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 Message from the Program Director
Program Director’s Message for AGH Internal Medicine Thank you for your interest in the Internal Medicine Residency at Allegheny General Hospital. This should give you an overview of who we are. The website can give you much more detail. Allegheny General Hospital is a large academic medical center in the North Shore area of the city of Pittsburgh. Our local patient population spans all ages with a predilection to medically complex older patients. We see an enormous range of pathology. Our patients also span the gamut of socioeconomic status and cultures, including a considerable number of recent immigrants. We are also a major referral center for complex or high risk patients in a wide area of adjacent Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. We are proud of our numerous experienced, dedicated faculty. We have fine teachers with great commitment to resident education. We operate from a long tradition dating back approximately 70 years. Our subspecialty faculty is equally deep and accomplished. Resident education is an integral part of our structure and history. Our program greatly encourages scholarly activity. In the academic year just past (2008-2009), a total of 16 residents submitted articles for publication or presented at national meetings. We financially support our residents’ participation through the Claude Joyner MD Fund established through our generous hospital auxiliary. Our institution also serves as a regional campus of the Drexel University College of Medicine and offers our residents additional opportunities to themselves be educators and role models. We are also fortunate to have multiple on-site fellowship programs and many clinical and basic science research projects in house. An exciting upcoming development is the ongoing integration of our program with our sister program at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, just four miles away in the Bloomfield area of the city. This will allow us to merge the two internal medicine residency programs within our health system as a unified structure, expanding the clinical experience available to our residents. Our program, we feel strongly, is an optimal size with a generous volume of patient care sufficient for a large array of pathology from which we learn. It is also small enough to be friendly, collegial, and very supportive of our residents’ professional growth and personal lifestyle. While we take our medical practice and education seriously, we avoid taking ourselves too seriously, with the notion that personal discomfort is not helpful to nor a necessary part of education. We hope this piques your interest and that you will come to visit our program. In any event, best of luck in your further career and education.
Michael Farrell, M.D.
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