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Overview
Ambulatory Medicine
Inpatient Medicine
Research
Electives
Teaching Affiliation
Geriatrics
Special Needs
Rotations
Faculty
THREE YEAR PROGRAM
Overview
Abington Memorial Hospital has a long and rich tradition of
postgraduate training in Internal Medicine. We excel in our
ability to provide a
comprehensive, rigorous
training experience while also
maintaining a personal
concern for each resident and
their professional interests.
The objective of the Internal
Medicine Program at
Abington is to provide quality
training which will lead to a
rewarding career as a General Internist certified by the
American Board of Internal Medicine and, for those who
choose, further subspecialty training in Medicine. This
residency offers an effective scholarly approach to the
provision of inpatient and outpatient adult medical care for
eight residents in each year of the three year categorical
program and eight in the one year preliminary Internal
Medicine Residency Program.
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Ambulatory Medicine
Ambulatory Medicine constitutes over one third of the
training in our program. This ambulatory experience is
provided both onsite at the Hospital General Medicine and
Multispecialty clinic and offsite in over 10 affiliated faculty
throughout our community. Supervision is provided at all
times by a full time faculty member. First year residents
have additional ambulatory experience in such disciplines
as office Gynecology, Otolaryngology, and
Ophthalmology. Third year residents receive additional
experience in disciplines such as office Orthopedics,
Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Dermatology, and
Rheumatology. Each intern has one longitudinal office
based session per week. Second and third year residents
spend a minimum of two office sessions per week in their
longitudinal practice precepted by an experienced General
Internist. During the residency a minimum of three block
months are dedicated to Ambulatory Medicine. For those
interested in a career in Primary Care, the Program
provides opportunities to take electives in Ambulatory
Medicine, thus increasing total time spent in the outpatient
setting to almost 50%. Complementing the clinical
exposures is the Ambulatory Care Curriculum which was
developed at this institution. Residents have one on one
sessions with faculty to review modules in the Curriculum
which focus on common outpatient problems. The variety
of outpatient experiences and didactics provide each
resident with comprehensive ambulatory training.
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Inpatient Medicine
A general medicine service provides the basis for inpatient
teaching and experience. A broad spectrum of disease is
seen in our patients, and care is provided by teams
consisting of medical students, intems, upper year
residents, and an Attending Physician. All patient
management is provided by the housestaff on these
teaching services. The teaching service is arranged to
provide each intern on the General Medicine service with
eight to twelve patients. Four to six patients are followed
by the intems while working in the Intensive Care Unit. A
nonteaching service is maintained to handle patient volume
above these limits. Teaching Attendings meet with their
resident/ student teams three times weekly for an hour and
a half to utilize a bedside evaluation and case discussion.
The key elements in Abington's successful education of the
Internist are the broad range of clinical problems, the well
prepared and dedicated medical staff and the progressive
increments in patient management responsibility delegated
to the housestaff.
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Research
All residents in the three year program participate in
scholarly research activity. The research program of the
Department is given significant resources to achieve its
goals. A full time research nurse coordinates this activity
and works closely with the housestaff and Attending
Physicians. Statistical services are also available. Residents
are encouraged to select a project advisor, who may be a
member of the Abington Memorial Hospital faculty or from
Temple University School of Medicine. Abstracts of the
work are submitted to the Regional National Associates
Research Competitions of the American College of
Physicians as well as other appropriate professional forums
such as The American College of Gastroenterology, The
American Federation for Clinical Research and the Society
for Medical Decision Making. Abington Residents have
frequently been invited to present their work at meetings,
both regional and national, of these societies. Research
project manuscripts and case reports are submitted to peer
reviewed journals for consideration for publication. Since
1990, 15 resident manuscripts have been published or
accepted for publication.
See our recent research activity
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Electives
Exposure to subspecialty area training is available within
the Program through a full range of electives that emphasize
medical care, consultations, outpatient office practice, and
procedural instruction.
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Teaching Affiliation
Abington Memorial Hospital is a major clinical campus of
the Temple University School of Medicine. A teaching
atmosphere is present throughout the medical service,
which incorporates second, third, and fourth year medical
students from Temple University. Students receive
instruction in Physical Diagnosis, General Medicine,
subspecialty electives and subinternships. The student's
presence fosters an inquiring and scholarly approach for
both housestaff.
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Geriatrics
The Program provides a special emphasis on Geriatric
Medicine given the changing demographics of our society
and its impact on Internal Medicine. A block rotation is
dedicated to this in the second year. This rotation,
supervised by Internists with Certification in Geriatrics,
involves life care communities, office practices and a long
term care facility to provide a comprehensive, longitudinal
experience in Geriatrics.
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Special Needs
Our program accommodates the needs of couples given
the special consideration concerning scheduling. As
needed, we will give consideration to extending the
residency to provide ample opportunity to fulfill domestic
responsibilities in addition to professional requirements.
The Program Director should be consulted about any
special needs.
With strong teaching in daily morning
report, noontime conferences, weekly
General Medicine and Subspecialty Grand
Rounds as well as the broad clinical
exposure obtained on rotations, our
residents do exceptionally well on the
ABIM board examination.
