NYC Health + Hospitals / Lincoln

Department of Medicine

The largest department at Lincoln Medical Center — every subspecialty under one roof, a Level 1 trauma center in the heart of the South Bronx, and home to an ACGME-accredited Internal Medicine residency of 125 physicians and six fellowship programs.

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125

Residents in the Internal Medicine program

Fellowship programs

12,000+

Inpatient discharges a year

50,000+

Clinic patients a year

Training at Lincoln

Residency and fellowships

Comprehensive training in internal medicine with an emphasis on primary care and hospital medicine, and a growing family of in-house fellowships.

Residency

Internal Medicine Residency

ACGME-accredited with no citations, 125 residents, no 24-hour call, and board pass rates above the national average.

About the program

Applicants

How to apply

Applications through ERAS only; interviews November through December, virtual or in person. See eligibility, visas, and sample documents.

Application details

Fellowships

Six fellowship programs

Pulmonary/Critical Care, Critical Care, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Endocrinology, Infectious Disease, and Hematology/Oncology.

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Clinical care

Divisions of the department

All attending physicians are board certified. The department cares for more than 12,000 inpatient discharges and 50,000 clinic patients a year.

All divisions

Allergy and ImmunologyInpatient and outpatient consultation for chronic allergic conditions,… Ambulatory CareA 15,000-square-foot practice with about 75,000 visits a year, open six days a… CardiologyBusy inpatient and outpatient non-invasive cardiology, with teaching in EKG,… EndocrinologyComplex diabetes care in a community with high prevalence of type 2 diabetes… GastroenterologyA procedure-intensive service: colonoscopy, upper endoscopy for elective and… GeriatricsTeam-based geriatric care for a large older population — polypharmacy,… Hospital MedicineSixteen hospitalists and about 12,000 discharges a year. Every resident team is… Hematology/OncologySolid and liquid malignancies, a large sickle cell and thalassemia population,… Hospice and Palliative CareAn interdisciplinary team certified by The Joint Commission as an Advanced… Infectious DiseaseInpatient ID consultation and an outpatient Immunotherapy Clinic offering… NeurologyA Joint Commission–certified primary stroke center and thrombectomy-capable… NephrologyCKD and ESRD care, a busy inpatient hemodialysis unit running three full shifts… Physical Medicine and RehabilitationInpatient and outpatient rehabilitation for post-trauma and critical illness,… Pulmonary / Critical Care MedicineLeads the medical ICU and a busy pulmonary clinic in the asthma capital of the… RheumatologyRheumatoid arthritis, gout, vasculitis, lupus, and a wide range of autoimmune…

Why Lincoln

Trained for anything, grounded in community

One of the busiest emergency departments in the country, a 22-bed medical ICU, a 40-bed telemetry unit with ventilated patients, and a patient population with the full range of acute and chronic disease — our residents graduate comfortable with everything.

24/7 in-house hospitalist and ICU attending
No 24-hour calls; 12-hour maximum shifts
POCUS certification built into the curriculum
Simulation Center sessions 2–3× a week
Dedicated research rotation and in-house IRB
Ventilator, addiction, social and lifestyle medicine rotations
A mentor for every resident
Wellness program exceeding ACGME standards

Twelve reasons to choose Lincoln Fellowship matches

Voices

What our residents and alumni say

All testimonials

Now that I am starting my 3rd month in anesthesia, I feel very confident in the OR thanks to the skills that I got in the last year, specially during the POCUS rotation and the ICU rotation. I don’t like comparison, but I feel it is important to understand...

Juan Mejia SierraPrelim Class 2023

I feel that the training I had at Lincoln is making a difference, sometimes other residents come to me to ask where I learned something and it was all at Lincoln. The POCUS training is really making a difference, the number of procedures I did make me...

Ricardo CarvalhaisPrelim Class 2023

I had prepared a thank you speech for the ceremony, and I was almost in tears because Lincoln medical center was the first place that came to my mind that helped me achieve my dream of pursuing pulmonary critical care. I cannot thank you enough for providing...

Dilsha GerianiClass 2019

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