Message from our Director

Dear Future Internists,

We’re thrilled you’re here, even if it’s just a quick stop on your residency research journey! 

Let me tell you about our program. We’re not just about mastering medicine—although you’ll leave here as a diagnostic wizard, trusted healer, and master of the EHR. We’re about finding joy in the journey, building lifelong friendships, and growing into the kind of doctor who inspires patients and colleagues alike.

Our curriculum is designed with you in mind. Whether your future is as a hospitalist, a primary care physician, or a subspecialist extraordinaire, we’ve got the structure to help you thrive. Your journey will include floor rotations, ICU experiences, and a variety of subspecialty rotations. Columbia St. Mary’s, our tertiary care center in Milwaukee, is equipped with cutting-edge facilities and expert faculty. Our secondary site, St. Joseph, is a hospital that provides care to a medically underserved community in Milwaukee. With exposure at more than one site, you’ll gain invaluable experience providing care where it’s needed most—and make a real difference.

Our primary care clinic on North Avenue serves a vast and diverse population, giving you hands-on experience with exposure that will allow you to build the skills you’ll need to handle anything that comes your way as a primary care physician. You’ll become a master of preventative care, chronic disease management, and forming those meaningful patient-doctor relationships that are the heart of primary care.

Our ambulatory curriculum is incredibly well-rounded—you’ll rotate through outpatient specialties like Endocrinology, Rheumatology, and Hematology/Oncology, gaining insights that will make you an even more comprehensive, confident, and well-prepared physician. You even have the option of 6 months of "individualized learning” to help foster you on the path to your success. 

Our program is the perfect blend of evidence-based, scientific community medicine, with a strong pillar of academic and scholarly inquiry. Our program balances rigor with camaraderie. From day one, you’ll be part of a community that celebrates wins, supports each other through challenges, and believes in having fun along the way. Whether it’s cracking cases in Morning Report, or discovering your love for a subspecialty, there’s never a dull moment.

We know residency is tough—it’s called training for a reason—but here, you’ll have a team of mentors and faculty who’ve got your back. We’re here to guide you, cheer you on, and occasionally remind you that it’s okay to take a break!

We can’t wait to meet you, learn about your passions, and help you become the Internist you’re destined to be!

Vaishnavy Bhaskaruni, MD, Internal Medicine Residency Program Director