A well-managed practice with an academic connection.
Dr. Gina Cuyler, an internist, spent some years as an emergency room physician before deciding she wanted the continuity with patients that one has as a primary care physician. She recently left another practice group to join one affiliated with URMC.
What did you gain by moving to a URMC practice group?
There were two significant gains: I believe in decision-making within a group, rather than by a more remote corporate structure. In this practice, there is decision-making right here. The atmosphere is one where everyone, from physicians to nurses to staff, is comfortable having a voice.
How does the academic connection work for you?
Along with caring for patients, I love to teach. I very much enjoy interacting with residents, in particular. Having a faculty appointment with URMC is something I deeply value.
What are signals to you that a practice group is well managed?
Simple things can be signals. A well-managed practice doesn't have long lines of frustrated patients waiting to be greeted by the receptionist, for example. Even in something as basic as that, you have the opportunity to say something positive to your patients.
A Premier Academic Environment
There is ample evidence that URMC maintains a premier academic environment with substantial contributions from primary care physicians.
Primary Care Physicians as Professors, Preceptors, Mentors
URMC physicians are members of the URMC faculty. Not all choose to teach, but there are opportunities to teach in the classroom or to accept students and residents within practices.
Outside Plaudits for the Academic Environment at URMC
URMC is rated as one of the top 17 academic centers for primary care medical education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry has received an unprecedented six-year accreditation for its residency programs from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
Solucient, a company that collects comprehensive data on hospitals and health systems in the U.S., has named Strong Memorial Hospital one of the top 15 teaching hospitals in the United States.
Rochester Ranks
14th nationally for the number
of patents produced.
(Greater Rochester Enterprise)