- NYCOM-Nassau University Medical Center
- NYCOM-Sisters of Charity
- Samaritan Medical Center
- NYCOM-St. Barnabas Hospital
- Wilson Memorial Medical Center
NYCOM
Nassau University Medical Center
2201 Hempstead Turnpike
East Meadow, NY 11556
(516) 572-8836
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Kenneth Steier, DO
ksteier@ncmc.edu
Nassau University Medical Center is the largest public teaching hospital on Long Island, New York, with approximately 650 inpatient beds. It is a Level One Trauma Center, with a Burn Unit, Hyperbaric oxygen chamber, and an officially-designated HIV specialty unit. There are approximately 350 housestaff, with medicine fellowships in endocrinology, nephrology, pulmonary/critical care, allergy/immunology, hematology/oncology, infectious disease, rheumatology, and several other specialties. The pulmonary/critical care fellowship is co-sponsored with Long Island Jewish/North Shore Medical Center. The rhematology fellowship is co-sponsored with Winthrop University Hospital. The emergency room has approximately 81,000 visits per year and serves as the medical "safety-net" for Long Island's underserved population.
NUMC is a member of NYCOMEC in affiliation with NYCOM and many other New York area teaching hospitals. There is a 20+ year history of training osteopathic medical students at NUMC and remaining for their graduate medical education years. There are generally 15-20 DO students and 6-8 Stony Brook medical students on Medicine rotations at any given time.
The internal medicine residency is "dual-approved" by both the ACOI and ACGME for 3 years of training, meaning that DOs that complete the program can sit for both the DO and MD internal medicine board exams. For DOs, the first year is structured as a fast-track medicine internship, meeting the requirements both for an AOA-approved internship year, and the first year of internal medicine. The residency is fully-integrated, meaning that DOs and MDs have the same patient care responsibilities and clinical learning opportunities. DOs also have the opportunity to develop their OMT skills both on site and at NYCOM.
Ken Steier, DO, is the program director for the osteopathic internal medicine residency program and also an Associate Program Director in the ACGME program. Dr. Steier also serves as the Director of Medical Education at NUMC and is a full-time attending physician in the Department of Medicine. He is a recent "Teacher of the Year" as selected by both housestaff and medical students.
There are many residency and fellowship options for DOs at NUMC, including physical medicine and rehabilitation, anesthesia, radiology. There are a total of 36 DOs currently in residency or fellowship at NUMC, including fellows in gastrointestinal disease, pulmonary/critical care, allergy/immunology and rheumatology.
Didactic instruction includes daily morning report, daily noon conference, and weekly Medicine Grand Rounds. Individual departments have regularly scheduled lectures and conferences as well.
In conclusion, NUMC is a high-volume academic medical center with a wide variety of cases and levels of severity. There is a tremendous opportunity to learn internal medicine, and become competent in all relevant procedures. As a New York hospital, resident work hours are limited by the Bell Commission rules, which are strictly enforced. The pass rate on the ABIM certification exam has been above 90% for many years. Graduates of the NUMC internal medicine residency successfully compete for fellowship positions at prestigious hospitals such as the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and the Massachusetts General Hospital. For more information, contact Ken Steier, DO at ksteier@numc.edu.
NYCOM
Sisters of Charity Hospital
2157 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14214
(716) 862-1903
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Gordon Tussing, DO
drtussing@adelphia.net
Samaritan Medical Center
830 Washington Street
Watertown, NY 13601
(315) 779-5244
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
David Rechlin, DO
drechlin@shsny.com
Located in the city of Watertown, NY, Samaritan Medical Center has been proudly serving the diverse healthcare needs of its local communities since 1881. Samaritan Health System includes a 272-bed long-term care facility and several family health clinics, and Samaritan Medical Center (a 287-bed acute care facility) which serves as a Regional Referral Center for Northern New York.
The medical center provides a full array of medical, surgical and emergency care, including medical/surgical beds, critical care services, pediatrics, maternity, behavioral health, and a state-of-the-art emergency department.
Samaritan Medical Center also offers a variety of specialized services typically associated only with larger urban healthcare centers. Specialty services available locally include comprehensive cancer treatment, imaging services, physical medicine and rehabilitation, high risk maternity and level II neonatal intensive care, neurosurgery, cardiac rehabilitation, trauma care, cardiac and pulmonary care, diagnostic cardiac catheterization and ambulatory surgery.
Due to record population growth in the area, Samaritan Medical Center is currently undergoing a $61 million expansion and renovation project. Jefferson County is the fastest growing county in New York State.
While all Internal Medicine residencies must meet Board requirements, there are some distinct differences in Samaritan's program that enable us to stand apart from others. They are:
- A rural location that encompasses a population base of approximately 110,000 culturally-diverse patients
- Great flexibility in rotations
- A prestigious US Army installation nearby (Fort Drum/10th Mountain Division), with military physicians on Samaritan’s staff to provide training to include a wide array of pathology, reflecting world-wide exposure
- Electronic Medical Records system in place
- Daily lectures and conferences help you further understand the management of common problems
Samaritan Medical Center is dedicated to producing competent, maximally skilled Osteopathic primary care Internists in three years. Residents will receive comprehensive training and will be well-balanced in a wide variety of clinical settings to meet the needs of the communities they will serve across the country. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.samaritanhealth.com/ and contact us with further questions.
NYCOM
St. Barnabas Hospital
183rd Street and Third Avenue
Bronx, NY 10457
(718) 960-6517
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Eric Appelbaum, DO
appledoc23@yahoo.com
SUBSPECIALTY PROGRAM:
Combined Internal Medicine/Emergency Medicine Program Director:
Eric Appelbaum, DO
appledoc23@yahoo.com
St. Barnabas Hospital Affiliated with:
- New York College of Osteopathic Medicine of New York Institute of Technology
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University
- New York Presbyterian Hospital and New York Presbyterian Healthcare Network
The New York College of Osteopathic Medicine- St Barnabas Hospital internal medicine residency program hospital is designed to give the resident a complete experience in all facets of internal medicine- both inpatient and outpatient. St. Barnabas is a busy urban hospital and Level 1 trauma center in the heart of the Bronx, New York. The hospital houses 462 beds with a virtual 100% occupancy rate. In the year 2001 - 2002, there were 91,000 emergency department visits, 26,645 hospital admissions and 247,815 clinic visits. An on-campus extended care facility houses an additional 200 nursing home beds-including a ventilator floor. All major specialties are represented, and the hospital hosts the only hospital based OMM residency program in the profession. Currently St. Barnabas is undergoing its fifth major expansion in 20 years, with a diagnostic cardiac catheterization lab about to open. The pathology at St. Barnabas is diverse and the level of acuity high. In addition to the busy in-patient experience, the ambulatory clinics provide the resident with the opportunity to develop a broad panel of patients to follow throughout the training experience. The teaching faculty is committed to training residents, and the didactic program draws from the incomparable expertise of the New York City medical community. Internal medicine residency programs include a dual accredited (AOA and ACGME approved) three-year program (which includes the track internship), and an AOA approved five- year combined internal medicine/emergency medicine residency. Graduates of the internal medicine residency program have a high acceptance rate at many prestigious fellowship programs both locally and nationally.
For students interested in big city internal medicine with all its training advantages, come take a bite out of the Big Apple.
Wilson Memorial Regional Medical Center
33-57 Harrison Street
Johnson City, NY 13790
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Roger Scott, DO
rescott3@pol.net
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