Serving and Creating Community
Our Internal Medicine Residency Program is committed to serving and creating a community of belonging within our training program, department, and institution as a whole. As a residency program, we are dedicated to fostering a welcoming culture. We believe we must actively work to deliver equitable healthcare and advocate for our patients across different geographies, cultures, faiths, traditions, physical abilities, and genders. Below are a few examples of what we are doing as a program to engage:
• Monthly lunch conference curriculum focused on different cultures within our Utah community, including case-based learning, cultural learning, and community guest speakers
• A Substance Use Disorder curriculum, including mandatory clinical rotations in Addiction Medicine
• Community Health Worker-led series of workshops to cultivate cultural understanding and to increase residents' working knowledge of local resources available to our patients
• Holistic recruitment of residents from all backgrounds
Office of Academic Culture & Community
Community Service & Engagement
Our program believes it is vital to support our community and patients through service and engagement.
Midvale Community Clinic: Residents volunteer as preceptors for the student-led clinic on Internal Medicine, Medicine-Pediatrics, and Gynecology clinic nights
Geraldine E. King Women’s Center Resident volunteer nights serving dinner together.
Community Medicine Rotation A two-week rotation where residents work at safety-net community clinics in our area:
- Maliheh Free Clinic: a primary care clinic serving those without insurance
- Intermountain North Temple Clinic: a free urgent care clinic serving predominantly uninsured, Spanish-speaking patients
- Rose Park Clinic: a primary care clinic for high-risk, low-income patients
- New American Clinic: a screening clinic for recently immigrated refugees
“The community medicine rotation is one of my favorite rotations of residency so far. The clinics are set up by the community to provide care to our most vulnerable and underserved patients in Salt Lake City. It is a great opportunity to take the skills that we have learned and give back to our community. Many of these clinics are largely run by volunteers and we get a lot of great autonomy in our decision making while still feeling very supported in the clinic. Also, many of that patients were Spanish-speaking so I got to improve my medical Spanish!”
– Sara Zhukovsky, PGY2