The Heritage Valley Family Medicine Residency Program at Heritage Valley Beaver was accredited in 1979 and is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, LECOM, PCOM and the Duquesne School of Medicine.
The program emphasizes procedural skills as well as core family medicine and geriatric training. Residents experience the full spectrum of family medicine, including taking care of newborns and managing complicated patients in the intensive care unit.
Heritage Valley’s Family Medicine Residency Program is an unopposed program and located in a large and advanced health care facility. Consequently, our residents do not have to compete for patients, procedures or deliveries and, with the exception of the opportunity to train at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, are able to complete all rotations within the system. The outpatient training component occurs at the Family Medicine Center in Beaver Falls, PA. At the center, residents provide comprehensive medical care for many of the underserved patients in the region, exposing residents to exceptional training in ambulatory medicine. The Family Medicine Center is built around technology driven chronic disease state management and the principles of quality and patient focused care. It is constantly evolving in order to thrive in a progressive healthcare environment.
More than 250 residents have graduated from Heritage Valley’s Family Medicine Residency Program which is approved to accommodate six residents each year. The 13,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art Family Medicine Center is equipped to train the new generation of family medicine residents with access to Allscripts, a system-wide electronic health record (EHR) system and onsite imaging, labs and teaching facility.