SUNY AT BUFFALO INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM A

UB INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Some Quick Facts at a Glance

Each year, the residency program offers approximately:

30 Categorical Positions - Match Number 309916

4 Medicine-Pediatrics Positions - Match Number 309930

1 Women's Health Care Track Positions - Match Number 309978

1 Medicine-Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Track Position - Match Number 309975

1 Medicine-Preventive Medicine Track Position - Match Number 309986

SUNY at Buffalo's Department of Medicine has approximately 160 full time faculty committed to teaching, augmented by approximately 420 volunteer and part-time faculty members who are dedicated to provide a current comprehensive curriculum.

The Department of Medicine faculty have 7.5 million dollars in research support, with NIH sponsored research projects presently underway in the Divisions of Allergy, Pulmonary, Gastroenterology, Cardiology, Infectious Diseases, Oncology, and Clinical Pharmacology.

The program not only has multiple ACGME approved medicine residency programs, but also ACGME approved fellowship programs in allergy/immunology, cardiology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, geriatrics, hematology, oncology, infectious diseases, nephrolo gy, rheumatology, and pulmonary/critical care.

The program has a complete night float system, and adheres to NY State 405 Regulations that: a.) limits the hours a resident may work in a week to 80; b.) limits each work day to no longer than 24 hours; c.) requires a minimum of eight hours off between shifts; and d.) provides for a minimum of one 24-hour period off each week.

Residents get a faculty appointment to the State University at Buffalo, affording them the opportunity to use the University's world-class research library (with free computer searches) and to surf the Internet via the University's computer system. For a small annual fee, faculty may also use the University's Athletic Center, with fitness/weight equipment, exercise classes, and tennis, racquetball, squash, and basketball courts readily available.

HUBNET (Hospitals and University at Buffalo Library Network) allows UB faculty and students to access OVID, Medline, and other reference data bases (plus e-mail) through their personal computer modems at home.

Subtracks (e.g.: Med-Peds, Womens, Med-Rehab, Med-Preventive Med) are fully integrated with the Categorical Program on all rotations, from wards, to units, to electives.

There is true interaction with residents from other programs (e.g., family medicine, emergency medicine, neurology, psychiatry); they are frequently assigned to ward and unit rotations with medicine residents. This often adds a different perspective, enhancing the residents' knowledge as they share what they've learned through previous patient experiences.

Over the three years, residents spend most of their time evenly divided among a federal hospital, a private hospital, and a municipal hospital. Each one has a different pathology mix, demographics, and organizational feel. After graduation, our residents are confident in their career choices (e.g., academic, private practice or HMO, primary care or subspecialty fellowship), in part thanks to the extensive pathology that they've experienced, and to the multi-hospital system (which helps them to know first hand the different health-care environments that exist today).

All the hospitals have solid ancillary services (e.g., IV teams, routine draws, transport, etc.).

Third and fourth-year medical students regularly augment the house staff teams, along with students from the University's PharmD program, nurse practitioner program, and PA's from D'Youville College.

Graduates from our program have placed well in competitive fellowship programs, with multiple graduates the past four years obtaining fellowships at Johns Hopkins University, Sloan-Kettering, Duke, Massachusetts General, Cleveland Clinic, Rush Presbyterian, Vanderbilt, Yale, Harvard, and the National Institutes of Health, among others.
Visit www.imed.buffalo.edu for a glimpse at this module's schedule and current events.

Last Updated 08/11/01