Stony Brook Medicine SUNY Stony Brook Program at Mather Hospital Transitional Year Residency Program

Stony Brook Medicine SUNY Stony Brook Program at Mather Hospital Transitional Year Residency Program

A Message from the Director Thank you for your interest in the SUNY at Stony Brook sponsored Transitional Year Residency Program at Mather Hospital. John T. Mather Memorial Hospital has long upheld a culture of excellence since it opened its doors in 1929 as the first general hospital in the Town of Brookhaven. As Mather Hospital embraces changes in the healthcare demands of our community, you will be at the forefront of technology, leadership, innovation and growth. Joseph Ng, MD Director, Transitional Year Residency Program Mather Hospital offers 13 highly competitive PGY1 Transitional Year positions which will offer a well-rounded clinical experience. Aside from working closely with the Internal Medicine residents, Transitional Year residents will also have experiences in Radiology, Anesthesiology, Medical Informatics and Administrative Medicine. A personalized schedule will be created to prepare you for your specialty. You will finish your TY year with a strong knowledge base and clinical skills which will serve as a solid foundation for your future career. As a pioneer in the region, Mather Hospital offers innovative services and programs. For example, we have partnered with North Shore Hematology and Oncology Associates to provide CyberKnife therapy as one of only seven centers in New York State and only the third on Long Island. The hospital operates both 1.5 and 3.0 Tesla MRIs along with the only community hospital-based 320-slice CT scanner on Long Island. Mather was an early adopter of minimally invasive robotic surgery. We have carefully designed our program to be sensitive to the needs of our trainees outside of medicine. We recognize the need to address both fatigue and the lack of work/life balance, and have created a supportive environment that enables residents to grow, not only as leaders in healthcare, but as participants in society. We encourage all of our residents to balance priorities between responsibilities as a physician and responsibilities to friends and family. Once you embark on your journey, you will learn firsthand what it means to be a part of the community and family that is Mather Hospital. During your training you will find that Mather truly embodies its four pillars of core values; People, Service, Quality & Safety, and Innovation & Growth. You will see these values in the smiles of all those who walk the hallways and greet you with a good morning, the utmost respect that we give our patients and their families, and the new technologies and services that we offer our community. Being a preferred community hospital and garnering multiple awards including Overall Recommended Care by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, multiple A ratings from The Leapfrog Group, recognition as one of the best hospitals in the region by U.S. News & World Report and Magnet Status, Mather Hospital will provide you the foundation you need to become a strong, compassionate physician.

About John T. Mather Memorial Hospital A Culture of Excellence Since it opened its doors in 1929 as the first general hospital in the Town of Brookhaven, John T. Mather Memorial Hospital s legacy of excellence and innovation in healthcare has earned regional and national recognition. Some of the more recent recognitions are: Mather has received a top A Hospital Safety Score for six consecutive rating periods from The Leapfrog Group, a national, independent group that advocates for patient safety, quality and affordability in healthcare. Mather is one of only 204 hospitals in the nation and one of only two on Long Island to have achieved an A grade in all six score rating periods.. In 2014, U.S. News & World Report ranked Mather in the top 20 hospitals in New York State and among the leading hospitals in the country. The magazine analyzed nearly 5,000 hospitals nationwide and recognized those top hospitals, including Mather, that meet and exceed national standards in providing care. Mather has a reputation in the community for its caring nursing staff. In 2013, Mather was designated a Magnet Recognized hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, a prestigious recognition of quality, patient and staff satisfaction, and outcomes earned by only 401 hospitals worldwide. Mather ranks high in patient satisfaction, often exceeding the 90th percentile in Nursing, Emergency Care and Ambulatory Surgery. Mather Hospital s goal is to be the best community hospital in New York State. Our core values are founded on four pillars: People, Service, Quality & Safety, and Innovation & Growth. As such, we strive to provide an ethical and professional environment in which the educational curricular requirements can be fully achieved and assessed. At Mather, diversity of background and thought is both respected and encouraged, and is considered a valued resource for development of original ideas.

About our Program In order to prepare residents for entry into a subsequent program that requires a prerequisite clinical year, John T. Mather Memorial Hospital s Transitional Year Program has been designed to provide a wellbalanced program of graduate medical education in a variety of disciplines. The program may also provide clinical education for those medical school graduates who will serve in public health organizations, serve on active duty in the military as general medical officers or primary flight/undersea medicine physicians, or who desire to acquire at least one year of fundamental clinical education before entering administrative medicine or non-clinical research. Based at a thriving community hospital with an 85-year history on Long Island, the residency program offers a range of services to address a broad spectrum of patient illnesses, as well as all of the resources of its sponsor, Stony Brook Medicine, including the use of Stony Brook s state-of-the-art simulation center for code review, ACLS simulation, and palliative care counseling/review. Primary rotations include six months of fundamental clinical skills training distributed among the five following areas: Ambulatory Internal Medicine CCU General Medicine Medical/Surgical ICU Medical/Surgical Step Down Didactics The year-long noon core conference series takes place alongside the Internal Medicine residents and covers the breadth of Internal Medicine and related specialties. These lectures are presented locally by program faculty. Some specialized topics (such as transplant) may be presented by other experts live or via teleconference. PowerPoint presentations are posted online and some lectures are videotaped for later review by residents. In addition to the core conference series, a number of other conferences are held periodically at Mather. When residents are on their elective rotations, they will have the opportunity to participate in that specialty s didactic program conducted at the practice site. The core conference curriculum includes, but is not limited to, the following topics: Adolescent Medicine Geriatrics Pulmonary/Critical Care Ambulatory Medicine Gastroenterology Quality and Safety Cardiovascular Medicine Health Systems Radiology Endocrinology Hematology-Oncology Research Methodology Evidence-based Medicine Infectious Diseases Rheumatology Fatigue Mitigation Nephrology General Medicine Personal Finance and Financial Planning

