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Thank you for your interest in our Internal Medicine Residency Program at Corewell Health East, William Beaumont University Hospital- Royal Oak. Our program is a source of extraordinary pride to our health system, our medical school, our hospital, and our community – and we welcome this opportunity to share its many features with you.

The William Beaumont University Hospital, Royal Oak Internal Medicine Residency Program is deeply committed to the success of its residents. We seek out tremendously talented, highly motivated, passionate physicians who are dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in internal medicine or its subspecialties.

We provide our trainees with many diverse clinical experiences and patient care settings, an engaged and highly skilled faculty, a thoughtfully structured curriculum, stimulating and productive research experiences. Our residents thrive in our supportive and nurturing learning environment and go on to serve their respective communities as exemplary clinicians and scholars.

As a graduate of this program, long-time faculty, and now program director I am proud of how we have grown and changed to meet the needs of residents and modern medicine. I am excited and grateful to have the privilege of leading this program as we continue to grow and help our amazing physicians establish their careers.

I look forward to meeting you!

Sincerely,

Aimee Espinosa, MD, FACP
Program Director
Ambulatory Clinical Faculty
Internal Medicine Residency
Associate Professor
Director, Stanford Clinical Teaching Program
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
William Beaumont University Hospital
3601 West Thirteen Mile Road
Royal Oak, MI 48073

About the Residency

The Internal Medicine Residency Program at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak is provided for physicians who desire a career in general internal medicine or one of its subspecialties. Our goal is to provide a structured educational environment for the training of internists, and to provide each trainee with an experience of such high quality that graduates of our program have the option of pursuing a career in either primary care general internal medicine or an internal medicine subspecialty.

To accomplish this goal, we offer residents a broad array of clinical and didactic experiences designed to refine the clinical and intellectual skills needed by a modern internist. We augment these experiences with carefully designed, individualized curricula that are tailored to the unique training needs of prospective primary care internists and future medical subspecialists. By participating in these activities under the supervision of committed faculty, a resident in our program develops the ability to think and act independently with the compassion and skill of a knowledgeable clinician.

Internal Medicine Patient Population

The size of the Teaching Service is under the control of the Residency Program Director, who also monitors the types of patient illnesses represented on the Teaching Service. Residents manage a cross-section of the patients admitted to the Department of Medicine, and all patients admitted to critical care areas of the department. Patients not admitted to the teaching service are cared for by attending physicians with the assistance of hospital-based general internists and/or physician extenders. This structure limits admission volume and daily census to educationally appropriate levels, and provides an inpatient experience for the residents that emphasizes continuity of care and progressive responsibility.

Beaumont Hospital is situated in southern Oakland County, a very diverse area with a population from a wide range of racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. This diversity creates an outstanding opportunity to manage a wide variety of medical conditions and fascinating diseases. Many of the patients under the care of our residents are from underserved populations.

Internal Medicine Medical Student Programs

Medical students are an integral part of the department's educational programs. Students from the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine (OUWB) receive their clinical training in physical diagnosis at Beaumont. Third-year students from OUWB complete their required clerkship in internal medicine by rotating on our inpatient general medicine services and in the outpatient clinics. Fourth-year medical students from OUWB complete their required sub-internship in internal medicine at Beaumont, Royal Oak.

Additionally, elective rotations are provided for fourth-year students in each of the department's subspecialty divisions. This broad student involvement greatly contributes to the general academic environment, and allows our residents to function as teachers.