Internal Medicine Residency
Leadership
Overview and Welcome Note from the Program Director
Claudia Nader, MD, Program Director, BMC Brighton Internal Medicine Residency Program
Welcome to the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Boston Medical Center – Brighton. We are located in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston and are close to all of the benefits this world-class city has to offer. We have a long and proud tradition of graduate medical education dating back to 1952 and pride ourselves on the strength of our clinical training and the success of our graduates. Our goal is to provide our physicians-in-training with the exposure to a wide range of pathology while learning from an outstanding faculty in an atmosphere of team-based approach, collegiality, and mutual respect. We feel this combination makes BMC Brighton a unique and wonderful place to train and work.
BMC Brighton has become a major teaching affiliate of Boston University’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and has continued teaching affiliation with Tufts University School of Medicine, allowing our residents to be actively involved in the teaching of medical students who rotate at the hospital.
Our inpatient rotations provide coverage in a geographic model to help improve interdisciplinary teamwork. We offer a “4+2” block schedule model to avoid conflict between the residents’ continuity clinic and their inpatient responsibilities. This model enhances the ability of the program to allow residents to feel more comfortable practicing in an outpatient setting. Residents build up clinical skills by providing continuity of care at hospital-based and community-based primary care practices. They also strengthen their clinical experience pertaining to the outpatient aspect of each Internal Medicine subspecialty.
In addition to providing an educational experience that will prepare our residents for a career in primary care and hospital medicine, we have a strong record of matching our residents to outstanding subspecialty fellowships. We provide an academic environment that promotes scholarly activities and a mentoring and advocacy program that scaffolds our residents to become highly successful in their subspecialty of choice.
We provide a well-structured quality improvement curriculum that allows our trainees to become increasingly conversant in quality improvement projects, promote patient safety, and enhance quality of care. We have a robust academic enrichment program that focuses on self-directed learning based on individual need for enrichment in internal medicine and the subspecialties.
We strongly attend to the physical and psychological wellbeing of our residents and have a health and wellness program that promotes resiliency and work–life balance.
At the completion of their training, our residents find multiple and very exciting job opportunities not only at BMC Brighton, but also in Massachusetts and other states.
We hope that this information will provide you with an overview of our residency program and our commitment to medical education and excellence. If you need any further information, please contact Program Coordinator Susan Lacroix at susan.lacroix@bmc.org.
Sincerely,
Claudia Nader, MD
Program Director
Program Leadership
The BMC Brighton Internal Medicine Residency is led by experienced clinicians and educators who are deeply invested in resident mentorship, education, and professional growth.
Bertrand Jaber, MD, Chair, BMC Brighton Department of Medicine
Bertrand L. Jaber, MD, MS
Chair, Department of Medicine
Dr. Jaber is the Chair of Medicine and a board-certified internist and nephrologist. He serves as Chair of the Clinical Competency Committee and Core Faculty for the Internal Medicine Residency Program.
Dr. Jaber received his medical degree from St. Joseph University Faculty of Medicine in Beirut, Lebanon, and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Carney Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, followed by a clinical and research fellowship in nephrology at Tufts–New England Medical Center, also in Boston. He also holds a Master of Science in Clinical Research from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University.
Dr. Jaber has had a longstanding commitment to medical education. Over the years, he has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards and citations from medical students and residents, including the St. Luke’s Award in recognition of his dedication and excellence to the education of residents. Dr. Jaber is a member of the Intern Selection Committee and participates extensively in lecture instructions and in hospital- and clinic-based teaching of residents. He also directs the Quality Improvement Curriculum of the residency program.
Dr. Jaber’s research interests and original accomplishments have covered several important areas within the field of nephrology, including biocompatibility of dialyzers, leukocyte dysfunction in uremia, novel dialysis therapies, and the utility of biomarkers in acute kidney injury. He has also made contributions to the field of evidence-based medicine through the conduct of meta-analyses on the prevention and treatment of kidney diseases. He has mentored and supervised scores of trainees through the conduct of quality improvement initiatives and research projects.
Since 2015, Dr. Jaber has been featured annually in the Top Doctors list of Boston Magazine. Dr. Jaber is a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.
