The Division of General Internal Medicine (GIM) at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine consists of 51 faculty physicians engaged in teaching, patient care, research and service activities. We are organized into 11 clinical, educational and research units with activities conducted at The University of Cincinnati, The University Hospital, the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the Institute for the Study of Health and at multiple ambulatory practice sites in the community.

Division faculty provide a substantial amount of direct patient care in multiple settings. Most of our faculty devote a majority of their time to clinical practice.

The Division of General Internal Medicine (GIM) faculty provide a substantial amount of the medical student and resident teaching for the Department of Internal Medicine. For example, approximately 46 of the 96 general medicine ward attending months are staffed by members of the division. The division also runs a GIM consultation service and has a robust and growing faculty hospitalist program consisting of 3 uncovered general medicine services. Division faculty also are primarily responsible for the medicine residents' continuity clinic and for the ambulatory component of the third-year internal medicine clerkship. Division faculty are leading the ACGME's recently awarded EIP (Educational Innovations Project) that is helping to reshape the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Faculty are also leading the academic health center's involvement in numerous other quality agendas including the AAMC Chronic Illness Care Education Project and the recently completed Chronic Care Collaborative, the program for Achieving Competency Today (ACT) and the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Care Transition Project, to name a few. GIM faculty have a large commitment to the new Center for Competency Development and Assessment and the annual clinical competency examination of the medical students transitioning into their fourth year. In addition to these major activities, faculty also teach physical diagnosis, lead the department's AHEC program, and perform other miscellaneous teaching activities.

Beyond their contribution to the clinical training of our medical students and residents, our faculty put a major emphasis on nurturing their interests in developing academic careers. Medical students and residents are encouraged to develop either clinical vignettes or research presentations to enter into competitions at numerous regional and national meetings. Year after year our students and residents have had abstracts accepted at venues including the regional and national annual meetings of the Society of General Internal Medicine and the American College of Physicians. The division's research activities continue to improve and expand. Division faculty have had a steady number of publications in respected journals over the last 10 years. Investigators in our Center for Clinical Effectiveness and in our newly established Center for Health Informatics in the medical center's Institute for the Study of Health are pursuing research focused on topics including health-related quality of life, cost-effectiveness analysis and pharmacoeconomics, decision analysis and simulation modeling, medical and clinical research informatics, the development of decision support tools to facilitate patient-centered decision making, quality of care and patient safety and health disparities. Clinical areas of research in the center include HIV/AIDS, geriatrics, atrial fibrillation, thrombosis, anticoagulation therapy, developmental disorders, prevention and wellness. Other major focus areas for clinical research in the division include transitional care, sickle cell disease, end of life care, medical education, hyperlipidemias and headache.