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The Universal Primary Care Center, located on the Olean General Hospital campus, is part of a newly constructed $2.5 million medical facility. With a strong sense of camaraderie, you will work side by side with your faculty of four board-certified family practitioners, 1 certified IM/Pediatrics practitioner, 2 CNM and 3 PA. As you develop both personally and professionally. We never lose sight of the fact that you are a unique person developing into a family practitioner, and we tailor our program to capitalize on your strengths and support your weaknesses. You will hone your skills further by actively teaching other residents and medical students from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. And with 400 deliveries a year in our practice, your competency to practice obstetrics is assured. After spending the first year at the Deaconess training site, you will then relocate to Olean, a community of 20,000 located approximately ninety miles south of Buffalo. The family medicine center has over 7,000 square feet of space, including fourteen examination and treatment rooms, a NST machine and room, a conference room, physician offices and library/instructional area. A newly installed state of the art telecommunications networks links the Rural Campus with Buffalo’s medical school, hospitals and residency program for video conferences, medical imaging transmission and instant consultation. Patients are admitted to Olean General Hospital, a 186 bed institution. Our rapidly growing program, with centers of care in Olean, Cuba, and Houghton is a truly dynamic place to practice, grow, and learn. Join us as we provide comprehensive health care to the people of the rural Southern Tier, and you will leave us not only a fine physician, but also a better person.
Unique Features: Rural track, extensive training in women’s health-care issues, including obstetrics, residents assist at surgery Faculty: 4 board-certified
family physicians (2 of which have completed OB Inpatients: 1,500 patients per year, average OLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL Olean General Hospital, a 186-bed rural regional referral center ninety miles south of Buffalo, has been the leader in health care in Western New York’s Southern Tier for nearly a century. Olean General, along with Buffalo General Hospital, is one of only two health-care facilities in the entire Buffalo and Western New York area to achieve the coveted JCAHO accreditation with commendation for excellence in medical care. Our well-trained, specialty board-certified community preceptors love to teach – with you as the center of their attention. With a medical staff of more than 100 top-notch rural physicians, Olean General provides a truly comprehensive range of medical services and features newly constructed, state-of-the-art ICU and obstetrical units, as well as the very latest in laboratory/diagnostic services, including MRI, CT scanning, transcranial Doppler, and nuclear medicine. Privileges granted to your faculty by Olean General include C-sections, ICU, and neonatal resuscitation, to mention only a few. You will be part of the only residency program in a supportive, truly family practice-friendly hospital that features your faculty in the ultimate leadership roles of medical director and president of the medical staff, ensuring the success of family practice in the community for years to come. The Buffalo General/Olean General coalition affords you an extensive exposure to the full spectrum of medical problems in the first year; then you fine-tune these skills in the second and third years to become a truly successful family practitioner of the twenty-first century, with the qualifications and experience to practice anywhere in the nation.
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