University at Buffalo-Sisters of Charity Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based, osteopathically-recognized family medicine program at Sisters of Charity Hospital in Buffalo, NY, affiliated with the University at Buffalo GMEC consortium and Catholic Health System, with a 30+ year osteopathic heritage and all positions designated as osteopathic training slots. The clinical environment centers on high-volume obstetrics (the most annual deliveries in Western New York, with combined critically-ill mother-baby capability and a NICU), broad inpatient family medicine, and a continuity clinic embedded in a private-practice setting rather than a hospital-based clinic model. Career orientation is squarely primary care and community practice, with dedicated research modules in PGY-2/3 but no fellowship pipeline or academic research infrastructure emphasized; the program instead stresses continuity of care, leadership development, global/mission health, and local practice placement after training. The program explicitly values fit with its mission-driven, tight-knit, family-oriented culture and osteopathic identity, seeking residents invested in whole-person, community-rooted primary care rather than subspecialization.