University at Buffalo (UB)
Erie County Medical Center
This 583-bed medical center is one of the area’s leading health care providers. It serves as a regional center for trauma, burns, rehabilitation and cardiac care and is the region’s largest safety-net hospital.
Located on the eastern side of Buffalo, this 583-bed acute care center admits patients from the local urban area, as well as a wide referral range that encompasses all eight counties of Western New York.
ECMC is a verified Level 1 Adult Trauma Center and a regional center for burn care, behavioral health services, transplantation, medical oncology and head & neck cancer care, and rehabilitation.
Case presentations span the range of disease states in internal medicine and general surgery, with many critically ill cases.
Training
You will serve as a principal consultant for medicine, surgery and psychiatric services for the Emergency Department as well as for inpatients.
ECMC houses the HIV/AIDS & Immunodeficiency clinic, a multidisciplinary clinic that provides care for HIV-positive patients and is staffed by specialists in infectious disease, hepatology and gynecology.
You will work one-on-one with an attending gynecologist to provide a full spectrum of obstetric and gynecologic care to patients in the clinic.
In addition to gaining clinical experience managing obstetric and gynecologic issues of HIV positive women, you will learn to work within a multidisciplinary team providing coordinated care for a unique patient population.
Rotations
Faculty and Staff
- seven full-time general OB-GYN faculty
Patient Population
- 55% female
- 45% male
- 15-25% Medicare patients in the ambulatory clinic
- 35% Medicare patients on hospital services