Prospective students
The Internal Medicine – New Orleans Residency Program serves a diverse group of patients with a wide range of medical and social issues. Residents in our program experience pathology that others can only read about in textbooks. At University Medical Center, we typically see underinsured and underserved patients, while at Touro Infirmary and Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner, we care for a mix of private, insured and uninsured patients. Click the videos below to hear from our residents about a typical day at each rotation site.
LSUHSC Community Engagement
Additionally, the residents can participate in a student run clinic at the Ozanam Inn for unhoused residents in New Orleans. This opportunity affords residents time during the lighter rotations to give back to this vulnerable community at the same time assisting the students to improve and gain comfort in their clinic skills.
Program Wellness Activities and Initiatives
Our residents love hanging out with each other outside of clinic time! They enthusiastically plan and execute several wellness (social) events throughout the year, such as resident pool parties, pickleball tournaments, happy hours and New Orleans Saints game-day watch parties. Invitations are always extended to residents’ spouses, significant others, and children. More recently, they have enjoyed cohort lunches and activities on each of their clinic weeks!
UMCNO Academic Affairs and the B Well Program, UMCNO’s Well-Being Program, offer Wellness Wednesdays throughout the year. An example includes “Lean on Me” Lunch and Learn, with lunch provided, where health programs from UMC (ComPsych) discussed initiatives and services that are offered relating to mental health and well-being. In addition, LSUHSC hosts several seminars throughout the year, such as “Mindfulness in Wellness and Illness”. Residents are highly encouraged to participate in these events.
For physical wellness, residents have free access to LSUHSC's Wellness Center. The Wellness Center is dedicated to promoting the health and well-being of all members of the LSUHSC community in a safe and educational environment. The Wellness Center offers early morning, evening, and Saturday hours of operation to accommodate varying work schedules.
There is a Wellness Committee at LSUHSC (LSU Wellness Krewe). The goal of the committee is to promote a healthy learning and working environment and build resiliency and personal well-being among faculty, staff, residents, and students at LSUHSC. The Wellness Committee has created a very robust website that offers information on emotional well-being, including information on stress, depression, and mindfulness, as well as alcohol use, suicide, PTSD, work-life balance, and other resources that are helpful for our working community.
The Internal Medicine Department Leadership also hosts several social events throughout the year, including a Hello/ Farewell Party in the spring, a Resident Barbeque in the summer, Friendsgiving in November and a Holiday Party in December. These social events allow for resident camaraderie to be enhanced in a setting away from the work environment.