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.
Highlights
Because this training site houses our hepatology elective, this is the site where you can strengthen your understanding of liver disease and develop your ability to recognize, diagnose and treat liver diseases routinely seen in an outpatient and follow-up setting.
If you undertake our addiction medicine elective, this training site is one of the locations where we’ll strengthen your foundational knowledge of addiction medicine. Further, we’ll expose you to the different levels of care for substance use disorders and train you on harm reduction approaches to treatment of addiction.
Additionally, ECMC is a site where you’ll have opportunities to undertake quality improvement projects and research. You can participate in projects covering a wide range of topics with the mentoring of our faculty experts.