Patient Care

Yale physicians are experts in more than 100 specialties and subspecialties, including geriatric medicine. The Yale Medical Group, with more than 800 doctors, is one of the largest multispecialty group practices in the United States.

More than 800 Yale physicians provide primary and specialty care for patients under the auspices of the Yale Medical Group, one of the largest academic multispecialty practices in the nation. Yale doctors provide advanced care in more than 100 specialties and subspecialties, including organ transplantation, minimally invasive surgery and state-of-the-art cancer care. Yale’s historical contributions to medicine include the first X-ray performed in the United States, the first successful use of penicillin in America, the first use of cancer chemotherapy, and the introduction of fetal heart monitoring, natural childbirth and newborn rooming-in. Yale doctors designed the first artificial heart pump and the first insulin infusion pump for diabetes, and it was here that the means of transmission of the polio virus established, paving the way for the Salk vaccine. Lyme disease was identified by two Yale physicians in 1975.

Patient care overview