Congratulations!
Congratulations on being selected for interview at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency Program! You have been selected from more than 1600 applicants as a competitive candidate who we think would succeed here. This page contains key specific interview day information, and the remainder of our website provides in depth general information about the program. We are looking forward to seeing you soon!
Interview day schedule
The interview day begins at 9:45 am ET and wraps up around 2:30 pm ET. Your individual interview day schedule will be available to you in Thalamus a couple of days prior. Every applicant meets with either Dr. Atkins (PD Categorical Track) or Dr. Francis (PD Primary Care Track), and has a 30-minute interview with a faculty member. If you applied to both tracks then this one interview day is for both tracks, and we likely rank you for both tracks. Other interview day activities include meeting with our program coordinators, participating in “Discover Dartmouth” which is an interactive information session with our chief residents, and observing a noon conference which might be resident or faculty led. Feel free to turn off your camera, enjoy lunch and relax during the noon hour. A sample interview day schedule is as follows:
- 9:45 am - Opening ceremonies
- 10:30 am - Faculty interview
- 11:15 am - Program Director interview
- 12:15 pm - Noon conference
- 1:20 pm - “Discover Dartmouth”
- 2:10 pm - Closing session
Policies and agreement
All Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center GME policies are publicly available.
The ACGME and NRMP require that each applicant to an accredited residency program be provided with the institutional policies regarding eligibility requirements and selection process, along with a sample copy of the current resident/fellow agreement of appointment in force during interview season.
Please familiarize yourself with each of the documents linked below. Your acknowledgement of access to these policies is a requirement to be eligible for ranking. Please click here to record your acknowledgement.
- Sample Agreement of Appointment (PDF)
- Visa Policy (PDF)
- ECFMG Certification Policy
- Resident and Fellow Benefits
- GME Time Away From Training Policy (PDF)
- Residency and Fellowship Eligibility Requirements (PDF)
- Residency and Fellowship Selection Process (PDF)
Faculty bios
Your faculty interview may be with one of the leadership team or with one of our faculty interviewers (primarily our core faculty).
Biographies in either written or video form for our leadership team are available on our public website. If your faculty interview is with Dr. Josie Fisher, Dr Harley Friedman, Dr. Dave Haughey, Dr. Kelly Kieffer, Dr. James “Darrell” Laudate, Dr. Emily Stewart, or Dr. Julia West then you can view their bios on the program leadership page.
Brief biographies for some our other most frequent interviewers are below:
Alix Ashare, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
Pulmonary Medicine
alix.ashare@hitchcock.org
After completing graduate training at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Ashare completed her Internal Medicine Residency and Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. She joined the faculty at the University of Iowa in 2006 as both an attending physician and funded researcher. In 2009, she moved to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center where she holds a joint appointment in Microbiology & Immunology at the Geisel School of Medicine. Her clinical practice focuses on inflammatory lung diseases and her lab studies how dysfunction in innate immune cells in the lungs leads to chronic lung inflammation.
When she is not working, Dr. Ashare spends time with her husband (also a Pulmonary & Critical Care physician), two teenagers, and three canine children, pursuing the many outdoor activities available in the Upper Valley. She also plays as much tennis as possible and spends a lot of time driving the kids’ hockey carpools.
Amelia Cullinan, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Palliative Care and Hospice Medicine
amelia.m.cullinan@hitchcock.org
Dr. Amelia Cullinan is the Interim Section Chief of Palliative Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and an Associate Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine. She’s been at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center since 2012. She received her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and did an Internal Medicine-Primary Care residency at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York City, where she also completed a year as Chief Resident. She completed her training in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the Harvard Palliative Care fellowship program in 2008.
Dr. Cullinan’s non-clinical passions are education and quality improvement work. She is one of the core faculty for the Internal Medicine Residency, leading the 2nd year FIRE (Formal Instruction of Residents as Educators) rotation. She also co-directs the Serious Illness Care Program at Dartmouth Hitchcock, which has educated over 500 interdisciplinary learners in the Serious Illness Conversation (SIC) Guide, and she was responsible for embedding the Guide into D-H’s electronic medical record.
