Welcome to Fitchburg Family Medicine!
Our program continues its tradition of providing superior Family Medicine residency training in the North Worcester County area as it has for nearly 30 years.
Here are a few highlights about our innovative program:
- UMass is ranked as one of the top 10 academic centers for Primary Care.
- Our residency is community-based.
- We recognize the importance of family and quality of life for our residents.
- We are dually accredited by the ACGME and by the AOA.
- Our health center is a Federally Qualified Community Health Center. We are very excited that our new health center building is currently under construction and will open in 2012. Learn more here!)
- Our Behavioral Health Department is nationally recognized.
Please note that we also encourage visiting medical students to complete elective rotations with us - for more information, click here!
I hope that you will decide to apply to our program. Please take advantage of the information our website offers and feel free to contact me anytime for more information. (read more).
James Ledwith, MD
Residency Director
Interested in keeping up-to-date about life around the Fitchburg Family Medicine residency? Check out archives of our Residency Update newsletters.
Want to see our residency from the insider's perspective? Click to watch a brief (about two minutes) video clip!
FITCHBURG FAMILY MEDICINE NEWSLINE
SAVE THE DATES!!
Attention all UMass Fitchburg residency graduates! SAVE THE DATES June 29-30, 2012 for our 30th anniversary residency reunion. We invite all grads and former faculty to join us for a Saturday morning CME event, tour of the new center, and brunch. More details to follow. (Use blue button on bottom left of this page to provide us with your email for residency updates.)
A great article about UMass Medical School is featured on the front page of the May 4, 2012 Boston Globe: "UMass Medical School Quietly Gaining "Star Quality." Read the article.
Welcome to our New Residents! Match Day 2012 was a big success and we are looking forward to welcoming our 2012-2013 interns here on July 1. Meet them here!
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New Health Center Almost Ready! We are preparing to move into the new building in the
coming weeks. View
photos of the building in progress!
UMass Ranked # 7 in Primary Care! Check out the 2012 rankings from US News and World Report!
Read Our Residency Blogs! Check out new on-line journals by our current residents: "A Day in the Life" at Fitchburg and two new Global Health Track blogs all about the Track's 2012 trip to Nicaragua! One is for our PGY-1 class and the other is for our PGY-2 class as they return for a second year to Nicaragua. Learn more about our Global Health Track at the program's website.
Dr. Nic Apostoleris, Assistant Professor and Vice President of Behavioral Health & ACTION Health Center Director received the 2nd Annual John A. DeMalia Leadership Award at our health center's (CHC) annual meeting. The award recognizes “leadership, vision, dedication, commitment, integrity, and respect for others.” CHC's Board of Directors selects the award winner based on nominations submitted by the staff.