Internal Medicine Residency Program Director | Jackson, MI

Program Director for Internal Medicine at Henry Ford Jackson

Background: Internal Medicine program at Jackson fosters an outstanding clinical learning environment to train residents to deliver compassionate, high quality patient care. The program encourages and guides resident physicians to achieve academic and clinical excellence with a patient-centered, evidence-based medicine.  Henry Ford Jackson is a community hospital that works for high quality care with a caring culture for our patients, residents, and faculty.

There are 24 approved resident positions in this 3-year program. 

Program Director Internal Medicine Residency- This position provides 0.5 FTE support for administration of the program.  This includes recruitment, administrative requirements, all ACGME required oversight, evaluation and promotion of residents, remediation of residents, graduate verification, curriculum development and program oversight.

The Program Director reports to the Chair of the Henry Ford Health Internal Medicine Department and to the Designated Institutional Official for program outcomes. 

The Program Director must be Board certified in Internal Medicine and must be clinically active at the primary site where the residents train. Program directors are expected to have scholarly activity (research, peer reviewed grants, quality improvement or patient safety initiatives, systemic reviews, chapters in textbooks, case reports, creation of curricula, contribution to professional committees, educational organizations, editorial boards or innovations in education). 

Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint area locations, Henry Ford now offers care in 550 locations, including 13 acute care hospitals, 3 behavioral health facilities (featuring 2 world-class addiction treatment centers), a state-of-the-art orthopedics and sports medicine facility, and multiple cancer care destinations, including the Brigitte Harris Cancer Pavilion in Detroit.

Our full continuum of services spans from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, complemented by a health insurance plan, home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, and eye care. Henry Ford Health is powered by 50,000 dedicated team members committed to delivering exceptional care and fostering innovation.

Based in Detroit, we're leading the Future of Health: Detroit initiative, a $3 billion investment centered on reimagining our academic healthcare campus. Our mission extends beyond patient care to include cutting-edge research and education, with a focus on innovation, population health, and complex care.

For those interested in joining our team, learn more about career opportunities at henryford.com/careers.

The 420-bed Henry Ford Jackson Hospital is Magnet® designated and a Level II Trauma Center. Acute care services are complemented by more than 40 community-based ambulatory locations. The hospital’s broad range of specialty services includes cardiac surgery and minimally invasive structural heart procedures, neurosurgery and advanced cancer care, as well as home health care and hospice services, and the Henry Ford Hospice Home, the only hospice residence in Jackson County.