Teamwork and Community

Resident Community

Our program balances outstanding academic & clinical preparation and scholarly work with a wonderfully warm, collegial, and supportive environment. Our residents and faculty are a diverse group of people who are kind, uniquely supportive of one another, committed to excellence, actively engaged in making the program better, and who are all essential in creating our extended residency program family. While we may seem like a big program at Henry Ford you will truly be joining a family.

We work together, we have fun together, we spend time at sporting events, concerts, happy hours, colleagues' weddings, research conferences, and even celebrate holidays together. It is not uncommon to have dinners with faculty. Below are a series of pictures highlighting some of the fun we have had together over the 3 years in residency. We hope that you will one day be joining our Henry Ford Internal Medicine family.

Living in Detroit

Metro Detroit has something for everyone – The hospital is situated in the New Center area of Detroit. Our urban setting allows us to explore all the great activities the city has to offer – culture, sports, food/drinks, and outdoor activities. A short drive away offers the surrounding cities that neighbor Detroit!

Several of the Detroit Metro area suburbs are ranked among the top safest cities in the US

Lots to do in downtown: restaurants, sports, concerns, theatre, opera, museums, Detroit Riverwalk, marathons, and more!

Outdoor activities: Michigan is the world‘s longest freshwater coastline, with >100 public beaches, Traverse City makes for a nice weekend getaway!

Spectacular cost of living

Detroit is one of the most affordable big cities in the U.S. This makes your already-competitive resident salary go a lot further than in other major cities.

Activities in and around Detroit

Downtown Detroit is 20 minutes from a number of other great areas including Royal Oak, Berkeley and Ferndale with a variety of their own dining, night life, and community events to partake in. You are also only 45 minutes from downtown Ann Arbor home of the University of Michigan, and an hour from East Lansing home of the Michigan State Spartans.

Additional resources to learn about Detroit!

• Visit Detroit
• Detroit Experience Factory
• Pure Michigan

Resident Wellness

Wellness and Community

When you come to Henry Ford, you are joining a family of motivated, passionate, and outstanding individuals. The relationships you develop here will be lifelong and will be the bedrock as you progress through your medical career. We recognize the importance of effectively integrating your medical career and personal life.

Here at Henry Ford, we have a wellness committee led by Dr. Lisa MacLean, the director of physician wellness. We work on areas such as resilience, burnout, fatigue, well-being, and mental health support.

What we do to support your wellness

• Graduate Medical Education Committee's Wellness Subcommittee
• Weekends are typically free on elective months
• Schedule requests on GPU and ICU months
• Four weeks of Paid Time Off (vacation)
• Retreats
• Organized social/service activities

Resident Perks

Internal Medicine "Werk Perks"

• Paid ACP membership
• Free catered lunch is provided for most noon conference days
• Henry Ford Hospital provided iPhone (in place of pagers/beepers)
• $1,500 meal stipend for in-hospital food purchases
• Individual MKSAP subscription
• Five (5) days for interviews in senior year - not vacation days
• Up to $1,500 in travel per year to present posters/research at regional and national meetings (and time off depending on your rotation)
• Professional Development Fund:
• PGY-1: $1000
• PGY-2: $1000
• PGY-3: $1,650
• On-campus free covered parking
• Free White coats (including laundry for the white coats)
• Business cards
• Free coffee in the House Officer lounge
• 24-hour access to Hospital Medical Library resources
• Free Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification
• As a Henry Ford Health employee, you can take advantage of several discount programs and special offers. Employees are eligible for corporate discounts sports events, concerts, child care, prescription drugs, hotels, cellphone service, computers, software and more!
• Henry Ford Hospital On-Campus Apartment rental in Detroit

Retreats and Events

In addition to the outstanding clinical experiences with our patients and faculty, we work toward developing skills that you will need to be successful in your career, which include teaching skills, leadership, patient safety and quality improvement, communication, and professionalism. Here are some of the events that help achieve these goals:

Senior Leadership Retreat: Between the second and third-year, residents have a “senior retreat” focusing on leadership as they transition to being seniors on the inpatient floors.

Institutional Curriculum: A series of sessions focusing on error disclosure, hand off, informed consent, unequal care, and delivering serious news.

Community Service

Many residents and faculty participate in various volunteer events to give back to our community, socialize and grow together, and stay well.

• Cabrini Clinic- the oldest free clinic in the U.S.
• Gleaner's Community Food Bank
• Freedom House Detroit
• Earthworks Urban Farm - Soup Kitchen

Diversity and Inclusion

At Henry Ford Hospital, we embrace the diversity of our residents, students, faculty, and staff by fostering a culture of Inclusive Excellence. Inclusive Excellence is the intentional driver of diversity and inclusion, harnessing the differences, talents and unique qualities of all individuals at our college.

Hospital Resources

Check out our HFHS office of System Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion here

Employee Resources Groups:

• Amigos de HFHS - Hispanic/Latino Employee Resource Group
• eMERGe - Middle Eastern Employee Resource Group
• GenERG-Y - Generation Y/Millennials Employee Resource Group
• iCare4U - Employee Caregivers Employee Resources Group
• Pride - Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual and Transgender Employee Resource group
• Women's Improvement Network (WIN)- Group that enhances the professional, personal, and family lives of working women at HFH.
• Achieving Better Life Experiences (ABLE)- To empower and retain HFH employee with disabilities by providing support to promote independence, education, and awareness
• emPOWER- Encourages all employees to advance their skills and leadership potential
• HF4Vets- Support the unique needs of of HFH employees who are veterans