Graduate Medical Education
Welcome
Boston Medical Center (BMC) is the sponsoring institution for forty-four (44) ACGME-accredited specialty and sub-specialty residency programs affiliated with thirty-two (32) participating institutions, supporting a total of 586 residents, plus 45 residents in the combined Childrens Hospital/BMC Programs in Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and Pediatric Infectious Disease.
BMC’s Graduate Medical Education Department educates and prepares physicians for board eligibility in a variety of medical disciplines through curricula which reflect an appropriate balance of patient care, education and research.
Mission Statement
Boston Medical Center (BMC) is dedicated to providing high quality, comprehensive, culturally relevant health care as an academic teaching hospital. BMC pursues this mission through sponsorship of graduate medical education programs.
It is the primary goal of graduate medical education at BMC to educate and prepare physicians for board eligibility in a variety of medical disciplines through curricula which reflect an appropriate balance of patient care, education, and research. In addition, graduate medical education at BMC emphasizes the following goals:
- To provide organized and academically rigorous programs of education which foster physicians’ professional development as skilled, ethical, and compassionate clinicians, sensitive and capable of meeting the challenges of a changing healthcare environment and assuring high quality patient care
- To promote research and scholarly activities relevant to the medical care of our patients and the educational needs of our trainees; and
- To promote the development of a system of graduate medical education and patient care which may include collaboration with other institutions and affiliated community health centers.
Approved by the Graduate Medical Education Committee on April 26, 2004.
