Medical Education

Welcome to Griffin Hospital Residency Home Page. The Yale University-Griffin Hospital Residency Programs combine the academic advantages of a internationally recognized university medical center with an excellent progressive, medium-sized community hospital. Griffin Hospital, with the collaboration of Yale University School of Public Health offers most innovative training program in Combined Internal Medicine & Preventive Medicine. We also offer Preliminary Medicine, Categorical Internal Medicine and Transitional Residency Programs. At Griffin Hospital, residents are provided with an intense teaching program in a personalized, friendly and stimulating atmosphere.

At Griffin Hospital, the various clinical departments are closely integrated and readily accessible, allowing for excellent, personal physician communication. while training at Yale, the resident is exposed to the benefits of a tertiary care institution and to a internationally renowned faculty.

Located in Derby, Connecticut, a town of approximately 12,000 residents, 10 miles from New Haven and the Yale University School of Medicine, and an hour-and-a-half from New York City, Griffin Hospital is a member of the Planetree Alliance, a non-profit organization with a strong belief in patient-focused care. Griffin is a very unique medium-sized community facility providing care for approximately 100,000 people who live in six towns, an area known as the Lower Naugatuck Valley.

Griffin Hospital has recently completed construction of a new patient care facility which has received numerous national awards for its healing environment and innovative design. Griffin's facilities allow for the delivery of state of the art medical care with a focus on patient and family involvement and comfort.

Griffin Hospital's patient focused philosophy of care uses a primary nursing model, where the primary nurse is responsible for coordination of nursing care throughout a patients' stay. Other elements of this include a patient care conference early in the hospitalization in which the physician, primary nurse, patient and family discuss the plan of care and goals for the hospital stay. The house staff is encouraged to participate in the patient care conference and become an integral part of this focused care model.

This page is maintained by Haq Nawaz, MD, MPH. Suggestions or comments, please contact: haqnawaz@pol.net.