Courtney Farrell, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
General Internal Medicine
courtney.r.rarrell@hitchcock.org
Courtney Farrell joined the faculty at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in 2010. She currently works as a general internist at Dartmouth Hitchcock’s Heater Road Internal Medicine clinic where she is involved in student and resident medical education. She attended Virginia Commonwealth School of Medicine (Medical College of Virginia) and then completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center (2010). She is involved in teaching all levels of medical learners including clinical experiences for Dartmouth undergraduate students, On Doctoring clinical precepting for 1st and 2nd year medical students, Internal Medicine ambulatory rotations for 4th year medical students, and precepting Internal Medicine Primary Care Track residents. She also participates in resident didactic teaching. She serves as core faculty in the Internal Medicine residency program, team lead for the Heater Rd Internal Medicine team, and medical director for the Dartmouth Health Centralized Anticoagulation clinic. In her free time, she enjoys being a spectator at her kids’ sports events, and looks forward to a good powder day in winter.
Sage Gale, DO
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Hospital Medicine
sage.e.gale@hitchcock.org
Dr. Gale is a Hospitalist physician at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He received his DO from Midwestern University in Downers Grove, IL. He went on to complete his Internal Medicine residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and joined the Section of Hospital Medicine after graduation in 2021. Resident education has been an ongoing interest since residency and during his PGY-3 year he received a DOMACE grant to create a podcast and question bank for resident learners centering on the inpatient care for patients with diabetes. In 2022 he joined the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Internal Medicine Department as core faculty leading the Hospital Medicine Pathway. In 2024 he became the Medical Co-Chair of the Glucose Management Panel. His interests outside of clinical medicine are in resident education, quality improvement work and hospital administration
Arshi Parvez, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Hospital Medicine
arshi.parvez@hitchcock.org
Dr. Parvez grew up in Dubai, UAE before moving to Indore, India to complete her medical school at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences (2016). After medical school she worked at the Arthritis & Autoimmune Diseases Center at Boston University as a research scholar (2019). She then completed her Internal medicine residency at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA in 2022. She joined Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center's Hospital Medicine section as a hospitalist upon her graduation.
Dr. Parvez has had a varied background in education having studied in three different countries. She is interested in the advancement of DEIB in medical training and working with underrepresented groups to further their pursuits in medicine. During her free time, Dr. Parvez loves cooking, traveling and spending time with family.
Kenton Powell, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
General Internal Medicine
kenton.e.powell@hitchcock.org
Dr. Powell earned his MD from Dartmouth School of Medicine in 2007, gaining membership to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society upon graduation. He continued into his residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, rising to the position of chief resident of internal medicine for the 2010–11 academic year. He joined the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center faculty in 2011 based in the Lyme clinic. In 2013, Dr. Powell became director of the primary care track internal medicine residency program and the associate director of the internal medicine residency program, where he finished serving in this role in 2024. He became the medical director of the Lyme clinical site in 2017 and co-director of the advanced ambulatory medicine clerkship in 2019. He is also a preceptor for the On Doctoring program and a faculty member at the Geisel School of Medicine.
As for his leadership roles outside Dartmouth Health, Kent has served on several committees with the New Hampshire chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP), including as chair of the Education Committee. He joined the chapter’s Governor’s Council in 2015 and is serving as the chapter governor and member of the National Board of Governors for the 2022–26 term. He earned an award for Excellent Chapter Service in 2018. Among his many other honors, Dr. Powell earned the Almy Professor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2018–19 and the Murray Korc Award for Faculty Commitment to Resident Education and Well-Being in 2020–21, an award chosen and presented by the residents.
Rebecca Wang, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Infectious Disease and International Health
rebecca.wang@hitchcock.org
Dr. Rebecca Wang is an Infectious Disease physician at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She received her MD from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She went on to complete her Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where her academic focuses centered on transplant infectious Diseases and antimicrobial stewardship. She joined Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in 2021. Her clinical interests are broad but in particular include the care of immunocompromised hosts, including individuals with hematologic malignancies, stem cell transplants, and solid organ transplants. She has training and interest in antimicrobial stewardship as well as quality improvement work, and she currently serves as the Medical Co-Director of the Comprehensive Antimicrobial Program. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, trying out new restaurants, exploring the outdoors, and dog-sitting for her two family miniature poodles.