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INTERN YEAR
General Medicine
Coronary Care
Intensive Care
Emergency/Trauma
Outpatient Medicine
Outpatient Specialty
Electives
Conference Time
Vacation
Neurology
SECOND YEAR
General Medicine
Coronary Care
Admitting Officer
Oncology
Ambulatory Care
Electives
Conference Time
Vacation
Night Call
Geriatric Medicine
THIRD YEAR
General Medicine
Intensive Care
Emergency/Trauma
Ambulatory Care
Neurology
Flexible sigmoidoscopy
Electives
Conference Time
Vacation
Night Call
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FACULTY
David Gary Smith, M.D.,F.A.C.P..
Doron Schneider, M.D.
Margot Boigon, MD
Diane L. Dietzen, M.D., F.A.C.P..
Ann B. Peff, M.D.
Mary Hofmann, M.D., F.A.C.P.
James Hopkins, Ph.D., L.S.W
Richard W. Snyder, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.C.C.P.
George Diduzyn, MD
Andrew Rosensweig, MD
Baber Ghauri, MD
Aliya Ali, MD
Manuel Rosenberg, MD
Patrick Gill, MD
Lakshmi Karthikeyan, MD
Mary Naglak, PhD
TO FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION
 David Gary Smith, M.D.,
F.A.C.P. is
Program Director of the Internal Medicine
Residency. He is Chairman of the Bioethics
Committee at Abington Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Smith received his Medical Degree from
Temple University Medical School. His residency in
Internal Medicine was served at Barnes Hospital,
Washington University in St Louis. Dr. Smith did his
fellowship training through the Robert Wood Johnson
Clinical Fellowship Program of Yale University School of
Medicine. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
at the Temple University School of Medicine.
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Doron Schneider, M.D.
is Associate Program
Director
of the Internal Medicine Residency and Medical Director of the
Ambulatory Services Unit. Following graduation from the New
Jersey Medical School (UMDNJ), he completed a Primary Care
Track Residency in Internal Medicine at New England Deaconess
Hospital in Boston. Dr. Schneider is Founder of Community 2000,
a community outreach and educational program in Newark, NJ
sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is Assistant
Professor of Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine.
Dr. Schneider is Medical Director of the Ambulatory Service Unit
and Anticoagulation Clinic. In addition to his responsibilities at
Abington, Dr. Schneider is the health reporter for WPVI TV (ABC).
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Margot I. Boigon, M.D.
is Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency. Dr. Boigon
received her Medical Degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. She
was a Resident and Chief Resident at Temple University Hospital and did a
Primary Care Faculty Development Fellowship at Michigan State University.
Prior to coming to Abington Memorial Hospital, Dr. Boigon was an Associate
Professor of Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine where she was
the Director of the Internal Medicine Clerkship and Acting Chief of General
Internal Medicine. |
 Ann B. Peff, M.D. is Director of the
Medical Student Program. Following
graduation from the University of Virginia
School of Medicine, Dr. Peff began
residency training in Internal Medicine at
Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC.
Following one and one-half years of Anesthesia
Residency at the Hospital of the University of
Pennsylvania, she completed her third year of Internal
Medicine training at Abington Memorial Hospital. Her
clinical activities include resident supervision in the
Ambulatory setting.
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 Mary Hofmann, M.D., F.A.C.P. is the
director of Geriatric programs at Abington
Memorial Hospital. Dr. Hofmann received
her M.D. from Temple University Hospital.
She did her residency in Internal Medicine
and fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at the Medical
College of Pa. Prior to coming to Abington, Dr. Hofmann
was an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section Chief
and Fellowship Director in the Division of Geriatric
Medicine at Medical College of Pa. Dr. Hofmann is a
Certified Medical Director and her areas of interest in her
publications include medications in the elderly and care of
the patient in the nursing home.
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 Richard W. Snyder, M.D.,
F.A.C.P.,
F.C.C.P. is Co-Director of the Hallowell
Critical Care Units. Dr. Snyder received his
Medical Degree from the Temple University
Medical School and completed his Internal
Medicine Residency training at Abington Memorial
Hospital where he served as Chief Resident in his final
year. Dr. Snyder subsequently completed a Pulmonary
Fellowship at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. He
is board-certified in Pulmonary Medicine, Internal
Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Geriatric Medicine.
Dr. Snyder is the teaching coordinator in our Intensive
Care Unit. He is currently a member of the Disaster
Committee, Trauma Committee, Cancer Committee and
ICU Committee at Abington Memorial.
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 Diane L. Dietzen, M.D.,
F.A.C.P. is a
faculty member of Internal Medicine
Residency. She attended Temple University
School of Medicine, and completed her
residency at Temple University Hospital.
Since the completion of her training, Dr. Dietzen has
worked in Ambulatory and Inpatient settings with
residents at Temple Hospital, the Scranton-Temple
Residency Program, and the Medical College of
Pennsylvania Hospital. Her interests include ambulatory
curriculum development, ambulatory practice
management, and faculty development for faculty
interested in teaching residents and students.
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 James Hopkins, Ph.D., L.S.W., faculty, is
a graduate of Marywood University School
of Social Work and received his doctorate
degree in clinical social work from Barry
University, Miami, FL. He is a behavioral
science specialist and brings to the faculty an extensive
background in the field of mental health as clinician,
teacher and administrator. Dr. Hopkins has done
post-graduate training at the Philadelphia Child Guidance
Clinic and the Nathan Ackerman Institute, New York
City in family therapy. He is also a member of the
American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and a certified
hypnotherapist. His special interests are the role of
mind/body approaches and the doctor-patient relationship
in healing and pain management.
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