Curriculum

The Family Practice Residency Program at Saint Vincent Hospital offers unparalleled inpatient clinical experiences and two main outpatient/office training sites.

As a curriculum elective, we offer a Wilderness Medicine Track and Sports Medicine Tracks

Rotation schedule

Training sites

Saint Vincent Hospital

Saint Vincent Hospital is a 385-bed tertiary care center where the majority of our inpatient rotations take place. Saint Vincent serves 200,000+ patients in Erie County as well as 16 surrounding counties in Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio.  Saint Vincent is one of seven Allegheny Health Network hospitals. 

Saint Vincent Family Medicine

Conveniently located adjacent to Saint Vincent Hospital is the primary site of our ambulatory experience. This office offers a comprehensive and collaborative learning environment with a focus on continuity and prevention. Multiple specialty clinics are regularly implemented throughout the month to allow for more focused and individualized care (as below). We have an on-site point-of-care lab with microscopy, procedural suite, OMT designated rooms, EKG machine, and a new SonoSite ultrasound. 

Wilderness medicine track

Where: Saint Vincent Family Medicine Residency, Erie PA

Why: Teach austere medicine skills to all residents, and prepare intensive track residents for fellowship status with the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM)

What: Core Curriculum, trips and other activities available to all residents

Provided by the program: 

• Membership in the Wilderness Medicine Society
• Wilderness Medicine text by Paul Auerbach
• Registration with the Academy of Wilderness Medicine

From your CME stipend:

• Attend a national or international WM conference
• Complete a Wilderness Advanced Life Support course (WALS or AWLS)

Possible activities:

• Present a few core curriculum lectures
• Organize a WM Interest Group to meet regularly, evenings
• Complete and publish a research project
• Give lectures to the community
• Write articles for the local newspaper
• Arrange a WM “destination” rotation on one of your away months
• Help to organize backcountry ‘trips” and skills workshops
• Work with and possibly join first responders and other rescuers, ski patrol, DMAT
• Gain a greater appreciation for the benefits of time spent in the wilderness 
  

Sports medicine track

Goals

Our track is based on the official American Medical Society of Sports Medicine's (AMSSM) Fellowship Preparation Track to provide residents with a curriculum to develop and hone their knowledge and skills of sports-based medicine and the
musculoskeletal system. 

PGY1

• Development of core competencies through sports medicine specific didactics and hands on skill sections including ultrasound
• Involvement in pre-participation physical exams and sideline coverage
• Opportunity to participate in scholarly projects, clinical ultrasound sessions, and
  Mass sporting events (ie., Beast on the Bay, Erie Marathon)

PGY2

• Sports medicine rotation incorporating:
  • Pre-participation physicals, sideline coverage, and athletic training rooms
  • Clinical experience in sports medicine and orthopedic clinics
  • Integrated US curriculum and experience
• Preference for participation in mass sporting events
• Monthly journal club with sports medicine fellows
• Preparation and delivery of high-yield sports medicine topic lectures
• Attendance/presentation at a national sports medicine conference

PGY3

• Team physician for High school athletics and further sideline coverage
• Monthly journal club with sports medicine fellows
• Preparation and delivery of high-yield sports medicine topic lectures
• Attendance/presentation at a national sports medicine conference

*Please contact sports medicine tract co-directors Kathleen Costanzo, DO (Kathleen.Costanzo@ahn.org) or Philip St. Julien, DO (Philip.St.Julien@ahn.org) for more information.