General Internal and Hospital Medicine

Around 40 per cent of patients admitted to our hospital are seen by these two closely-aligned teams.

Internal medicine physicians are specialists in diagnosing and caring for patients with complex multi-system diseases – both in an acute setting and in ambulatory care clinics. The typical route to becoming an internal medicine specialist is a minimum of four years of residency training after medical school is completed.

Hospitalist medicine physicians are physicians who specialize in hospital medicine. They are typically trained in family medicine with additional training in the care of hospitalized patients. 

Our hospital medicine division is one of the largest fully academic hospital medicine divisions in Canada.  Our hospitalists care for more than 440 patients across Mount Sinai Hospital and Hennick Bridgepoint each day.

Together, these two teams provide day-to-day comprehensive medical care to hospitalized patients, including inpatient acute care, rehabilitation medicine and complex continuing care.

They may also continue to provide care after patients leave the hospital.

We are fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, and our clinicians participate in ground-breaking research to improve patient care, innovate treatments across specialties and help provide world-class training for our learners.