Note: This page reflects data from 2007 to 2008
Director's Name: Mary Elizabeth Anne Roth, MD
Phone Number: (570) 826-7864
Fax Number: (570)826-7387
Web Site: www.geisinger.org
Program Code: 368592005
Program Structure:2AResidency Location: Suburban Rural
Primary Hospital for Family Medicine Residency Admissions: Geisinger Wyoming Valley
Total Beds: 200Number of Family Medicine Centers:3
Number of Hospitals for Admitting: 1
Number of Hospitals for Required Rotations: 3
Year of Initial Approval: 2008
- Other Residencies (not services) in the Hospitals used for Required Rotations:
- Surgery
Total Number of Graduates: 0
- Offered Positions 2007- 2008:
- Post-Graduate Year 1: 4
- Post-Graduate Year 2: 0
- Post-Graduate Year 3: 0
- Filled Positions 2007- 2008:
- Post-Graduate Year 1: 4
- Post-Graduate Year 2: 0
- Post-Graduate Year 3: 0
- Resident Females 2007- 2008:
- Post-Graduate Year 1: 2
- Post-Graduate Year 2: 0
- Post-Graduate Year 3: 0
- Under-represented minorities 2007- 2008:
- Post-Graduate Year 1: 0
- Post-Graduate Year 2: 0
- Post-Graduate Year 3: 0
- Resident Salaries 2007- 2008:
- Post-Graduate Year 1:$46,462
- Post-Graduate Year 2:$48,116
- Post-Graduate Year 3:$49,013
- Weeks Paid Vacation 2007- 2008
- Post-Graduate Year 1:3
- Post-Graduate Year 2:3
- Post-Graduate Year 3:3
- Other Benefits:
Liability Insurance: Yes Housing Allowance: No Time Off for Conferences: Yes Health Insurance: Yes Meals: No Funds for Conferences: Yes Life Insurance: No Laundry: No Sick/Personal Time: Yes Disability Insurance: Yes Parking: Yes
- Average Annual In-Hospital Night Call Frequency:
- Post-Graduate Year 1: Every 15-28 days
- Post-Graduate Year 2: Greater than every 28th day
- Post-Graduate Year 3: Greater than every 28 days
- Night Float Rotation or Coverage yes or no:
- Post-Graduate Year 1: No
- Post-Graduate Year 2: No
- Post-Graduate Year 3: No
- Average Annual Frequency of Other Trips to Hospital as Result of Night Calls Taken at Home:
- Post-Graduate Year 1: None
- Post-Graduate Year 2: Greater than every 28 days
- Post-Graduate Year 3: Greater than every 28 days
- Faculty to Residents Ratio During Patient Care Hours:
- 1 Faculty : 1 Residents
- Full-Time Equivalent Staff and Faculty at the Residency Program:
FP-MD/DO : 2 Other-MD/DO : 1 Other Health Care Professional Faculty : 1 Physician Assistants or Nurse Practitioners : 0
- Average No. of Half Days per Week Spent by FP Residents in the Primary FP Center:
- Post-Graduate Year 1: 1
- Post-Graduate Year 2: 3
- Post-Graduate Year 3: 4
- Residency Training Time in Required Rotations:
OB (in Hospital): Two months General Surgery (in Hospital): Two months Pediatrics (in Hospital): Five months CCU/ICU: Two months
- Documentation:
- Computerized System for Each Resident's Experience Does Exist
- Resident Research:Encouraged, but optional
- Resident Organization in Hospital: Yes
- Fellowship:
- Offered in Sports Medicine -- May Lead to Graduate Degree, 2
- Clerkships/Preceptorships:
- Offered
Part-time or Shared Residencies: Not Offered On Site Child Care Services: Not offered International Rotation: Not Available
Incorporating the 10 aspects of the Future of Family Medicine in small town practices, its Top 100 tertiary hospital and an integrated system of care makes Geisinger Family Medicine real. By 2009 geriatric and sleep medicine fellowships join the sports medicine program. Residents carry rare night call immersed in continuity care daytime. Living family medicine as it should be with close faculty supervision in northeast Pennsylvania Geisinger.