Please use the links below to obtain detailed information about our curricular areas and the structure of our residency program. The following video highlights several of our specialists with whom residents collaborate both within the hospital and in community settings.
The first year at Altoona Family Physicians focuses extensively on the basics of family medicine to build a strong foundation with a heavy emphasis on inpatient medicine, outpatient medicine, obstetrics, and pediatrics.
The second year at Altoona Family Physicians builds upon the strong foundation created during the first year of training with several specialty rotations, more time in the office, and supervision of first-year residents.
The third year at Altoona Family Physicians builds upon the previous training with significant elective time to help prepare you for independent practice.
Altoona Family Physicians recognizes that Osteopathic Principles involve more than OMT. The program emphasizes the patient-centered approach of Family and Osteopathic Medicine.
Trainees are able to participate in global health trips with faculty, which take place multiple times per year.
Lifestyle medicine helps to address root causes of much of the chronic disease that we see in our patients.
We have a number of family medicine-obstetrics faculty who collaborate closely with the Magee Women's Specialty Services and Laborist teams on our Labor and Delivery Unit where over 1500 babies are born each year!
Need for hospice and palliative medicine will only continue to grow as population demographics shift. A skilled family physician should understand the basic principles of hospice and palliative medicine.
Our trainees team up with the pediatric hospitalist for every newborn, child, and teen in the hospital.
In combination with the orthopedics rotation, trainees may gain further experience with local high school teams, college teams, and teams at the Mario Lemieux sports complex in Pittsburgh.
At UPMC Altoona Family Physicians, resident wellness is a priority. We introduce resident wellness during Orientation, and this support continues throughout your residency. Our faculty are responsive to resident needs and have an "open-door" policy.
Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee is dedicated to fostering a welcoming and supportive environment for individuals of all backgrounds, beliefs, ages, gender identities, expressions, and sexual orientations.
The individual curriculum concentrations (ICC), also known as "tracks," allow AFP residents the opportunity to focus on an individual area of study during their residency.
Along with an excellent primary curriculum, we have a robust elective experience. Residents have over 6 months of elective time to help guide their training to prepare them for their time after graduation.
As an unopposed family medicine residency program, our residents gain hands on experience doing procedures in almost every rotation.
We have a call system that balances progressive responsibility with appropriate supervision. We abide by ACGME work hours regardless of the rotation and constantly seek to ensure the wellbeing of our residents.
We have a rigorous didactic schedule that balances learning and resident wellness.
Altoona Family Medicine program offers training in Musculoskeletal/Ultrasound, Weight Management, Diabetes, Palliative Medicine, Colposcopy, and OMM clinics.