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ACOI American College of Osteopathic Internists
Spotlight on Training - Pennsylvania


Abington Memorial Hospital
1200 Old York Road
Abington, PA 19001
(215) 481-2084
www.amh.org/education/resint.htm
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
John Rigotti, DO
jrigotti@amh.org


Crozer-Chester Medical Center
One Medical Center Blvd
Chester, PA 19013
(610) 447-2000
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Debra Buckler, DO
dabuckler@freemanhealth.com


Frankford Hospital
Bucks County Campus
380 Oxford Valley Road
Langhorne, PA 19047
(215) 949-5000
http://www.frankfordhospitals.org/...
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Andrew C. Friedman, DO
afriedman@fhcs.org

SUBSPECIALTY PROGRAMS:
Cardiology Program Director
Joel Miller, DO
jpmillerdo@comcast.net

Combined Internal Medicine/Emergency Medicine Program Co-Directors
Andrew Friedman, DO
afriedman@fhcs.org
Anthony Mangiaracina, DO
(email link not currently available)

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Geisinger Medical Center
100 North Academy Avenue
Danville, PA 17822
(570) 271-6440
http://www.geisinger.org/education...
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
John Bulger, DO
jbulger@geisinger.edu

SUBSPECIALTY PROGRAM:
Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Program Director
John Bulger, DO
jbulger@geisinger.edu

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Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical Center
1500 Highlands Drive
Lititz, PA 17543
(717) 625-5646
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Dale Lent, DO
coemza@comcast.net

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Lankenau Hospital
100 Lancaster Avenue
Wynnewood, PA 19096
(610) 645-3305
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Daniel Lazowick, DO
lazowickd@mlhs.org


Memorial Hospital
325 S. Belmont Street
York, PA 17403
(717) 843-8623
http://www.mhyork.org/education...
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Mark A. Illfelder, DO
imc1777@comcast.net

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Mercy Catholic Medical Center
1500 Landsdowne Avenue
Darby, PA 19023
(610) 278-2000
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Peter Correnti, Jr, DO
petekate@comcast.net


Mercy Suburban Hospital
2701 DeKalb Pike
Norristown, PA 19401
(610) 278-2000
http://www.mercyhealth.org...
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Joseph V. Koehler, DO
endojoe@aol.com

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Millcreek Community Hospital
5515 Peach Street
Erie, PA 16509
(814) 864-4031
http://www.lecom.edu/millcreek...
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
John Ferretti, DO
jferretti@mch1.org

SUBSPECIALTY PROGRAMS:
Gastroenterology Program Director:
Vincent S. Fierro, DO
vsf@velocity.net

Rotations through major tertiary care and specialty hospitals enhance the Internal Medicine program at MCH. Residents receive experience in functioning as consultants to other specialists dealing with the critically ill patient, as well as nonsurgical disorders of adolescents and adults. Interns who choose the specialty track and designate Internal Medicine as the specialty, may count their Internship at MCH toward the three year Internal Medicine residency.

BENEFITS:

Vacation:
Residents receive three weeks of paid vacation each year.

Education Allowance:
Incoming residents are granted up to $1,000 toward relocating to Erie, PA. There is a wide range of rentals or home options in both urban and rural settings. Hospital subsidized housing is also available at very reasonable prices.

Insurance:
Residents receive malpractice, medical, dental and life insurance at no cost. The malpractice insurance provides coverage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Medical insurance for the resident and his/her family is provided through the hospital. Life insurance is equal to one year's salary.

Meals:
Residents receive all meals while on duty and while on call at no cost.

Library Facilities:
Millcreek Community Hospital has a well equipped library where residents may obtain computerized literature searches and copies of articles at no charge. Through its active interlibrary loan program, the library can obtain most articles ever published.

Other Benefits:
Residents are provided with two lab coats each year at no charge.

For more information: Contact Helen McKenzie, Medical Education Coordinator, at (814) 868-8217 or e-mail at mchmeded@millcreekcommunityhospital.org.

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Pennsylvania Hospital
800 Spruce Street
1 Pine West
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 871-6680
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Alison Leff, DO
allison.leff@uphs.upenn.edu

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Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
4190 City Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19131
(215) 871-6100
http://www.pcom.edu/Graduate_Medical_Education...
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Michael Venditto, DO
michaelv@pcom.edu

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Pinnacle Health at Community
General Osteopathic Hospital
4300 Londonderry Road
Harrisburg, PA 17109
(717) 657-7522
http://www.pinnaclehealth.org...
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM DME,
Osteopathic Training Programs
John E. Dougherty, III, DO
jdougherty@pinnaclehealth.org
Program Director:
Brian D'Eramo, DO
imdbd@comcast.net
Osteopathic Residency Program Coordinator
Natalie Hudson
nhudson@pinnaclehealth.org

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Reading Hospital & Medical Center
Sixth Avenue & Spruce Street
Reading, PA 19611
(610) 988-8000
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Eileen Simak, DO
eileensimak@hotmail.com


St. Luke's Hospital
801 Ostrum Street
Bethlehem, PA 18015
(610) 954-4644
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Donna Miller, DO
millerd@slhn.org

St. Luke's Hospital is a 436 bed full service, acute care community hospital and Level-1 trauma center which serves a population of 1.5 million. The hospital is affiliated with the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania. The hospital's mission, for over 125 years, has been to provide quality, cost-effective care to the patients in our community regardless of their ability to pay. St. Luke's has been recognized as one of the "100 Top Hospitals, one of the "100 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals", one of the "100 Top ICU Hospitals". It has been included in U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Hospitals" for cardiology and heart surgery for three consecutive years. For 50 years, the goal of our Internal Medicine residency has been to train our residents to develop the skills and knowledge base necessary to practice in a primary care setting or to enter subspecialty training with confidence.

