New York Medical College-Lower Bucks Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Lower Bucks Hospital's Family Medicine Residency is a small, community hospital-based, ACGME-accredited program with roots in osteopathic training philosophy, located just outside Philadelphia. The curriculum emphasizes an outpatient-centered, longitudinal continuity clinic experience (1000 hours over three years), broad exposure across inpatient, OB, geriatrics, and community medicine, with flexibility for residents to pursue individualized electives inside or outside the hospital. Scholarly activity and a quality improvement project are required but structured as a modest expectation rather than a research-driven identity, supported by a scholarly committee and conference stipends. Graduate outcomes are overwhelmingly community-based outpatient practice, urgent care, and hospitalist roles, with occasional fellowship placements (sports medicine, geriatrics, emergency medicine), reflecting a program oriented toward producing generalist, community-facing family physicians rather than academicians.