Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra-Northwell at New Milford Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a new, small unopposed rural family medicine residency (4 residents/class) based at New Milford Hospital in western Connecticut, now under the Zucker SOM-Northwell umbrella, built around a fully integrated hospital-based Family Medicine Practice with graduated continuity panels (1 to 5 half-days/week across PGY1-3). Training spans multiple community and referral hospitals (New Milford, Sharon, Danbury, Norwalk, Putnam, Vassar Brothers), giving residents exposure to varied inpatient settings, disease mixes, and care teams while remaining the sole housestaff at their home site. Research is faculty-mentored and QI-driven rather than a core identity feature, emphasizing patient-panel-based quality improvement, journal club, and optional research electives with presentation venues at Resident Research Day. The program explicitly frames itself as an "entrepreneurial," ground-floor opportunity for residents to help shape curriculum and program culture, prioritizing rural, underserved, full-scope primary care generalism over subspecialty or academic pipeline production.