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The Family Medicine Residency offers a unique opportunity to tailor your educational needs.  We offer senior residents the opportunity to pursue special emphasis tracks which enable the resident to use elective time to receive additional training in one or more facets of Family Medicine.  All of these have a formalized curriculum and a physician advisor.  All residents are eligible to participate in these tracks assuming they are in good academic status.  Special emphasis tracks are formally recognized by the program and awarded a certificate upon graduation.

Alternative Medicine: Our curriculum is developed in collaboration with Dr. Joseph Helms, a world renowned expert in the field of acupuncture. The course is taught on site with Victor Elinoff, MD, the Director of the Medical Acupuncture Program at United Health Services, and he serves with Dr. Janice Pegels, MD.  Both oversee the acupuncture clinic at the Johnson City Family Care Center.  The program offers adequate exposure to acupuncture with the ability to become certified in acupuncture during the residency training program.
Advisor: Victor Elinoff, MD, Janice Pegels, MD

Dermatology: The Dermatology area of concentration offers the residents an expanded training in dermatology.  The purpose of this track is to expand and amplify the learning achieved during the dermatology rotation training in the residency program.  Residents in this track will receive additional training in the area of dermatology with a concentration on more procedural training, advanced dermatology training, such as methotrexine prescribing, psoriasis, wound care training, additional training in the area of acne and exposure to cosmetic dermatology and laser therapy.  The residents will work with board-certified dermatologists, as well as other physicians with expertise in the area.  Recognized special emphasis track by ACOFP.
Advisor: James Crosby, MD, Romeo Morales, MD

Geriatric Medicine: Participate in one focused block rotation in your second year and two blocks in your third year working exclusively with Geriatric patients and physicians certified in Geriatric Medicine.  Residents in the Geriatric track will also be given the opportunity to maintain a more traditionally Geriatric patient population in the continuity out-patient clinic.
Advisor: James Crosby, MD, Shawn Berkowitz, MD

Hospitalist Medicine: For Family Medicine residents with a significant interest in in-patient medicine, this track allows you to focus on additional training on in hospital medicine and is ideal prep for those pursuing a career as a hospitalist physician, with additional blocks on in-patient rotations including Internal Medicine as well as ICU and/or CCU.
Advisor: Roger Scott, DO

Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine: As a hospital that offers dually accredited residency programs, all of our residents have the opportunity to learn Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy techniques.  In addition to weekly lectures and monthly grand-rounds, you will also participate in one or more of our five weekly outpatient clinics and our in-patient referral service.
Advisor: Marita Powell, DO

Rural Medicine: Residents interested in practicing in a rural area will find all the training you need at Wilson.  Special emphasis will be placed on developing the procedural skills necessary to be of greatest assistance to medically underserved areas.  Residents in the Rural Medicine track will also be given the opportunity to spend a portion of their continuity clinic time in rural clinics in and around the Greater Binghamton area.
Advisor: Richard Terry, DO

Sports Medicine: Tracked residents interested in Sports Medicine will spend one second year block rotation and two third year blocks working with Sports Medicine physicians and fellows in and around the Binghamton area including time in the UMA Sports Medicine Clinic and with local high school, Division I college (Binghamton University) and professional athletic teams.
Advisor: Christine Blonski, DO, Donald Nash, MD

Urgent Care Medicine: Residents interested in practicing urgent care medicine will find this a very attractive track.  This special emphasis will be placed on urgent care medicine.  Exposures will primarily be in the urgent care centers in the region as well as additional training in acute care medicine at the Johnson City Family Care Center.  Residents are expected to develop additional expertise in urgent care medicine.  Time will be spent between training in the urgent care centers and in the Emergency Department.
Advisor: Peter Lo Faso, MD

Women’s Health and Obstetrics: For those who envision themselves as the prototypical Family Physician, caring for patients from birth to earth.  This track focuses your patient load in the continuity clinic with a higher percentage of female and pre-natal patients that you will follow through to delivery and beyond as well as expanded training in obstetric ultrasound.  This track also offers an emphasis on gynecological procedures as well as faculty and staff support to help each resident secure an away rotation in high-risk obstetrics.
Advisor: Hannah Bujak, MD

International Medicine (Non-Track Opportunity): For residents who see themselves practicing outside of the United States with a medically underserved population or who simply want to broaden their horizons.  You will have the opportunity to join one of our Wilson physicians who give of themselves through International medical missions.