Internal Medicine Residency

I am Dr. Sarah Hartley, a hospitalist here at the University of Michigan Health System and the interim program director for the Internal Medicine Residency program. Medical education has been a large part of my passion in medicine, and I had the privilege of joining the residency program leadership team 12 years ago as an APD and in that role I oversaw the inpatient portion of our training program.  

Our training program includes clinical rotations at the University of Michigan Hospital, a new cardiovascular hospital that is opening this fall, the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hospital, and several community sites where our residents provide primary care. We recognize that each of you has different career goals, and we strive to find the right mix of patient experience and clinical settings to develop a skill set that will allow you to practice in any clinical setting.

Curiosity and discovery through research are integral to your training. Independent of whether you see yourself as someone who has research as a key portion of your long-term career goals or as someone who plans to use evidence-based medicine to care for patients, our goal is to help you build skills of scientific inquiry and the use of evidence-based medicine in partnership with faculty who share your interests. 

In addition, education is central to the medicine that we practice every day. Whether working on a team and teaching a peer, providing education to another member of our multidisciplinary teams, or guiding the patients that we care for, we understand how important it will be for you to further sharpen your skills as educators during training. You will have experiences within the inpatient and outpatient settings, including at the bedside, on rounds, and delivering didactic sessions where you can practice these skills. 

While training, thriving outside of work is key to being able to bring your best self to the job each day. In our program, we prioritize getting you to important live events. We also have robust systems in place to support resident parents, including robust parental leave options, a lactation policy, and an elective that allows for increased balance on returning to work from parental leave. The hospital has an onsite fitness facility you can join and we host regular social events to provide ways for residents to gather outside of work. 

One theme that you will hear over and over from us is how individuals who choose to come to Michigan find themselves years later deeply engaged in the work they do and still an active member of the Michigan team. While the more familiar motto for Michigan may be “Go Blue”, as a residency program, we often find ourselves referring to the famous quote from a former Michigan football coach, “The Team, The Team, The Team”, emphasizing the great things that we can do as a collective community. 

Thanks for your interest. 

Sarah Hartley, MD, MHPE
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Interim Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program