Residency Program Overview | Hannibal Regional

Our new program in Internal Medicine will set you up for success with coaching and mentoring throughout your time in Graduate Medical Education as you continue to grow in your resident physician roles and responsibilities in:

Patient care
Medical education
Scholarship and Research and Continuous Quality Improvement Activities
Leadership roles as a physician including engaging in educational sessions, serving on committees while working in groups and sharing your scholarship work at local, regional, national meetings

We will equip physicians as leaders for their multifaceted futures in the delivery of excellent healthcare to our patients, families, and communities in the region.

Our community-based program will give you tremendous opportunities in:

Delivering excellent healthcare to individual patients and populations from the community and region.
Understanding chronic disease management and population health.
Working in value-based care models oriented toward achieving healthcare outcomes for patients and populations of patients.
Using state-of-the-art technology.
Benefiting from excellent office-based teaching from skilled staff and physicians.
Engaging in diverse hospital inpatient medicine and subspecialty inpatient experiences with attending physicians and their teams.
Growing as a leader with your new resident physician colleagues following your medical school experiences.
Presenting your work frequently with your colleagues at local, regional, and national meetings while preparing for employment following graduate medical education and/or applying for any of the many different competitive fellowships in Internal Medicine.

During this exciting adventure, you will experience tremendous growth as a resident physician while we foster your continuous learning and career professional development in the new program!

Our conference and seminar sessions will be set up to enhance your facilitation and small group learning skills as you interact with medical students, healthcare staff and team members, attending physician faculty and your peer colleagues. We seek to guide and mentor you in your individual preparations to successfully pass the American Board of Internal Medicine Initial Certification Examination that follows the successful completion of an Internal Medicine Residency Program in Graduate Medical Education. Multifaceted educational settings and techniques that foster optimal learning and teaching will be utilized! Noontime sessions will be sure to advance and accelerate your learning and professional development in internal medicine, healthcare, and medical education.

Faculty & Staff

Chad Brands, MD, CPE, SFHM

Program Director

Chad Brands, MD, CPE, SFHM
Program Director

Dr. Brands attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine and completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine – Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

He became a pioneering hospitalist who has contributed in multifaceted ways to the development of the specialty of Hospital Medicine during his career as a physician leader and program builder. He has been recognized as a Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine by the Society for Hospital Medicine for his contributions to the field of hospital medicine, including patient care, medical education, scholarship, and administrative leadership.

Dr. Brands is a certified physician executive, and was tapped to serve on the Inaugural Editorial Board for the Physician Leadership Journal with the American College of Physician Executives. He has helped launch several new medical schools as well as multiple new enterprises in Graduate Medical Education, overseeing the development and growth of residency and fellowship programs in many different specialties of medicine and surgery.

Dr. Brands leads the new Internal Medicine Residency program and will be working with colleagues at Hannibal Regional Medical Group to build and develop the office-based clinical – educational setting of the new graduate medical education program for incoming resident physicians, interprofessional healthcare teams, medical students, and patients and their families. This team-based care model and the new Internal Medicine Program will equip physicians to provide excellent healthcare to patients while equipping physicians to be leaders in graduate medical education and beyond.

His scholarship and leadership efforts have been dedicated to building new clinical and educational programs in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education while mentoring many students, residents, and fellows in presenting their collaborative work with colleagues at regional, national, and international meetings and publishing their outcomes in the peer-reviewed literature. Outside medicine he enjoys outdoor activities including hiking and photography, as well as music and time with his family.

When asked what he finds rewarding about the calling of medicine, Dr. Brands shares, "Guiding, coaching, and mentoring the next generation of physicians. Hannibal Regional is beginning a new Internal Medicine Program and medical student graduates will be joining our program and health system while contributing as resident physicians to patient care, education, and scholarship as well as the healthcare outcomes in the community and region for years to come!"