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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
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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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