Buffalo General Medical Center
Located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Buffalo General Medical Center offers a wide spectrum of clinical inpatient and outpatient treatment programs.
This 500-bed acute care center, located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, is one of the region’s major hospitals.
Much of the patient base comes from the local urban area. The hospital also serves as a tertiary referral center, with a significant patient population drawn from Western New York’s eight counties.
Patients present with the entire range of disease states in internal medicine, general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery, with many critically ill cases.
Training
Our BGMC training site gives you experience with the pulmonary consultation service and the medical intensive care unit.
Using the ultrasound technology available at our BGMC site, you will receive training on ultrasound-guided thoracentesis for intensive care patients as well as inpatients and outpatients.
You will also have the opportunity to participate in cardiopulmonary exercise testing.
Along with your inpatient consult responsibilities at BGMC, we encourage you to attend at our pulmonary hypertension clinic, where you will benefit from the supervision of experts in the field.
Rotations
Faculty
- medical director of pulmonary hypertension programs
- five faculty for pulmonary inpatient services and outpatient clinic
- one sleep medicine specialist
- three intensivitsts
- one cystic fibrosis clinic faculty member
- one pulmonary hypertension specialist
- one research faculty member
Patient Population
- 55% female
- 45% male
- 15-25% Medicare patients in the ambulatory clinic
- 35% Medicare patients on hospital services