Primary Care Track

Our Aurora Health Care IM Primary Care Track was created to train physician leaders in primary care, general internal medicine, and ambulatory subspecialty medicine who are deeply committed to the care of patients from disinvested communities. Our mission is to provide residents outstanding clinical training in outpatient and inpatient general internal medicine while fostering their skills to lead meaningful change in the health of the communities they serve. It is an institutional priority that residents learn how to think about health equity, structural inequality, community engagement, clinician advocacy, quality improvement, and evidence-based care.

Meet the Primary Care Program Director

Victoria Gillet, MD

I love resident education because I know it makes me a better physician for my patients, and it is a joy to get to know our residents over my three years with them. I graduated from a Primary Care IM residency with amazing mentors that prepared me to be an excellent ambulatory physician. It is my privilege to do the same for you.

I have my own primary care practice at the Sinai resident continuity clinic site with a special interest in LGBTQ+ healthcare. My favorite things to teach and advocate about are structural competency, health equity, and climate justice. I'm a full-year commuter cyclist and have a mischievous and adorable corgi named Pepperjack.

Primary Care Curriculum

Primary Care residents rotate through the same core inpatient clinical rotations as Categorical residents, rotating on general internal medicine wards and intensive care units at both Sinai and St Luke’s Hospital. The rest of their clinical time is spent on dedicated ambulatory block rotations.

This enriched ambulatory time is devoted to direct patient care in the resident's continuity clinics, core subspecialty experiences, clinical electives, a mentored longitudinal community health project, and didactics focused on ambulatory medicine, community health, and physician advocacy. Primary Care residents all have continuity clinic at Sinai Internal Medicine Center, which prides itself on caring for an urban, medically complex population of patients. During their R2 and R3 years Primary Care residents spend 4 weeks practicing ambulatory medicine in one of Aurora’s rural referral centers (within easy driving distance of Milwaukee) to understand how to effectively provide healthcare for disinvested rural communities.