Third Year

Altoona Family Physicians Inpatient Medicine Service -  1 Block

• Team combined of intern and senior residents
• Supervise the interns and second-year resident
• Daily teaching and interdisciplinary rounds
• Run codes and rapid responses
• Perform admissions

Emergency Medicine/Urgent Care - 1 Block

• Chose to complete shifts in the Emergency Department or in the local Urgent care

ENT/Ophthalmology/Urology- 1 Block

• Work with local specialists in each of these areas in inpatient and outpatient settings.

Transitional Care Medicine and Health Quality Literacy - 1 Block

• Work with health care registries and measures to improve health care quality
• Assist the night float team with their responsibilities in the evenings
• See hospital follow up patients in the office

Night Float - 0.5 Blocks

• Supervise the intern and second-year resident on all services
• Perform admissions
• Run codes and rapid responses

Pediatrics - 1 Block

• One senior resident and one to two interns
• Typically coordinate care for 10 to 14 pediatric patients on service
• Admit all pediatric patients
• See pediatric patients in outpatient clinics and attend pediatric cardiology clinic
• Daily Teaching from local pediatricians
• Perform newborn exams
• Supervise intern
• Perform circumcisions
• Option to rotate at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Cardiology and Pulmonology - 1 Block

• ​Two weeks of each
• Work with local cardiologists and pulmonologists in the inpatient and outpatient settings

Rural - 1 Block

• Spend time seeing patients at our rural outpatient office in Williamsburg

Elective - 4 Blocks

• Can choose from a wide variety of electives offered at UPMC Altoona as well as throughout the entire UPMC system
• Can arrange international electives

Family Medicine Flex - 0.5 Blocks

• Take leadership of the team for 1 week on the inpatient and 1 week on the night float rotations orienting the new interns and providing mentorship during the first block of the year