The Summa Department of Internal Medicine is committed to providing supervised, hands on learning for rotating students. Senior residents and faculty have been trained to observe your skills in action and to give you formative feedback to improve your competence in the core skills needed to effectively care for medical patients. Our program benefits from its charter membership in the ACGME's Educational Innovations Project (2006-2016), which relates student and resident learning modules to patient outcomes and safety. You will notice this difference in our learning culture as soon as you join our team as a student learner.

During your learning experience you will receive a tour and orientation of our facilities at the Akron City Hospital main campus. Host to 10 residencies and 8 fellowships, the main hospital is a community based facility with an academic pedigree. There is a capacity of 500 beds, a critical care tower with intensive care and heart-lung unit, and a dedicated cancer center. Enclosed, elevated walkways connect specialty offices. A residency based ambulatory care center (Internal Medicine Center) is a AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) Level 3 certified Patient Centered Home where an interprofessional team achieves high outcomes by actively engaging patients with chronic disease.

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Every learner who joins us for their rotation will benefit from the competence, passion for medical education and wisdom of our department's modern founder, James (Jim) S. Tan. An internationally known specialist in infectious disease, immunology and internal medicine, Dr. Tan was an author and researcher and an awarded medical educator. Dr. Tan shaped our faculty culture around patient centered care, evidence-based medicine and boldly innovative training of the next generation of physicians-- before the wider world of medicine knew these were critical. A true visionary and tireless educator, Dr. Tan's values are alive and well, guiding our department to excellence in a new century. Ask any of our seasoned faculty whom he trained for a story of Dr. Tan's impact on their career, and you will experience a reminder of this medical leader's legacy of brilliance and life change for clinicians.