From the Chair

Our training program offers a unique blend of resident responsibility, patient diversity and a most extraordinary spectrum of illnesses. The patient population we serve includes funded and unfunded patients from every walk of life and crosses every social strata within Miami- Dade County, neighboring counties and the Southeastern United States. Further, we serve as a respected referral center for patients from Latin America, the Caribbean basin, and the rest of the globe. The most indigent and most affluent occupy beds on our medical service and we are proud that the quality of medical care delivered is consistently excellent.

The multi-cultural environment where internal medicine training takes place is uniquely varied: the inpatient services at Jackson Memorial Hospital and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center comprise two of the many teaching venues available to our residents.  Camillus House, a nationally recognized facility for the homeless, provides residents a unique experience to treat and experience the problems of this growing population in America. Out-reach programs at community based clinics, ambulatory practice sites and satellite clinics are additional sites of housestaff education.

The full-time faculty of the Department of Medicine (numbering more than 200) serve as role models, clinician teachers and clinician investigators. They are recognized nationally for both the quality of clinical care they render and for their impressive research and teaching accomplishments.

As the Chair of Medicine, my role is to provide stability and leadership as I focus on moving this Department to the very forefront of academic excellence. One example is our establishing a new Division of academic Hospitalist Medicine, with a goal of starting a hospitalist pathway within our residency program. With its focus on research, patient safety and quality of care indices, and established curriculum in hospital medicine, this division will immediately impact the teaching service.

We are an academic medical center, and as such our tripartite mission is to provide excellent medical care to all including the poor, perform the latest in clinical and basic science research, and train the next generation of physicians, scientists and health care workers. Our residency training program is an integral part of my mission to develop the future leaders in Medicine.

Marc E. Lippman, M.D.
Kathleen & Stanley Glaser Professor; Chairman, Department of Medicine
Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami