Welcome to the Johns Hopkins General Internal Medicine Fellowship website!

Since 1978, we have trained more than 200 fellows who are now in leadership positions in academia and public health across the country. We are proud of our alumni network and are looking to recruit the next generation of talented fellows to our program.

As an intern at Johns Hopkins Hospital, I had never heard of a General Internal Medicine Fellowship and started my residency thinking I’d need to subspecialize to pursue a career focused on diabetes prevention. Fortunately, early on, I found out I was wrong. I met Dr. Fred Brancati, the Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the time, and learned about a career in academic general internal medicine. He explained GIM was the “Renaissance” specialty, and I was sold. I completed the clinical research track of our fellowship and haven’t looked back. I have found a fulfilling career focused on diabetes prevention research with a clinical focus on primary care.

My path was one path, but each of our fellows has a different story – different reasons they come to fellowship and diverse interests. Some fellows arrive focused and know exactly what they want to do and follow that path. Some fellows arrive focused but their interests and focus evolve during fellowship. And some arrive knowing they want to impact our health care system but aren’t sure of just how to do that. In our fellowship program, we support fellows to define their individual paths and work with them to achieve their goals.

The cornerstone of our fellowship training program is mentorship, but we don’t assign mentors at the outset. Each fellow arrives and meets with multiple faculty with potential overlapping interests, and with the support of the fellowship, establishes a mentorship team tailored to their needs. This mentored research experience is buttressed by two main conferences:

1. The weekly fellows seminar series focused on professional development and advanced research methods.
2. Research in Progress in which fellows present their research and receive peer and faculty feedback.

We conduct these conferences with the General Academic Pediatrics Fellows to foster networking across the University. Fellows in the research track complete a Master of Health Science in Clinical Investigation if they do not already have a research degree, and fellows in the medical education track complete the Johns Hopkins Bayview Faculty Development Program which provides longitudinal training in teaching skills and curriculum development.

Over the past six years (2017-2023), 32 fellows have graduated from our program. Twenty-three (72%) started academic investigator positions out of fellowship, and 10 of our recent research track graduates (43%) have already received career development (K) awards. All six (19%) of our recent medical education graduates accepted clinician-educator positions after fellowship. Please visit our alumni page to learn more about them.

I want to take a moment to mention the experience of training in Baltimore. Johns Hopkins itself is a remarkable institution and the City of Baltimore is fertile ground for those of us hoping to improve health disparities and health equity. Baltimore is also affordable compared to comparable cities and offers a rich culture of food, entertainment, and sports. It’s surprisingly easy to get around the city as well.

I hope you take the time to visit the rest of our website to learn more about what makes our fellowship special, our program objectives, our current fellows, and our alumni.

We are always available to discuss if applying to our fellowship is right for you and any other questions you may have. Please get in touch with GIM Fellowship Program Coordinator Julie Kurtz at [email protected].