Welcome

Welcome to the Department of Medicine at the University of Vermont.  With more than 165 faculty committed to excellence in patient care, education, research and service, we offer an outstanding environment for medicine resident training.

Our clinical program encompasses the academic medical center, Fletcher Allen Health Care, and outpatient practice sites throughout Vermont and upstate New York.  Our clinical practice includes primary care community medicine, hospitalist medicine, and extensive subspecialty tertiary and quaternary services in Cardiology, Dermatology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Hematology-Oncology, Infectious Disease, Nephrology, Pulmonary and Critical Care, and Rheumatology. The breadth and depth of our clinical services not only provides excellent clinical care to the region, it provides an opportunity for the residents to learn in multiple clinical settings with diverse patient populations.

The Department of Medicine has an extensive education program. In addition to the residency program in Internal Medicine we have a residency program in Dermatology and 12 subspecialty fellowship programs.  The faculty, fellows and residents are very involved in education of medical students both through our participation in the innovative Vermont Integrated Curriculum as well as through our daily interactions with students on in patient clerkships including a required acting internship in Internal Medicine and outpatient rotations.  Our faculty are renowned for their expertise and commitment to teaching not only locally (as evidenced by numerous teaching awards) but at the national level as well.  Many faculty members serve as leaders in key national organizations focused on medical student and resident education.

At the University of Vermont, the Department of Medicine is the recipient of more extramural funding than any other department. Our investigators are internationally renowned for their contributions to medical science.  Research expertise ranges from the bench to the bedside to the community and includes multidisciplinary programs in Lung Disease, Cardiovascular Disease, Infection and Immunology, Cancer, Diabetes, Stem Cell Biology, and Obesity.  With NIH training grants and a Center for Clinical and Translational Science supported by a K30 award from the NCRR, our faculty also train the next generation of scientific investigators.

Faculty, fellows and residents are engaged in service not only through their clinical work but through their participation in departmental, hospital, university, regional and national committees and organizations.   This work ranges from quality assurance and patient safety to the development of national clinical guidelines and the establishment of research agenda and directions.  

I encourage you to explore the Department of Medicine website: (http://www.med.uvm.edu/medicine)  to learn more about us.

Polly E. Parsons, MD
Chair
Department of Medicine