Each
year, the residency program offers approximately: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.
