Welcome to the Tulane Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Website

Tulane Medical School's Internal Medicine/Pediatric Residency Program is designed to develop excellent clinicians through comprehensive training and graduated responsibility for patient care. Residency training is enriched by life in New Orleans itself, a vibrant city with a heritage of medical excellence. This great city recently went through the ordeal of Hurricane Katrina and is still recovering from its devastating effect.

Since 1988, our major goal has been to develop the inquisitive mind, the crucial element of clinical and laboratory investigation, and superb patient care. While training at Tulane University Medical Center, Tulane Hospital for Children, Medical Center of Louisiana - New Orleans (MCLNO i.e. Charity Hospital) and Ochsner Clinic Foundation, you'll gain an in-depth understanding of normal growth and development, the aging process, and diseases that affect infants, children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. Through clinical experience and intensive faculty instruction, you'll gain broad knowledge in Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, and develop the essential skills of history-taking, physical examination and laboratory and clinical procedures.

Katrina and its aftermath has dramatically impacted our program and at the same time shown the resiliency and resourcefulness of our residents. Many current and past residents have been involved the immediate response to the disaster. A makeshift clinic started with the involvement of some Med-Peds residents in conjunction with Covenant House for first responders has now grown into a vibrant community health clinic. An entity supported by Tulane University, the Louisiana State Department of Health and Human Services, the State of Qatar and other nonprofit organizations.

In addition, some other residents were involved with DHHS leadership and medical response teams dispatched to various remote locations in affected areas. Still many other residents are now involved in the long term rebuilding efforts such as advocacy groups, teaching endeavors and research initiatives. We are proud of our residents and the many alumni who have made the conscious decision to remain in the area to help in the rebuilding of a still fragile and recovering health care system. The uncertainty associated with the early aftermath and more "attractive" positions offered elsewhere have not been enough to discourage their commitment to the people New Orleans.

The initial fear also associated with the possibility of the reduced patient population not enough to sustain medical education has evaporated since it's now official that over half of the city of New Orleans has returned. However, this was one of the reason among other factors that prompted us to accept only 2 new interns for the year 2006-2007 and only 4 for 2007-2008. It's looking as if next year we will be accepting 6 incoming interns. The storm has also resulted in the loss of some faculty members in both departments but with the full commitment of the Tulane leadership many new faculty have joined or are in the finalizing process of joining the program. Finally, although we lost our Med-Peds clinic with the unfortunate flooding of most MCLNO (Charity) clinics, we are slated to reopen our new Med-Peds clinic in the July 2007. In essence, as the trend suggests the program is recovering fast and has maintained most of what makes it a great program. From this point on, we are poised and striving to only get stronger.

When you, the resident, complete our program, you will have a strong foundation for a comprehensive primary care practice or subspecialty practice, as well as university or hospital-based practice, research or education. Whatever your ultimate goals, Tulane's Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program will give you the basis for a rewarding, fulfilling career.