Overview
The Primary Care & Social Internal Medicine Residency Program is a fusion of general internal medicine and social medicine with one curriculum, faculty, leadership and ambulatory site. The program is highly respected at Montefiore and nationwide. It is a primary care program integrated into the Montefiore Categorical Internal Medicine Residency as an ACGME accredited internal medicine residency and shares unique curriculum and faculty with the Department of Family and Social Medicine.
Our Mission, Vision and Values
We are an internal medicine residency training program rooted in an academic medical center in the Bronx that delivers care using the paradigms and power systems inherent in modern Western medicine. We acknowledge that the current model of healthcare delivery is inadequate, and often harmful, to people who have been historically and currently marginalized and excluded.
Our vision is to challenge the status quo and reimagine resident education and the practice of medicine in order to bring equity and justice to healthcare.
We are committed to examining the existing power dynamics in healthcare, to frequent self-reflection, and to continuous personal and programmatic evolution. We work in solidarity with the Bronx community and will use the tools of advocacy, collaboration and power-sharing to meet the social justice needs of our time.
What is Social Medicine?
Social medicine is the practice of seeking to understand the social context of patients and communities and working to remediate the impact of these grossly unequal life contexts on the life and death of the poor and marginalized. Social medicine aspires to ensure health by drawing on social analysis and community strengths to change the structural forces that determine health disparities.
Contact Us
Primary Care/Social Internal Medicine Residency Program
Residency Program in Social Medicine *break 3544 Jerome Ave. *break Bronx, NY 10467
Josephine Byfield, Program Assistant:
718-710-5460
Aida Issaka, Program Manager:
aida.issaka@einsteinmed.edu