Stony Brook Medicine-Southampton Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This Stony Brook-affiliated Family Medicine program based at Southampton Hospital blends an academic university identity with a community, suburban East End Long Island practice setting, explicitly branding itself as offering "the best of both worlds." Its curriculum extends well beyond core STFM requirements into Integrative Medicine, Medical Acupuncture, Biopsychosocial Medicine, Hospice/Palliative Medicine, Addiction Medicine, LGBT Medicine, and a dedicated Social Medicine rotation focused on how social and economic conditions shape health and disease. The sponsoring department's structure (Population Health & Community Medicine, Medicine in Society divisions) signals an institutional emphasis on population-level and social determinants scholarship as an intellectual backdrop, though this is departmental infrastructure rather than a stated resident research mandate. The program's stated mission centers on developing "medical leaders" committed to lifelong learning and social medicine ideals, valuing residents drawn to whole-person, biopsychosocial and community-oriented primary care over narrow procedural or subspecialty tracks.