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The Department supports three UPMC residency sites- (McKeesport, Shadyside, and St Margaret) which are integrated into the Department and have a unified educational structure and recruiting focus. Each has numerous community outreach programs that serve their local communities and provide residents invaluable experience with the interrelationship of health and community. In addition, the Department participates in a combined Family Medicine and Psychiatry Residency Training Program with Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of the University of Pittsburgh.
The Department of Family Medicine also participates in the Consortium of UPMC-affiliated Family Medicine Residency Programs. |
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| The Structure of the Residency Program |
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The University of Pittsburgh Department of Family Medicine has an affiliation with the Family Practice Residencies in the UPMC system, which include UPMC McKeesport, UPMC Shadyside and UPMC St. Margaret. The three programs have a total of 88 family practice residents and 7 fellows in various endeavors. Faculty from these residencies are intensely interested in teaching University of Pittsburgh students. The experience and depth of commitment of these teachers is outstanding. Having the ability to place medical students in the residencies assists in achieving the SOM goal to increase the portion of the curriculum in the ambulatory setting and to support the advancement of physician scientist education in the primary care arena.
UPMC McKeesport
UPMC Shadyside
UPMC St. Margaret |
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| Combined Family Medicine and Psychiatry Residency |
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The goal of creating a combined Family Medicine and Psychiatry Residency Training Program at UPMC is to utilize the excellent resources of both the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of the University of Pittsburgh to train physicians in both specialties who will be poised to provide comprehensive medical and psychiatric services to a broad spectrum of patients in the community and to be leaders in academic family medicine and psychiatry. There are currently only ten such combined programs in the country and none are in Pennsylvania. There is also currently a need in Pittsburgh to provide integrated health care services to a vulnerable population whose needs were formerly covered by another institution in the area that has closed. We will combine the tremendous resources of two highly regarded residency training programs within the same medical system in Pittsburgh to produce broadly-based trainees who will be uniquely qualified to combine medical and psychiatric treatment to populations who require comprehensive health care services.
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| Consortium of Family Practice Residencies |
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The Department of Family Medicine and the UPMC Family Practice Residencies participates in the Consortium of Family Practice Residencies. The purpose of this consortium is to further the education of residents in Family Medicine, to encourage research in primary care and to provide students with more beneficial rotations. The collaborative effort with these residency programs provides outstanding teaching and has the potential of becoming a research resource.
Members of the Consortium include:
UPMC St Margaret
UPMC Shadyside
UPMC McKeesport
Latrobe Area Hospital
Washington Hospital
Meadville Medical Center
UPMC Horizon |
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