Our FacilitiesAmbulatory SettingsResidents have their continuity practice for all three years at either the Highland Family Health Center or the Brown Square Community Health Center (westside). Each site provides residents a group-practice experience. Residents develop general skills and patterns of practice which they can later apply to patient care in a variety of settings. Highland Family Medicine (South Clinton Avenue)
Our immunization tracking and lead tracking programs have been recognized by local medical and public health officials as the best in Rochester. We have recently added the Reach Out and Read program, which allows us to give children's books to all children who come in for well-child visits. A computer system assists with patient records, billing, provider feedback, quality assurance, and faculty research. Patient exam rooms are supplemented by a casting room, a treatment/minor surgery room, and family therapy rooms. Colposcopy is available. Facilities for videotaping and observing patient encounters are available in both small and large rooms, the latter for family meetings with patients. There's a reference library with access to Medline and MiracleNet. HFM Neighborhood Health Fair Brown Square Community Health Center (Westside)The Inner City Family Medicine Track was initiated in 1981 to provide the opportunity for interested residents to develop the skills necessary to care for an inner city population. Up to six residents develop their three-year continuity practices at the Brown Square Community Health Center. It's one of two locations that make up Westside Health Services, a federally funded Public Health Service Section 330 community health center.
The center is staffed by full-time family physicians, family medicine residents, and nurse practitioners. Videotaping is also available at Brown Square. NRMP Match Numbers
Hospital SettingsI really miss the stimulation and academic diversity/open mindedness that was so much a part of Rochester." ~ A '97 graduate The program is a hybrid of community-based and university-based models. Highland Hospital (HH)Highland is a 268-bed community hospital affiliated with the University of Rochester. It's the Family Medicine Program's home hospital, where the majority of inpatient training occurs. A collaborative group of generalists and specialists provide a broad range of teaching. The medical library has a good reference collection, journal selection, free copying, internet access, and a fax connection to other medical libraries in the area. There are resident rooms on the 5th through 7th floors with lab and internet access. Residents rotate through medicine, OB/GYN, emergency, and surgery at Highland. Strong Memorial Hospital (SMH)
Rochester General Hospital (RGH)
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Initially
based on the practices of the founding faculty, the practice has grown
to over 18,000 primary care patients from 7,000 families throughout
Rochester. They represent the full spectrum of age, race, and socioeconomic
backgrounds. The practice, which is free from the instrusion and influence of pharmaceutical representatives, is functionally divided into six suites. Each has faculty and resident physicians, family nurse practitioners, registered
nurses, medical assistants, and secretaries. Additional resources include onsite mental health services, an
immunization outreach worker, and a social worker. Please also see our 
About 10 minutes from Highland Hospital,
the center provides comprehensive health care to the indigent, working poor, the uninsured, and some HMO participants. Patients represent diverse heritages, including African-American, Caribbean, Italian, Puerto Rican, Southeast Asian (Vietnamese, Cambodian, Burmese),
African (Somali, Sudanese, Liberian), and Eastern European. Westside Health Services provides medical, dental, and support services, including on-site mental
health services, a social worker, a dietitian, a perinatal outreach worker,
and HIV case management. 
Strong is 722-bed tertiary care center and houses the medical school library. It provides primary
care to a large indigent clinic population. It is the main teaching
hospital for the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry,
with residency programs in most fields. Our training at Strong includes
pediatrics (one month in the second year), and part of psychosocial medicine
(outpatient only, in a four-month block during the second year). Residents can explore many subspecialty electives. 
RGH is 547-bed private teaching hospital with an independent residency program
in OB/GYN and a university program in pediatrics. It has a busy emergency
department and a Level II nursery. Residents do several rotations there: pediatrics
(four months), emergency/outpatient (two months), special care nursery (one month), surgical emergency room (one month in PGY1) and the pediatric floor (one month).
Both staff and community attendings admit to the pediatric service; all
special care nursery infants have a neonatologist as attending. Electives include radiology and orthopaedics. The library includes practical videotapes on casting, suturing,
and other hands-on skills. 