Program director’s welcome
On behalf of the faculty, staff and residents, greetings and welcome to the WellSpan York Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program. We are excited that you’re interested in learning more about our program.
The Internal Medicine Residency program has a long tradition of excellence in education and patient care. Our program has a total of 36 categorical resident positions — we match 12 interns each year.
We seek accomplished, well-rounded applicants from diverse backgrounds who are willing to work hard, expect and appreciate graduated patient care autonomy, and take an active role in their own and their colleagues’ internal medicine training. Our ideal candidates are self-motivated with outstanding work ethics, work well as part of an integrated team and have fun while doing so.
When you train at WellSpan York Hospital, you learn at a large community hospital (nearly 600 beds and growing) with a strong tradition in both graduate and undergraduate medical education. In addition to several other residency training programs here, we are a regional medical campus of the Drexel University College of Medicine. We also have teaching affiliations with the Penn State College of Medicine at Hershey and the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University.
During your time here, you’ll hone your diagnostic and therapeutic skills by caring for a large and diverse patient population. WellSpan York Hospital is a community hospital that also serves as a regional referral center. That means we care for bread-and-butter internal medicine diagnoses in patients from the community and more rare and complex conditions in patients who are transferred here. Our residents get the best of both worlds by training at WellSpan.
Residents in our internal medicine program learn from a talented, diverse and award-winning core faculty who are dedicated to being exceptional clinician-educators. The “right-sizing” of the program allows the residents to form close mentoring relationships with the faculty. As a result, educational feedback and career guidance is always entirely personalized and never generic.
We think of residents training in our program akin to pluripotent stem cells, to borrow a phrase from one of my predecessors. Upon successful completion of internal medicine residency at WellSpan York Hospital, residents are well-prepared for any number of career options, including primary care medicine, hospitalist medicine and subspecialty training in fellowships.
The York area is a beautiful region in the heart of south-central Pennsylvania. The scenery is beautiful, the cost of living is low, the quality of the schools is high and the hassle and congestion associated with larger cities is nonexistent. It speaks volumes that many of our graduates stay in the area following completion of their training. For many of our faculty (including me), WellSpan Health is the only place we’ve ever worked.
Thanks again for your interest in our internal medicine residency program. While a website cannot replace an actual visit, we hope that as you look through the site, it gives you a sense of who we are, what we do and what we value.
If you’re interested in a residency program where you’ll work hard, receive a lot of autonomy, and form close, congenial relationships with your colleagues and faculty, we welcome your ERAS application.
Looking forward to reading your application and meeting you virtually,
Rob
Robert Pargament, MD, FACP
Program Director
Internal Medicine Residency Program
