Program Overview - Billings Clinic Internal Medicine Residency

The goal of the Billings Clinic Internal Medicine Residency is to empower graduates of our program to practice in either the inpatient or outpatient setting as internal medicine specialists or to be strong candidates for future fellowship training. To accomplish this goal, we have developed a broad-based training program with rigorous outpatient and inpatient experiences. Our residents practice in a multi-specialty clinic as well as at our tertiary care center that provides complex care to a wide geographic region.

Teaching faculty consists of specialists in internal medicine with strong support from subspecialists representing a broad spectrum of internal medicine. Our clinical training is augmented by robust scholarly activities with research opportunities available for those who are interested.

Billings Clinic is committed to personal service excellence as well as operational excellence with an organization framework that has allowed Billings Clinic to be a national leader in clinical quality, patient safety, service, value, and delivery system reform. As a physician led organization, we enact the core principles of physician leadership and a team approach to patient care. This focus on quality, safety, and leadership is foundational to resident education.

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Billings Clinic and the Region

Billings Clinic is a non-profit, multispecialty, fully integrated health care system that provides primary and specialty regional medical care to a wide geographic area encompassing much of Montana, northern Wyoming, and parts of western North and South Dakota. With a regional population of more than half a million, Billings Clinic provides services to a socioeconomically diverse group of patients, encompassing the urban population of Billings, small rural communities, and several Native American reservations. As the largest health care organization in Montana, our 304-bed, more than 400-physician institution possesses expertise in nearly every aspect of adult medical care, providing residents with a robust clinical experience. In addition to our 90-bed rehabilitation and assisted living facility, residents interact with numerous satellite facilities, nursing homes, transitional care facilities and critical access hospitals in the region.

Experience Rural Healthcare!

Each of our PGY2 and PGY3 residents experiences the ‘real world’ of the General Internist in a rural community through our Rural Rotation Program. You will spend two rotations in Lewistown and Hardin, MT. Through these rural rotations you will gain insight into the exciting possibilities and practical problems of health care delivery in a remote, rural setting.

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Culture of Billings Clinic

Teaching faculty are members of a integrated, multispecialty group practice with a common culture – Personal Service Excellence – which focuses on service to our patients and staff as a core value. This organizational framework has allowed Billings Clinic to be a national leader in clinical quality, patient safety, service, value, and delivery system reform. As a physician led organization, we teach the core principles of physician leadership and a team approach to patient care. This focus on quality, safety, and leadership is a core element of resident education.

Education

We strive to develop leaders in medical careers by offering:

• An integrated, collaborative learning environment. Our education curriculum is closely aligned with state-of-the-art approaches to teaching and learning for students, residents and faculty.activities, giving our learners the opportunity to see how cutting-edge teaching and health services research is translated to improved patient care.
• Outstanding faculty and mentors. Our faculty members are leading physicians who are passionate teachers, committed to providing mentorship and guidance through every step of training to ensure each resident’s success.
• Nationally recognized resources. Our residents learn in an advanced medical center, offering the highest quality medical facilities, state-of-the-art medical technology, and a superior medical and allied health staff.
• Unique education models. Our innovative education models provide a flexible curriculum and continual assessment and evaluation to ensure that each resident receives superior training and is prepared to meet the challenges of an ever-changing health care environment.
• Funded rural health rotations in rural training sites to enable our residents to function as superior providers in our environment of Montana and Wyoming, which covers large areas, with low population density and variable levels of patient care resources.
• Medical students from the University of Washington WWAMI Program and Pacific Northwest University are in our inpatient teaching services and our clinics.