THE PRIMARY CARE TRACK OF THE
INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Our Primary Care Track offers the opportunity for in-depth training in primary care medicine for residents whose goal is to practice general internal medicine.  Our primary care track offers a continuity ambulatory experience constituting 20% of the three year residency and follows all of the guidelines of New York Committee on Graduate Medical Education for a primary care residency.   Special features of the Primary Care Track include:

• Two half-day continuity sessions weekly, one at the Northport DVAMC and one in the General Medicine practice at Stony Brook. 
             
• PGY-1 rotations in Primary Care areas
• A “Psychosocial month” focuses on the  psychosocial aspects of medicine
• In-depth experience in interviewing techniques
• Enhanced learning about the many social and psychological issues which affect patients. 
•  Ambulatory Care Block.
  
  
• PGY-2 and 3 rotations in Primary Care areas
• Women's Health
•  Musculoskeletal Medicine
•  Dermatology
•  "Practice Primary Care Month.”, designed to expose Primary Care residents to the varied settings in which primary care is practiced, including rural medicine, a clinic which serves the medically indigent and surburban private practice.
  
  
• Primary Care conference series
• Review of clinical topics in primary care medicine
• Small group, Evidence-Based Medicine approach
  
  
• Women’s health track offered within the Primary Care
• Exceptional opportunity to develop special skills in the primary care of women.
• Residents have continuity outpatient gynecology as well as medicine continuity practice. 


• Residents graduating from Primary Care program who enter primary care practice in a physician-underserved area in New York State will be eligible for U.S. Federal Loan forgiveness of up to $30,000.

Continuity Clinic is two half days each week for all residents.

STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
DVAMC, NORTHPORT