Welcome from the Chairman

Dear Internal Medicine Residency Applicant,

Welcome to the Department of Medicine and our residency training program in Internal Medicine. Our department's mission is to discover treatments and to pursue knowledge in an open atmosphere with the goal of training and mentoring the next generation of diverse leadership in medicine.  This goes hand-in-hand with our mission of providing outstanding patient care to all of society without bias or prejudice.  We are committed to challenging socioeconomic inequalities and promoting fair treatment, so disparities are eliminated. We train our residents to be empathetic, just and fair.  As the Chairman of the Department of Medicine, I strongly believe that our trainees are at the forefront of our mission since they are the future doctors and scientists who will be bringing extraordinary advances to medicine and patient care to our diverse communities. 

Our residency program is designed to bring our diverse trainees closer to these advanced treatments and cures, so they are accessible to all of society. We provide challenging and innovative experiences for our trainees that are focused on mentoring across a multidisciplinary medical spectrum while caring for a highly diverse patient population, representing some of the most underprivileged of our community.  Our residents study and train alongside highly accomplished and world-renowned physicians and scientists. They practice at our flagship University of Miami Hospital, the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (the only NCI-designated cancer center in South Florida), the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Jackson Memorial Hospital (the only Level 1 Trauma Center in the county), and at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute which has been ranked #1 in ophthalmology care by the U.S. News & World Report as the “Best Hospital in America” for over twenty years.  

We are located in the heart of Miami, a city that has the distinction of being a melting pot of cultures and our patients are as unique as the communities they live in.  We also serve patients from all over the country as well as Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the rest of the world. Our residents are mentored by or work closely with our faculty as they study and treat patients with a wide array of pathology and the challenges of the social determinants of health.   Our residents present and publish their work and many of them have gone on to successful careers in academia and private practice. 

The educational mission of the Department of Medicine is to train exceptional healers and the future leaders in academic medicine; leaders who understand social determinants of health and will rise to meet the needs of our increasingly diverse population. We are home to residency and fellowship programs in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Interventional Cardiology, International Interventional Structural Heart Disease, Heart Failure and Transplant, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Gastroenterology, Geriatric Medicine, Hepatology, Hematology-Oncology, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Infectious Disease, Nephrology, Pulmonary Critical Care, Rheumatology, and Sleep Medicine. 

If you want to make a difference in the health care of the most vulnerable among us, you will find a home at which to flourish at UM/Jackson Internal Medicine Residency training program.

Only my best,

Roy E. Weiss, MD, PhD
Rabbi Morris I. Esformes Endowed Chair in Medicine and Endocrinology
Kathleen & Stanley Glaser Distinguished Chair
Professor of Medicine, Chairman - Department of Medicine
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine