Chair's Welcome
Welcome to the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.
The UMKC School of Medicine is an educationally innovative medical school, and the Department of Internal Medicine is central to our educational program. The majority of our medical students enter the program after secondary school and will earn both baccalaureate and medical degrees in six years. Students and internal medicine faculty are organized in small academic units called docent teams composed of 12 students and one faculty member (docent). This docent system emphasizes collegiality and a team approach to learning and patient care. The School of Medicine also accepts a smaller number of post-baccalaureate students into its M.D. only program. Those students are also organized into small academic teams headed by department faculty.
The docent teams are academic families that provide a unique four-year learning experience with early clinical exposure under the tutelage of a single faculty member from our department.
Postgraduate Training Programs
Our department also offers accredited post-graduate training programs, including residencies in categorical internal medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics, and preliminary internal medicine, and fellowships in cardiovascular disease (including subspecialties of interventional cardiology and clinical cardiac electrophysiology), critical care medicine, gastroenterology, hematology, infectious disease, medical oncology and pulmonary medicine. Learn more about these programs.
CATEGORICAL INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY
Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency
Preliminary residency program track
Clinical Sites
The Department of Medicine at UMKC utilizes two clinical campuses for its teaching programs, Saint Luke’s Hospital and University Health Centers.
Saint Luke’s Hospital is a leading healthcare institution with a strong tradition of excellence in patient care and medical teaching for over one hundred years. Saint Luke’s is a tertiary medical center, and in particular, houses outstanding clinical and research programs in cardiovascular medicine, oncology and neurology.
University Health Truman Medical Center (UHTMC), previously Kansas City General Hospital, has provided excellent medical care and medical education for over 125 years. UHTMC is proud of its role as the safety net hospital for Kansas City and Jackson County, Mo. Our department provides the majority of inpatient and ambulatory visits for patients of this busy urban hospital. We also provide primary care internal medicine and a wide array of subspecialties in an academic and patient-centered environment.
Department Research
The Department of Internal Medicine is involved in both basic and clinical research, but its emphasis is on clinical research directed at improving health outcomes. Two programs in particular typify that goal — the Cardiovascular Education and Outcomes Research program of the Mid-America Heart Institute of Saint Luke’s Hospital and the Hicklin Office for Health Services and Public Health Outcomes Research program of UMKC, which is centered at University Health Truman Medical Center. These programs exemplify our department's commitment to improving the health of our patients and our community through research. We are committed in particular to improving disparities of health in traditionally underserved patient populations.
Committed to the Community
Our department is a vibrant community of medical scholars working at two outstanding healthcare institutions under the UMKC School of Medicine banner. We strive to provide our patients, trainees and the medical community with outstanding clinical care, teaching and clinical research. We as a department, and I personally, pledge to do this in a professional, collegial and open fashion, with a strong dedication to excellence and to the advancement of medical science.
Thank you for visiting our department and taking the time to get to know us better.
With best regards,
Jill Moormeier, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor and Chair, Department of Internal Medicine