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DEPARTMENT AND TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
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David
Bor, MD
Chief of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance;
Charles S. Davidson Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard
Medical School |
Dear
Applicant:
Thank
you for exploring training with the Department of Medicine at Cambridge
Health Alliance. Through our Harvard Medical School affiliated programs,
we have prepared health professionals for a wide variety of satisfying
careers for over three decades.
At
Cambridge Health Alliance you will find a highly integrated, community-oriented
health care system that is a national model of care. We celebrate
our ethnically and culturally diverse community and staff. We promote
a respectful, socially conscious, and intellectually stimulating
environment for health care and education. Our vision statement
speaks of our passion and commitment: we seek to be the foremost
academic public health care system in the nation. Over the past
decade, we have received recognition that speaks to the breadth
of our service and academic mission and our "Institute for
Community Health" provides a focus for relevant research and
education.
The
Department of Medicine provides comprehensive primary care and specialty
services in a model designed to meet the needs of the community.
Department services are available at more than 20 primary care sites
and three hospital facilities. Patients and staff benefit from the
use of clinical computing through a state-of-the-art electronic
medical records system. All full-time department members have faculty
appointments at Harvard Medical School.
The
Department is structured in divisions, which include: Cardiology;
Endocrinology; Geriatrics; Hematology/Oncology; Hospital Medicine;
Neurology; Occupational/ Environmental Medicine; Pulmonary Medicine;
Rheumatology; Medical Education; and Social and Community Medicine.
Clinical specialties include a Multidisciplinary HIV/AIDS center
and Tuberculosis clinic. Primary care medicine is integrated in
an Alliance-wide Department of Ambulatory Care.
The
philosophy of the department - and of the Alliance as a whole -
is to create a community of caring that extends to patients, staff,
and trainees. Training programs are solid academically and clinically,
yet offer a flexible environment that allows residents to excel.
Our residents benefit from community-based training in an integrated
public health care system with access to tertiary care training
opportunities at other Harvard-affiliated institutions. Throughout
this system our diverse faculty and house staff are committed to
improving the health of the public. This shared dedication, paired
with an environment of respectfulness, allows us to pursue true
academic and clinical excellence.
Thank
you again for your interest in the Department of Medicine at Cambridge
Health Alliance. I am confident that you will appreciate the uniqueness
of our institution and training programs and the sincerity of our
commitment to excellence.
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Contact
Info:
Department
of Medicine Training Programs
Phone: 617-665-1021
Internal
Medicine Residency
Richard Pels, MD; Program Director
imres@cha.harvard.edu
Transitional
Year Internship
Ayse Atasoylu, MD, MPH; Program Director
transint@cha.harvard.edu
Directions
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Accommodations
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