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The Internal 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 areas of interest.  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.

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

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.
Advisor: James Crosby, MD, Shawn Berkowitz, MD

Hospitalist Medicine: For Internal Medicine residents with a significant interest in in-patient medicine, this track allows you to focus on additional training in hospital medicine and is ideal prep for those pursuing a career as a hospitalist physician, with additional blocks on in-patient rotations including Hospitalist Medicine electives 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.  In addition, DO’s are given the opportunity to moonlight in the OMT clinics as a supplement to their salary.
Advisor: Marita Powell, 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 schools, 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.  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

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.