ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway Application Requirements

For those students who are committed to post-residency subspecialty fellowship training with a major focus on a research career, we encourage you to consider our ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway which we offer as a training program within our Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program.

Application Process

We encourage applicants with strong commitments to research careers to apply to Yale Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program's ABIM Physician-Scientist Residency Pathway 2-year training program at the time of application (see table below). In addition to submitting an application through ERAS, applicants for Yale's ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway should send an email to Dr. Charles S. Dela Cruz, Director of Yale's ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway, and Tatianna Hilton, Administrative Assistant, with the following information:

1. Statement of interest in the Yale ABIM Physician-Scientist Residency Pathway.
2. Areas of possible subspecialty interest so that appropriate interviews with fellowship program(s) can be arranged at the time of residency interviews.
3. Names of Yale faculty identified as possible research mentors (not required).

Applicants will be considered for admission to Yale's ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway through the NRMP Match. Please note that the Yale Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program now has three (3) training programs listed on the NRMP website (see table below); a categorical 3-year training program, a Preliminary 1-year training program, and the ABIM Physician-Scientist 2-year training program.

State	City	Program Name	ACGME ID	Training Program	NRMP No.
CT	New Haven	Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program	1400821085	Categorical 3-year	1089140CO
CT	New Haven	Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program	1400821085	Preliminary 1-year	1089140PO
CT	New Haven	Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program	1400821085	ABIM Physician-Scientist 2-year	1089140C1

All applicants to Yale's ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway will also be considered candidates for the Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program's categorical 3-year training program. If you would like to be considered for both training program, please list them in your order of preference. If you match into Yale's ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway, you will be placed into the ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway training program when you arrive. If you match into the Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program for the categorical 3-year training program, you will be placed into the categorical training program when you arrive. Please see interview dates.

Please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Charles S. Dela Cruz, Dr. Mark Siegel or Tatianna Hilton should you have any questions.

Please see the ABIM Research Pathway (Yale Physician-Scientist Residency Pathway) webpage for additional information.