For Applicants

Take Home Points

When you finish residency at Wash U:
You will have seen it all.

• Exposure to a unique mix of tertiary care and primary care; only major referral medical center in 200+ mile radius.
• Q8 overnight call during inpatient medicine rotations during intern year.  This amounts to 12-15 total for your entire intern year.
• Q3 overnight in the ICU call, with ability to rotate through 19-bed and 10-bed MICUs and 15-bed CCU.
• Only 4-6 weeks of Night Float per year, broken up into 2 week blocks.
• Inpatient rotations at the VA during your intern and JAR years; only one overnight call per month.
• Elective time escalates from 6 weeks intern year to approximately 6 months during SAR year.

You will have amassed a unique and outstanding CV.

• Participation in Mentors in Medicine Program which pairs you with a mentor in subspecialty of your choosing; ability to obtain $5000-$9000 in grant funding for research as early as intern year.
• Option of 3 months of protected research time (with only continuity clinic responsibilities) during JAR or SAR year through C-STAR program and formal course work in biostatics, epidemiology and clinical studies design.
• Opportunities to edit and author chapters in 14-book Washington Manual series.
• Flexibility to plan international away rotations as early as JAR year; established programs in Bhutan and Eritrea.

You will have a smile on your face.

• Home access to electronic medical record.
• Access to Becker Medical Library and home access to full-text online journals/resources.
• Free parking in close proximity.
• Free food at all noon conferences (except Friday, but there’s Pizza Rounds later that day!); breakfast provided on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays; free dinner on all call days.
• Affordable city with great weather and a plethora of extracurricular and social options.