The University at Buffalo
The Internal Medicine Residency Program
State-of-the-Art Facilities
Buffalo General Hospital (BGH) is a 711-bed, private, not-for-profit, tertiary-care referral center, and serves as Western New York's primary transplant center (heart, lung, and kidney). BGH is only ten minutes from the Canadian border, which, when couple
d with the ethnic diversity of Buffalo, ensures an international presence in its patient mix. Its downtown location also supplies the outpatient department with a large, urban patient population afflicted with a wide variety of both common and unusual med
ical problems. BGH boasts a high-caliber University faculty, and well-respected research programs in pulmonary diseases, cardiology, allergy/immunology, gastroenterology, and general medicine. Founded in 1855, BGH served as a U.S. Army hospital during the
Civil War. The hospital has a history of progressive modernization and now encompasses ten buildings, the largest and newest of which was built in 1985 to house the critical care units, surgical suites, and most patient care services.
Erie County Medical Center (ECMC), a 600-bed, county-run facility, is the regional trauma center.
Critically-injured accident victims, burn victims, drug overdose cases, and gunshot and stabbing victims are usually brought to this hospital,
often via Mercy Flight, Western New York's air ambulance service. Built in 1978, ECMC also houses the AIDS Center of Western New York. There is a strong subspecialty presence in infectious diseases, gastroenterology, renal,
pulmonary diseases, and general medicine. ECMC is a multiple-building complex occupying
seventy acres on Buffalo's East Side; it provides many social and educational services to the residents of Erie County.
Buffalo Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), located across the street from the
State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School, is a 583-bed, federally funded
facility that serves as a referral center for several other VA Medical Centers in the
region. Residents rotating here follow patients throughout the course of their illness,
including any time patients might spend in a critical care unit. The patient population
is made up primarily of males with cardiac, respiratory, and oncologic diseases. The VAMC
maintains a top-notch cardiology, infectious diseases, renal, gastroenterology, hematology,
and oncology faculty. Many laboratory programs, including research in the areas of
nephrology, geriatrics, infectious diseases, endocrinology, gastroenterology,
and pulmonary diseases are housed in a research building adjacent to the hospital,
which was opened in 1990. In 1991, a $6.5 million PET scanner and Cyclotron were added
to the VAMC.
Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital is a 400 bed, tertiary care facility located in pleasanr surroundings in North Buffalo.
This facility is particularly noteworthy for its state-of-the-art imaging center with CT, MRI and PET scanning systems. All
medical subspecialities are represented, and the faculty of the departments include varying proportions of full time, part time and voluntary positions.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) is the oldest multidisciplinary cancer institute in
the world. This 218-bed, state-run hospital has assembled a talented, energetic faculty
from around the country. Patients often have disease that has not responded to conventional
cancer therapy, and are treated at RPCI with experimental and/or protocol therapy.
RPCI comprises an eight city-block, eleven-building campus adjacent to Buffalo General Hospital. A $50 million renovation and expansion project was used to update the
Institute's hospital and research facilities.
The collective experience provided at these five hospitals equals or exceeds that of any major
metropolitan hospital program. New facilities, millions of dollars in research grants,
and an international border ensure a quality education with the best possible patient mix.
All five hospitals are just a few minutes' ride from one another; BGH and RPCI are within a short walk. The suburbs are a mere fifteen-minute drive from downtown, minimizing your daily commute to work. In short, by choosing the State University of New
York at Buffalo's Program A, you're choosing the best possible educational experience while avoiding the hassles and expense of living in a major metropolitan area.
Varied Ambulatory Sites
Recent changes in the requirements of the American Board of Internal Medicine make it
absolutely essential that any training in internal medicine contain significant experience
in ambulatory care. Once again, the unique nature of the State University of New York at
Buffalo Medical-Dental consortium allows us to offer you a wide variety of sites for
ambulatory and primary care experiences.
Hospital-based continuity clinics operate out of Buffalo General Hospital, Erie County
Medical Center, and Millard Fillmore Hospital. Roswell Park Cancer Institute's ambulatory
clinics specialize in the care and treatment of patients with a wide range of oncological
disorders. Ambulatory experiences are available at the VAMC; coimmunity locations in the
city and suburbs provide a nice mix of patient pathology and ambulatory experiences.
