In today’s health care landscape, patients are frequently grappling with complex medical conditions requiring diagnosis of challenging symptoms, extensive care, and multi-organ conditions. For these patients, UHN’s Internal Medicine (IM) program provides comprehensive, specialized and coordinated care. Specialists throughout the UHN look to IM doctors for their wide breadth of knowledge and expertise for patients who do not yet have a unifying diagnosis or for patients with diseases beyond the scope of one medical specialty.

The IM service is responsible for over 50% of all patients hospitalized at UHN, and the vast majority of IM cases are unplanned and come through the emergency room or as a result of 911 calls. IM patient wards are located at both Toronto General Hospital and Toronto Western Hospital and are the largest inpatient units at UHN. These wards are also the home to Clinical Teaching Units, where faculty physicians provide foundational training in all aspects of internal medicine. This critical training ensures that medical students, residents, fellows and members of multidisciplinary health care teams are skilled at caring for the whole patient with the utmost compassion and humanistic approach.