Rochester Ranked 6th Best Place
to Live in America
The top 10 metropolitan areas are:
1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2. San Francisco,California
3. Seattle, Washington
4. Portland, Oregon
5. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
6. Rochester, New York
7. Washington, DC
8. San Jose–Sunnyvale, California
9. Boston, Massachusetts
10. Madison, Wisconsin
Places Rated Almanac (http://placesrated.com) recently ranked 379 metropolitan areas and found that Rochester had some of the finest cultural, educational, and recreational assets in the country. It was one of only two small metropolitan areas to make the top ten. “It reinforces what a great place Rochester is to live and raise a family,” said Mayor Robert J Duffy.
And another source ranks Rochester Number One for quality of life
As seen in the Rochester Business Journal, June 29, 2007: A New York City business magazine ranks Rochester as No. 1 among metropolitan regions of more than 1 million people in quality of life. Expansion Management, a publication for executives of companies looking to expand or relocate, compiled its rankings based on housing costs, crime rates, standard of living, traffic and commuting, commercial air access, continuing education opportunities and adult education levels, officials from Penton Media Inc. said. Some 362 metro areas were evaluated in nearly 50 statistical criteria, the company said.
Rochester was followed in the rankings by Pittsburgh; Austin, TX; Boston; and San Jose, CA. Click here to read more.
Welcome
The University of Rochester/Highland Hospital Family
Medicine Residency Program is the third oldest Family Medicine program in the country.
Enough about Rochester! Our residency website is the best place to check out the changes on the horizon as we take a great program and make
it even better. Here's a sneak preview, but keep checking our website for more additions. So far, here goes:
An exciting development for the program is our selection as one of the fourteen P4 programs in the country. P4 stands for Preparing Personal Physicians for Practice and is a six-year project to inspire and examine substantial innovation focused on changing the way family physicians are trained to practice medicine. P4 is a collaboration of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Program Directors, the American Board of Family Medicine, and TransforMED, a practice redesign initiative of the American Academy of Family Physicians. The P4 Initiative has the potential to inspire considerable changes in the content and structure of Family Medicine training, and we are very proud to be selected as one of the national leaders of this timely and critical educational innovation. The three areas of effort in our P4 project are:
- The revision of curriculum to include comprehensive training in quality improvement and practice redesign.
- A fundamental practice redesign with inclusion of major elements of the New Model of Family Medicine on one of the resident suites.
- The development of an Ideal MicroPractice with involvement of residents and fellows.
We’re expanding and
consolidating our new programming in Global Health, especially our
longterm commitment to the rural site in Honduras.
Rochester
put the psycho and social in biopsychosocial,
and we’re doing it again. The entire curriculum in Community
Medicine (CM) is being rebuilt from the ground up to give Rochester graduates
the skills needed for effective practice in the 21st Century. After a month-long intern CM rotation, residents carry out a longitudinal project over their next two years. (See the following.)
Two interns out of each incoming class are
selected to participate in this track. Applicants need to submit a one-page
statement of interest and previous experience in
leadership and/or political advocacy by March 1 of the year they match with us. Both residents will automatically be assigned to one of the six
commissions of the New York State Association of Family Physicians (NYSAFP) and, in that capacity, will participate in three cluster meetings per year, when all of the state commissions meet. The expenses for
these meetings will be covered, and the residency program
will cover expenses and guarantee that the resident commissioners can attend, providing
coverage for those weekends if they are on an inpatient rotation. On NYSAFP Lobby Day, which is in early March, they will meet, as a
contingent of NYSAFP family physicians, with
leaders of the NYS Senate and Assembly who are influential in health
matters or other areas of interest to the NYSAFP. This Track will serve as the longitudinal community medicine project for their
entire residency and will include attendance at the AAFP's national conference for medical students and residents (NCSM/NCFMR) every year, with the expectation to
write at least one resolution per year and actively to participate in NCFMR governance. The residents will be expected to create their own advocacy policy/issues, possibly involving a
vulnerable population, presenting this experience in the third residency year at NYSAFP
meetings and, if possible, at NCSM/NCFMR.
The Department of Family Medicine has
been one of the leading research programs in the United States for over two
decades. The free-standing and expanded research program will offer new opportunities
for trainees interested in research careers or in the application of research
findings in everyday clinical practice.
This will continue to be a major focus for our department.
In our new clinical homes—both at the new Brown Square Community
Health Center on the westside and the new Highland Family
Medicine in the heart of Rochester—we will continue
to provide quality care, using innovative practice techniques. Our aim is to have the department practice be a model for the ideal clinical practice
of the future.
Since the program's inception, over 380 residents have completed their training
with us. Over 99% of our graduates have passed the American Board of Family
Practice certifying exam. Our last alumni survey in May 2000 drew a 59%
response rate. The results show that upon graduating:
- 36% practiced in New York State
- 37% went to rural practice
- 53% went to an underserved area
- 67% practiced obstetrics
Satisfaction with training was very high. Graduates rated the following
areas as "good" or "excellent":
- Adult Medicine (93%)
- Pediatrics (97%)
- Obstetrics (96%)
- Psychosocial Medicine (98%)
More than 90% of graduates described the training in other areas as sufficient or better. Included: Gynecology, Adult Medicine, Obstetrics,
Office Practice, Pediatrics, and Psychosocial Medicine.
The following web pages provide an introduction to our history, function,
and overall orientation. Please use the list above to explore the highlights
of our world-renowned residency education program.
The Residency Review Committee (RRC) of the American Council for Graduate Medical Education recently reviewed our Family Medicine residency program. Our program is accredited for the
next five years, and there were no citations (reported March 2003).
The goal of our Fellowship Program is to collaborate with nationally and internationally renowned faculty mentors in developing educators, researchers, and future academic leaders in Family Medicine. Our fellows learn more about the biopsychosocial model and family-oriented, patient-centered health care. Course work includes evidence-based medicine, research methods, teaching and learning, family systems medicine, motivational approaches to behavior change, and reflective practice. Our fellows also participate in scholarly or research projects, give presentations at national meetings, and publish papers. The following Family Medicine fellowships are available after residency:
- Behavior Change
- NYS Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program
- Family Medicine Systems
- Patient-Centered Care
- Health Care Disparities Research
- Primary Care Family Psychology
- Family Medicine OB/GYN
P4 Initiative 
