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 health center provides up to $5,000 for medical school loan assistance.
- 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
Application season has officially begun! To mark the occasion, we would like to introduce blogs by two of our PGY-2 residents: "A Day in the Life" by Amanda Iantosca, DO and our "Global Health Track" blog by Elliot Schaeffer, DO! (And don't forget to check out the Global Health Track website.)
New Health Center Construction Continues! Another milestone was reached in May with a "Topping Off Ceremony" which placed a flag atop our new health center building on its way to its January 2012 opening. View photos of the building in progress!
UMass Ranked Top 10 in Primary Care and Top 20 in Family Medicine! Check out the 2011 rankings from US News and World Report here!
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.
Our residency was delighted to host Roland Goertz, MD, President of the American Academy of Family Physicians at our recent MassAFP meeting. Dr. Goertz met with our Fitchburg residents and faculty during our business meeting. Tim Lowney, PGY-1, was also appointed as resident representative to the Board of Directors at that meeting.