Program Overview

The Department of Internal Medicine at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro, AR is dedicated to training residents for careers in general internal medicine or further training in a subspecialty area. The program’s curriculum is centered on patient-based learning, a core schedule emphasizing pathology of disease as well as diagnostic processes and clinical management skills. Our training program is designed to assume competency in the key domain as defined by the Accreditation council for Graduate Medical Education: Patient Care, Medical Knowledge, Practice-based learning and improvement, Interpersonal and Communication skills, Professionalism, and System-based practice. We are a program which employs, educates and serves our community.

Community Based Residency

Our program is unique because it is a community-rooted residency with academic resources and opportunities.  Jonesboro is a medical hub for all surrounding communities, providing our residents ample opportunities to gain experience treating patients from the entire Northeast Arkansas area. Our Internal Medicine residents at NEA Baptist receive subspecialty exposure with hands-on primary care on one of the most advanced integrated medical campuses in the state of Arkansas.

Baptist Memorial Health Care and NEA Clinic partnered in 2010 to form NEA Baptist Healthcare System - a not-for-profit, integrated health system in Jonesboro.  The partnership with NEA Clinic and its long-standing commitment to the Northeast Arkansas community gave Baptist the confidence to invest more than $400 million in the medical campus—the single largest investment made by Baptist in any community and the largest health care investment in Arkansas in the last decade. 

Benefits

Residents, their spouses and dependent children have the opportunity to participate in health, dental and vision plans. Additional insurance coverage available to our residents includes basic life/accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, cancer insurance, pet health insurance, liability insurance, disability insurance, transitional duty program, and workers' compensation. Paid time off, medical leave, and approved administrative leave for scientific presentations, medical conferences, USMLE/COMLEX testing, and interviews, are included as residency benefits, as well.

Our residents also receive a one-time relocation reimbursement, full access to physician dining, free parking, two white coats and a generous educational allowance towards program specific board review and applicable books, dues and subscriptions.

Additional benefits include: UpToDate provided via Baptist OneCare/Epic, MKSAP (Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program) Complete (digital copy) provided for PGY-1s, registration for the ACP IM-ITE (American College of Physicians’ Internal Medicine In-Training Examination) - scheduled and paid for by the GME Department, access to the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Knowledge Plus, an effective computer-based learning and internal medicine board review course, membership to the American College of Physicians (ACP), including the local chapter, access to DynaMed Plus, free print and online subscription to the Annals of Internal Medicine,  BLS and ACLS certification, malpractice insurance, and the Sanford Guide (app access). DEA and Arkansas Medical License costs are also covered by the program.