This goal is accomplished through:

  • Excellent one-on-one mentoring by a dedicated cadre of approximately 100 volunteer faculty and eight full-time faculty
  • Flexible tailoring of rotations to best suit our resident's long term career goals
  • Caring for a diverse socioeconomic population with a wide spectrum of disease processes.
  • Conducting an extensive didactic program

The facilities at St. Luke's hospital are state-of-the-art. The hospital completed a 40 million-dollar building project, which included a new nine-story patient care tower with 231 private rooms, a medical library and a free standing education center. The 36,000 square foot Pricilla Payne Hurd Education Center houses two fully equipped auditoriums and eleven classrooms. The majority of the didactic resident and medical student education is held in this center, adjacent to the new Pricilla Payne Hurd Pavilion. The medical library, which is 8,000 square feet, is home to a 21-station computer laboratory; research and small group study rooms as well as a comprehensive collection of medical texts and journals. The radiology department, a GE test site, regularly performs diagnostic and interventional procedures with some of the most advanced equipment in the world, including PET scanners and a powerful open MRI scanners. As a member of the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Network, St. Luke s has direct access to the latest advances and world-renowned expertise of Penn cancer specialists. The University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center is one of a select group of cancer centers in the nation designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute. That link provides great resources for second opinions and consultations to ensure that the cancer care provided by St. Luke s is the best available. The new high-powered linear accelerator at the Cancer Center - one of only 24 in the country - provides high doses of precisely delivered external beam radiation therapy, sparing the surrounding tissue and reducing scarring and side effects.

St. Luke's Hospital recently became the first hospital in Pennsylvania to perform surgical procedures using the da Vinci Surgical System, the health care industry's most advanced minimally invasive, robotically assisted surgical system to perform procedures with smaller incisions, less pain and faster recovery times.

Our Internal Medicine residency is fully accredited by the Council on Post-Doctoral Training of the American Osteopathic Association and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for the training of 24 residents, and 4 traditional osteopathic rotating/transitional positions.

Overall, the institution provides training for a total of over 100 residents in Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, General Surgery, Podiatry, and Family Practice.

Training is centralized at Saint Luke's Hospital. There is an opportunity to do an out-of-house elective as a senior medical resident. A minimum of one-third of the training is in the ambulatory setting including a continuity clinic and office practice experiences in the community.

Graduates of Osteopathic medical schools enter our training program in the Internal Medicine Internship track followed by two years of additional internal medicine training. Upon successful completion of our program, our osteopathic residents are eligible to sit for the American Osteopathic Internal Medicine Board examination as well as the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) certifying examination. Our 3-year rolling average pass rate on the Internal Medicine Board certification exam is 100%.

Upon graduation, our residents have joined local and distant primary care practices, entered practice as hospitalists and enrolled in competitive fellowships. The vast majority of residents who have sought fellowships have received positions at institutions such as Brown University, Henry Ford, Massachusetts General, University of California at San Francisco, University of Pennsylvania and Wake Forest.

Additional information on the St. Luke's Internal Medicine training programs can be found on our website, http://www.slhn-lehighvalley.org/

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UPMC-Horizon Shenango Campus
2200 Memorial Drive Extended
Farrell, PA 16121
(724) 981-3500
http://horizon.upmc.com/career.htm
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Co-Directors:
Frederick G. Uberti, DO
fuberti@aol.com
Roy Sartori, DO
rjsartori@neo.rr.com

UPMC Horizon is a two-campus, 364-licensed bed, acute care facility located in Greenville and Farrell, PA. The Farrell campus serves as the primary teaching facility for the internal medicine residency. Services offered include surgery, cardiac catheterization, ER, full services radiology including PET, MRI, Lithotripsy and CAT scan, acute care, skilled nursing, obstetrics and LDRP, sleep disorders, pain management, occupational medicine and women-care services in our state-of-the-art UPMC Horizon Woman Care Center located in Hermitage, PA.

UPMC Horizon has sponsored an AOA-approved internal medicine residency since 1977. The internal medicine residency is approved for 2 positions/year and is under the director of Jerome Bonier, D.O., Director of Medical Education and Roy Sartori, D.O., FACOI, acting Internal Medicine Program Director.

Our current faculty consists of seven general internal medicine physicians who are actively involved in the program on a daily basis. Four of these physicians are currently Fellows of the American College of Osteopathic Internists. One of the faculty is past president of the American Heart Association in Pennsylvania.

There is a total of 18 general internists that are currently on our staff and there is well over 150 physicians in the total UPMC Horizon system. Our past record of passing the ACOI Board Certifying Examination is approximately 93 percent.

UPMC Horizon's medical staff represents most specialties including anesthesiology, allergy and immunology, dermatology, emergency medicine, endocrinology, family practice, internal medicine, cardiology, infectious disease, gastroenterology, nephrology, neurology, pathology, physical medicine, obstetrics, oncology, psychiatry, orthopedics, general , thoracic and vascular surgery, pulmonology, rheumatology and radiology.

The internal medicine resident will have the opportunity to learn in the hospital environment, internal medicine offices and also in community clinic setting. The resident will participate in numerous educational opportunities including morning report, video-conference grand rounds, journal club, board reviews, teaching rounds and have access to online world-class library.

At UPMC Horizon we take pride in the fact that our doctor-patient relationships have been built on one unwavering principle: We treat our patients with care, compassion, and respect. This commitment provides the resident with an exceptional opportunity to become involved in patient care on a one-to-one basis.

For more information, please contact the Department of Medical Education at (724) 983-7507 or email denoiks@msx.upmc.edu or visit our website at www.upmc.com.

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