Program Overview

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Categorical Medicine Residency Tracks

The Internal Medicine Residency program at NYU Langone’s Department of Medicine offers a three-year categorical medicine track that provides the training necessary for board certification. As a categorical medicine resident, you will care for patients with medically complex conditions in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Program Overview

We offer two options for completing rotations: the Bellevue categorical medicine track and the NYU Langone categorical medicine track. The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) codes for each are as follows:

• Bellevue categorical medicine track: C0
• NYU Langone categorical medicine track: C3

This allows you to choose the environment that best suits your personal learning style. We believe that building communities of residents with common interests results in a richer environment for learning, feedback, mentorship, and academic pursuits.

Residency Tracks

Residents on either track complete their longitudinal outpatient experience at NYU Langone Internal Medicine Associates, NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue adult primary care clinic, or the VA NY Harbor Healthcare System primary care clinic in Manhattan.

Bellevue Categorical Medicine Track

If you choose the Bellevue categorical medicine track, you will rotate at Bellevue, the flagship facility of NYC Health + Hospitals, for the majority of your inpatient clinical rotations. The remaining inpatient rotations are at Tisch Hospital, Kimmel Pavilion, and the VA NY Harbor Healthcare System.

With a more focused experience at Bellevue, residents work alongside physicians dedicated to the social mission of the city’s largest hospital, where no patient is ever turned away. Through rotations that balance autonomy and supervision, residents in the Bellevue categorical medicine track learn to care for the most complex patients across a variety of healthcare delivery systems.

NYU Langone Categorical Medicine Track

With the NYU Langone categorical medicine track, you will spend 60 percent of your inpatient time at Tisch Hospital and the Kimmel Pavilion and 40 percent at Bellevue and the VA NY Harbor Healthcare System. You will experience greater exposure to pulmonary disease, organ transplantation, and inflammatory bowel disease in a tertiary referral center.

As part of the Firm System, NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s faculty mentorship program for medical students and residents, you will develop longitudinal relationships with hospitalist faculty. Attending hospitalists who work with house staff have demonstrated passion and skill for teaching residents and medical students, and they rotate on house staff teams regularly. This means you will work with many of the same attending physicians throughout your training and receive consistent feedback and professional development opportunities.

Postgraduate Years

Postgraduate Year 1

During your intern year, or PGY-1, in the categorical medicine program, you will complete inpatient and ambulatory care rotations. Inpatient rotations are on the general medicine services and the medical intensive care units at the three hospitals, as well as the coronary care unit (CCU) at Bellevue.

During non-inpatient weeks, interns work at their continuity clinics and participate in a variety of two-week electives that are available within our multihospital system and through other New York City health and medical clinics. Residents can pursue subspecialty rotations at any of our affiliated hospitals and outpatient settings, toxicology rotations, rotations with the city medical examiner’s office, or nonclinical electives focused on narrative medicine or healthcare technology.

Postgraduate Year 2

As part of your junior residency year, or PGY-2, you will learn to lead a ward team and work more closely with attending physicians on both day-to-day and big-picture care decisions as well as oversee and teach interns and medical students.

You will manage patient care with greater independence on night medicine rotations, with a focus on admitting undifferentiated patients at Bellevue and NYU Langone hospitals. You will also gain more experience in intensive care medicine as the senior resident in the intensive care unit at the VA NY Harbor Healthcare System and at Tisch Hospital. Finally, you will begin to pursue training opportunities along your chosen career path with more opportunities for electives and research.

Postgraduate Year 3

In your senior residency year, or PGY-3, you will gain greater autonomy leading medical teams on the general medical services and in intensive care units at all three Manhattan hospitals. You will also spend one month as a Bellevue medical consult, continue outpatient practice in your longitudinal primary care clinic, and have elective time to participate in our diverse elective offerings.

Conclusion

Graduates of both tracks move on to fellowships in a wide variety of specialties, as well as to positions in hospital and general internal medicine. The Categorical Medicine Residency program at NYU Langone’s Department of Medicine provides a comprehensive and well-rounded education in internal medicine, preparing residents for successful careers in the field.