Third Year

Altoona Family Physicians Inpatient Medicine Service -  1 month

• Team combined of intern and senior residents
• Supervise the interns and second-year resident
• Daily teaching and interdisciplinary rounds
• Run codes and rapid responses
• Perform admissions

Emergency Medicine - 1 month

• Work with the attendings in the ED for triage and disposition of patients
• Level III Trauma Center, stroke center, and cardiac center
• Work a variety of shifts

ENT/Ophthalmology/Urology

• Work with local specialists in each of these areas in inpatient and outpatient settings.

Transitional Care Medicine and Health Quality Literacy - 1 month

• Work with health care registries and measures to improve health care quality
• Assist the night float team with their responsibilities in the evenings
• See hospital follow up patients in the office

Night Float - 2 weeks

• Supervise the intern and second-year resident on all services
• Perform admissions
• Run codes and rapid responses

MSK Selective - 1 month

• Choose your own MSK elective from a variety of choices including orthopedics, OMM, MSK outpatient, Sports Medicine, and Rheumatology

Pediatrics - 1 month

• One senior resident and one to two interns
• Typically coordinate care for 10 to 14 pediatric patients on service
• Admit all pediatric patients
• See pediatric patients in outpatient clinics and attend pediatric cardiology clinic
• Daily Teaching from local pediatricians
• Perform newborn exams
• Supervise intern
• Perform circumcisions
• Option to rotate at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Cardiology and Pulmonology - 1 month

• ​Two weeks of each
• Work with local cardiologists and pulmonologists in the inpatient and outpatient settings

Rural - 1 month

• Spend time seeing patients at our rural outpatient office in Williamsburg

Elective - 14 weeks

• Can choose from a wide variety of electives offered at UPMC Altoona as well as throughout the entire UPMC system
• Can arrange international electives