Residency Program
Program Design / Typical Schedule
Categorical requirements over 3 years
Each of the following is listed as number of modules. Each
module is 4 weeks long. Therefore, there are 13 modules each year.
- 13.5 Floors
- 3 Medical Intensive Care Units (MICU)
- 2 Coronary Care Units (CCU)
- 4 Ambulatory rotations
- 1 Community Academic Practice
- 1 Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI)
- 1 Geriatrics
- 1 Emergency Room
- 1 Gynecology
- 9 Electives (Maximum of 3 as Research)
- 2.5 Vacation modules
Sample Typical Schedule
|
PGY year
|
Assignment
|
Module(s)
|
Note
|
|
1
|
ECMC Floor
|
2
|
|
|
Renal Floor
|
1
|
|
|
BGH Floor
|
2
|
|
|
VA Floor
|
2
|
|
|
CCU
|
1
|
|
|
MICU
|
1
|
|
|
RPCI
|
1
|
|
|
Elective
|
2.25
|
|
|
Vacation
|
0.75
|
|
|
2
|
ECMC Floor
|
1
|
|
|
BGH Floor
|
1
|
|
|
VA Floor
|
1
|
|
|
MICU
|
2
|
BGH–1, ECMC-1
|
|
ER
|
1
|
|
|
Geriatrics
|
1
|
|
|
Ambulatory
|
2
|
Home-1, Other–1
|
|
Elective
|
3.25
|
|
|
Vacation
|
0.75
|
|
|
3
|
VA Floor
|
1
|
|
|
VA NF
|
0.5
|
|
|
Elective*
|
0.5
|
Not a regular elective
|
|
BGH DF
|
0.5
|
|
|
BGH NF
|
0.5
|
|
|
ECMC DF
|
0.5
|
|
|
ECMC NF
|
0.5
|
|
|
Ambulatory
|
3
|
Home-1, CAP-1, Other-1
|
|
GYN
|
1
|
|
|
CCU
|
1
|
|
|
Elective
|
3
|
|
|
Vacation
|
1
|
|
- Ambulatory Blocks (Home indicates resident’s weekly clinic site,
other indicates a different ambulatory site)
- CAP – Community Academic Practice ( Clarence-Sheridan Medical
Center & Medicor Associates of Chautauqua)
- VA – Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- BGH – Buffalo General Hospital
- ECMC – Erie County Medical Center
- NF – Night Float
- DF – Day Float
- ER – Emergency Room
- GYN – Gynecology
*** There may be slight differences for individual schedules from the above
listed schedule over the three years, but all residents will have completed
their individual requirements by the end of their residency training.