Residency Programs
St. Luke's-Roosevelt sponsors 30 accredited residency training programs in every possible field of medicine but not Pediatrics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Urology, Neurology, Family Medicine, Otolaryngology, nor fellowships in Rheumatology, Burn Surgery, Vitreoretinal Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, Gynecologic Oncology, Ocular Pathology, Multiple Sclerosis, Uveitis, Allergy Immunology, Sleep Medicine, Pediatric Cardiology, and many others. The Department of Medicine trains 158 residents and an additional 39 fellows; one of the largest programs in New York State and in the top 10 largest nationally. Each program enjoys full accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the institution itself is accredited for the maximum 5 year cycle. The Internal Medicine Training Program is one of the most progressive programs in the country utilizing unique strategies to ensure that residents can learn from every patient. These innovations include a "drip system" for distributing admissions and no overnight call anywhere in the training program. In addition, the department limits the number of patients that can be carried by an intern to no more than 11. 83% of the programs in NY, NJ and all of New England still allow interns to carry 12 patients. The program also has its own "Simulation Lab" for training residents and the Program Director, Dr. Ethan Fried is the principal investigator for the New York State Near Miss Registry which is sponsored by the New York State Department of Health as a risk free, anonymous reporting system to record near miss medical errors and the barriers that kept these errors from reaching patients.
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