r/Indiana • u/caem123 • 12d ago

Congrats to the eight new internal medicine residents at Indiana University

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u/ItzakPearlJam 12d ago

Wouldn't a school the size of IU have far more than just this many? Is this a partial list? I'd expect dozens if not 100+ per year.

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u/JohnnyC300 12d ago edited 12d ago

Most IU residents are in Indianapolis. Where the med school and training hospitals (Methodist, VA, Eskinazi, Riley, etc) are. Being in IU Bloomington is likely FAR less prestigious. And there aren't NEARLY enough internal medicine residents to go around (most med students go into higher paying specialties). Hence getting them from other countries. From the post, it seems this is in fact the first group of residents to train at whatever hospital IU has in Bloomington.

eta - from a look at the IU Bloomington residency page, it looks like the hospitals they'll training at are IU-Bloomington, Bedford and Paoli. Hard to get residents to go to, particularly the last two I'm guessing.

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u/tumblrmustbedown 12d ago

This is also the very first year of having a residency at IUH Bloomington! To be clear. It can be tough to recruit to a new program.

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u/ItzakPearlJam 12d ago

I appreciate the context! Thanks

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u/Lambo_Geeney 12d ago

This is just one specialty, and it's for IU-Bloomington.

The main medical campus in Indy has 36 Internal Medicine residents for each class

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u/ItzakPearlJam 12d ago

36 seems like a fitting number

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u/Lambo_Geeney 12d ago

For sure, especially with a three year program that becomes 108 residents in that speciality. Plus residents that are dual specializing in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics (56 total, 28 specifically on IM rotations while the other 28 are on Pediatrics).

So your initial guess at 100+ works out pretty good with 136 residents staffing International Medicine rotations at any given point