United Health Services Chenango Memorial Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a new, community-based rural family medicine residency at a small hospital in Norwich, NY, explicitly created to train full-spectrum physicians for rural practice, with on-site inpatient, obstetric, and emergency department exposure supplemented by ties to the larger UHS Family Medicine program in Binghamton. Curriculum breadth (OB every year, ICU, palliative medicine, sports medicine, geriatrics, community medicine blocks) reflects a full-spectrum generalist model rather than a subspecialty pipeline. The program is small and faculty-driven rather than research-heavy, with longstanding community physicians serving as core teachers, and it draws heavily on osteopathic and IMG-trained faculty and residents. Its identity centers on producing broadly-skilled rural family physicians grounded in social determinants of health, professionalism, and community service rather than academic or fellowship output.