The overarching mission of the Department of Internal Medicine is the pursuit of excellence in each facet of its tripartite mission:
To educate the physicians and health care professionals of tomorrow, the physicians and health care professionals of today and the community-at-large;
To provide superior, compassionate and innovative clinical care to our patients using state-of-the-art knowledge and resources;
To conduct and disseminate cutting-edge biomedical research and scholarship, with a focus on translational research that can be quickly applied to the care of patients.