University at Buffalo (UB)
Buffalo VA Medical Center
This 199-bed, 1.4 million-square-foot facility provides medical, surgical, mental health, long-term and outpatient care.
The VA Western New York Healthcare System provides care to more than 44,000 veterans annually. Although patients hail primarily from the westernmost eight counties of Upstate New York, the hospital serves as the inpatient specialty care referral site for all veterans west of Syracuse.
Patients present with a wide range of disease states, encompassing one of the highest case severity indexes within the Veterans Health Affairs system.
The Buffalo VA Medical Center is the main referral center for area veterans seeking cardiac surgery, cardiology care and comprehensive cancer care.
It is one of only 12 VA medical centers nationwide conducting a trial of real-time, Internet-based electronic medical records exchanges with private sector hospitals, including all UB medical school rotation sites.
Highlights
At this training site, you can expect to develop key evaluation skills with regards to endocrinology, including history taking, physical examination, ordering appropriate investigations and formulating treatment plans.
Here, you can also learn how to work with information technology in health care — and analyze information collected by a health care organization — to improve patient-care quality.
Further, this is a site where you’ll gain outpatient experience that prepares you to competently diagnose, treat and manage gynecologic disorders and women’s health challenges.