights Medical Center.
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center is located in the Northwestern section of Brooklyn, an area known as Bushwick, and is bound by Williamsburg, Ridgewood, and Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhoods. The area is well-known for its artistic and family-oriented neighborhood. This area is well-served by public transportation, with a Myrtle Avenue/Wyckoff Avenue bus and subway hub. The L, M, and Z trains bring residents of the Bushwick area to Manhattan within a 15–20 minute time frame.
We look forward to speaking with you about the unique opportunities available at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center community-based program. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.
Zeyar Thet, MD, FIDSA
Program Director at Wyckoff Heights Medical
Associate Professor, St. Georges School of Medicine
Associate Professor, New York Institute of Technology
Internal Medicine Residency Program
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center is an academically affiliated community teaching hospital with a thriving postgraduate training program. Each year, we recruit twenty-five residents into our categorical program, striving for a group that will match the diversity of our community. We select residents eager to develop the skills and confidence necessary to excel in a career in medicine. We are especially interested in trainees who wish to pursue careers in Primary Care and Hospital Medicine, but recent graduates have also matched in prestigious fellowships in Palliative and Geriatric, Critical Care/Pulmonary Medicine, Infectious Disease, Nephrology, Endocrinology, and Neurocritical and Nephrology Critical Care fellowships.
Mission Statement
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center (WHMC) Internal Medicine Residency program strives to recruit, train, mentor, and nurture a diverse group of residents who will thrive and serve our hospital and community.
Our primary goal is to educate and train residents to become competent, compassionate, and independently practicing internists serving the needs of their societies.
Our faculty is committed to fostering a learning environment that emphasizes:
- Patients first
- Safety and quality of care
- Physician well-being
- Commitment to teaching each other and our students
- Lifelong learning
- Role modeling and curricula that support future careers in Primary Care, Hospital Medicine, subspecialty medicine, and research
About Wyckoff Heights Medical Center
Located in an ethnically diverse residential neighborhood directly on the border of northern Brooklyn and western Queens, WHMC is a 350-bed teaching hospital. A dedicated staff of 1,800 physicians, nurses, and support personnel care for patients thirty-five distinct languages and cultures.
WHMC has been providing medical care to the community since 1889. Today, we see 90,500 visits annually in our Pediatric/Adult Emergency Departments, deliver 1,400 babies, offer outpatient services to thousands at our network of community ambulatory care centers and present extensive community health education and screening programs.
To ensure the future healthcare needs of the communities we serve, WHMC expands in different areas including comprehensive cardiac care and angioplasty, stroke center, women‘s
health, and comprehensive STI screening and treatment center.
Why Choose WHMC
There are several reasons to choose the WHMC Internal Medicine Residency Program. With its diverse patient base and immerse pathologies the program provides a superior learning environment. All subspecialties of internal medicine are represented, and full-time faculty are available to assist residents’ clinical decision-making, career planning, and individual counseling.
All our faculty members are energetic and committed to your education. They support, nurture, and guide each resident as they work to achieve their goals. Residents gain great independence under the direct supervision of our full-time faculty and have many opportunities for hands-on experiences. This allows residents to gain tremendous confidence in diagnosing and managing complex patients with multiple comorbid patients.
We have an open-door policy for our residents, and we pride ourselves on our spirit of camaraderie. We strongly believe these foster professional as well as personal growth and development for our residents.
At WHMC, you will find:
- Respected, seasoned faculty with years of clinical and academic experience
- A diverse, urban, and suburban patient population
- Strong local national research opportunities
- Strong focus on residents’ performance on the national board examination
- Full electronic medical records both in inpatient and outpatient settings
- Excellent research opportunities including 4 full-time Associate Program Directors each focusing on population health, outpatient, and inpatient and scholarity activities
- A well-balanced curriculum with exposure to various subspecialties (3:1 block schedule, admitting team, night float system)
- An emphasis on academic excellence, ambulatory care, research, and clinical training
- Continuity of weekly schedule
- Focus on ABIM examination pass rates
Innovative Teaching Methods
- Monthly exams focused on ABIM-based questions
- New training on POCUS for all residents
- Weekly board review course including a Dr. Rahman’s one-hour Morning Report Lead by Awesome Review course
- Resident Clinical Pathological Case conference, Morbidity and Mortality, and journal club weekly
- Interactive Morning Report daily by Chairwoman, PD, APD and Awesome Review by Dr. Rahman
Resources
Internal Medicine Resident Directory