AIM Center History
The Emory Academic Internal Medicine Center is an expansion of the Paul W. Seavey Comprehensive Internal Medicine Clinic. The O. Wayne Rollins Foundation was integral in launching the Seavey Clinic in 2013. In 2023, the foundation made a gift that expanded the clinic — and its emphasis on academic internal medicine — to the internal medicine clinical sites at Emory University Hospital Midtown and 1365 Clifton Road. The multisite expansion is known collectively as the Emory Academic Internal Medicine Center.
AIM Center Mission and Goals
Mission
The mission of the Academic Internal Medicine Center is to apply innovation, collaboration, and infrastructure resources to enhance the Emory Division of General Internal Medicine faculty’s career growth, satisfaction, and effectiveness for the benefit of patients, learners, and the Division as a whole.
Goals
The goals of the Emory AIM Center frame a set of benefits that encompass each aspect of the entire Internal Medicine healthcare environment, including its providers, the patients served by those providers, and the education and training of learners, such as medical students and residents, and enhancement of excellence in care through innovation informed by research. Specific goals are to:
- Enhance career development, job satisfaction, and AIM Center and Division of General Internal Medicine faculty retention.
- Continually improve patient care quality, as well as both patient and provider experience through novel innovation of processes and new technologies
- Integrate AIM Center and Division faculty and learners through shared conferences, quality improvement initiatives, research projects, and smaller “Engagement Groups” focusing on topics of shared interest and relevance.
- Enhance the quality of interprofessional teaching and training for learners, including medical students, residents, and trainees in other professional categories, such as nurse practitioner and physician assistant students, pharmacy residents, and others.
- Enhance and elevate the reputation, quality, and impact of the Division of General Internal Medicine through enhanced support and coordination of research, education, collaboration, and shared infrastructure.
- Promote and reinforce positive modeling of General Internal Medicine as a viable and fulfilling career to help increase the number of primary care providers in the state and region.