Clinical Training

The Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has a long tradition of excellence in its internal medicine training programs. The department has a full-time faculty of 322 with staff currently based at UPMC Presbyterian, UPMC Shadyside and the Oakland Veterans Affairs Medical Center (part of the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System). In addition to the Division of General Medicine, the Department of Medicine includes 10 subspecialty divisions: Cardiology; Clinical Pharmacology; Endocrinology and Metabolism; Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition; Geriatric Medicine; Hematology/Oncology; Infectious Diseases; Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine; Renal-Electrolyte; and Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology. These divisions provide the superior clinical expertise in their respective areas so necessary for an academically oriented general medical service.

International Scholars rotate on both the Oakland campus, location of UPMC Presbyterian and VA Medical Center, as well as the Shadyside campus, site of our large tertiary care community hospital. Training at all three clinical sites provides Scholars a wide diversity of patients, case mix and systems of care. The distribution of rotations is described in the table below.