Training Sites
Residents of Saint Mary’s Internal Medicine Program experience a wide variety of medical specialties and services through multiple training sites.
Saint Mary's Hospital
Saint Mary's Hospital is an acute care, community teaching hospital located in Waterbury, Connecticut, 18 miles from Yale University School of Medicine, and within a 2-hour drive from both Boston and New York City. Because Saint Mary’s serves a region that includes an urban center, suburban communities, and farming areas, resident physicians receive a broad number of experiences both in the inpatient and outpatient settings. The hospital, in partnership with Waterbury Hospital, is affiliated with the Harold Leever Regional Cancer Center, which is involved in a myriad of clinical trials, and the Heart Center of Greater Waterbury, which provides primary and elective angioplasty and coronary artery bypass surgery.
A significant number of our community physicians were trained locally in the Saint Mary’s Hospital program, or through the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Training Program. As such, they take exceptional pride in their hospital and community.
On site, the residency program is assisted by a full-time program coordinator, program director, associate program directors, many key clinical faculty, and many distinguished part-time teaching faculty. Click here for more information on what makes Saint Mary’s Hospital such an exceptional training environment.
Family Health Center
The Family Health Center (FHC) was created in 1930 as a vital part of Saint Mary’s Hospital’s link to the Waterbury community, and in keeping with its mission and goals. It serves 90% of the uninsured and Medicaid-insured population in the Waterbury area. Because it has hosted residents since 1963, it is well-equipped to support a large number of providers and their patients. The clinic also hosts several specialty practices, including dermatology, general surgery (including breast clinic) and surgical subspecialties, geriatrics, hypertension, obstetrics and gynecology, and psychiatry and substance abuse. The FHC continues to serve as the continuity clinic site for the Yale Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program as well. Supportive services include:
- Secure computer access to radiology films and reports, hospital dictations, inpatient and outpatient labs, and cardiology reports
- Coumadin clinic
- Diabetes and nutritional counseling
- Full-time financial counseling and social services
- Primary care treatment of hepatitis C and HIV
- Interpreter services
Because full-time faculty and the clinic medical director also see patients, the clinical is fully functional even when resident sessions are not on site. Patients thus are provided with 24-hour beeper access, and urgent care visits are readily available to them. Rebecca Newell, MD is the Medical Director of the Saint Mary’s Family Health Center.
Yale-New Haven Hospital
Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH), one of the oldest established hospitals in the United States, is a tertiary referral center and an urban community hospital with approximately 900 beds. Residents care for patients with common medical problems and patients with severe disease who might benefit from bone marrow and cardiac transplantation, cortical stimulation and stereotactic neurosurgery, investigative cancer protocols, and other new and innovative technological advances. Residents at Saint Mary’s Hospital participate in the elective rotations offered at YNHH and research opportunities.