Electives Residents have the opportunity to participate in two months of elective rotations during their training. Dr. Ng and each resident will work together to formulate a plan for his/her electives, based on the resident s future goals. The Mather Transitional Year also offers two four-week nonclinical electives, one in Medical Informatics and one in Quality & Leadership. The Medical Informatics elective is supervised by Dr. Ng who, in addition to his Program Director role, is also the Chief Medical Information Officer of Mather Hospital. The Quality & Leadership elective is supervised by Dr. Joan Faro, who is the Chief Medical Officer of Mather Hospital and a regional quality and safety leader, serving as a faculty of the Greater New York Hospital Association s Clinical Quality Fellowship Program. Elective options include the following areas: Anesthesia Endocrinology Gastroenterology Infectious Diseases Inpatient Cardiology Medical Informatics Nephrology Neurology Outpatient Cardiology Pulmonary Quality and Leadership Radiology Sleep Medicine Selectives Residents have the opportunity to participate in two months of selective rotations during their training. These selectives are rotations in medical subspecialties deemed to give first-year residents a solid foundation in clinical skills needed to be successful in their careers. These rotations are designed to provide trainees with experiences that they would otherwise not be able to have after they enter into their chosen specialty. Making these specialty and subspecialty rotations a selective guarantees that residents will have the varied experience that they need. Selective options include the following areas: Endocrinology Family Medicine Infectious Diseases Neurology Inpatient Cardiology Research While the program has no specific requirement of a scholarly project, those who are interested in pursuing a research project will be assisted by Dr. Alan Kaell, Mather Hospital s Director of Resident Scholarly Activity, with topic development, planning, IRB application and processing, data gathering, analysis and drafting. He will pair residents with appropriate research mentors and facilitate those relationships.

About our Faculty As a resident of Mather Hospital, you will have the distinction of working with, and being mentored by, a remarkable group of board-certified physicians. Our faculty includes nationally recognized clinicians and researchers, with vast levels of experience teaching and guiding students in their journey to becoming licensed physicians. Many of our faculty hold board certifications in multiple specialties, bringing a wellrounded knowledge to each rotation they supervise. Joseph Ng, MD, serves as the Program Director of the Transitional Year Residency Program. He has been teaching residents in Critical Care for more than five years at multiple hospitals in the greater New York City area. Along with his role in the Transitional Year program, he is the Medical Director of the Vascular Access Service and the Chief Medical Information Officer at Mather Hospital. Board certified in both Internal Medicine and Critical Care, Dr. Ng is also part of the team researching PICC insertions and is a primary investigator of a national three-part clinical research project involving patient satisfaction. All of our primary rotations, selectives and electives are supervised by board certified physicians who have oversight in their specific educational content area. Alan Kaell, MD serves as Mather Hospital s Director of Resident Scholarly Activity and Faculty Development. Board certified in Internal Medicine, Rheumatology and Geriatrics, Dr. Kaell has been an active investigator for more than 30 years, focusing on rheumatology and immunology, resulting in numerous published research articles and chapters. He has lectured on his findings internationally, has had privileges at four major hospitals in Suffolk County and has been a reviewer and editor of various national journals for more than 30 years. Dr. Kaell has conducted more than 20 Phase II, III and IV clinical trials for anti-rheumatic therapies and has been the recipient of NIH and Fetzer research grants.

Resident Quality of Life We have designed the Mather program to provide not only a satisfying professional experience, but a great personal quality of life. Resident rotations are carefully designed to avoid fatigue, and there is no night float or in-house on-call responsibility. Our program provides ample opportunity to balance work and play, and Port Jefferson s locale allows convenient access to everything exciting Long Island has to offer. Located approximately 60 miles east of New York City, Port Jefferson is a historical harbor village on the North Shore of Long Island. Originally a whaling port and shipbuilding community, the village was renamed in honor of President Thomas Jefferson in 1836. Today, the village is largely known for its arts and cultural events held year round, from the Charles Dickens Festival to the Village Cup Regatta. Located on the waterfront, Port Jefferson Village is home to restaurants, theater and shopping. The Long Island Railroad is conveniently located 10 minutes walking distance from the hospital and provides easy access to New York City. The Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company, offers hourly ferry service to Connecticut. From vineyards to amusement parks, world famous beaches to spectacular sporting events, outlet shopping to great restaurants, Long Island s many offerings are all just a short drive away. Mather Hospital has contracted with multiple rental management companies to reserve a limited number of subsidized, non-furnished studios, one- and two-bedroom apartments, many within walking distance to the hospital. We will also work with each resident on a case by case basis, as needed, to ensure that they have adequate housing to fulfill their residential needs. As residents of a State University of New York sponsored program, Mather/SUNY residents have access to a full complement of benefits, including vacation time, liability coverage, health insurance, dental coverage, conference stipends, sick leave, SUNY library access and on-campus activity discounts. They also have the opportunity to participate in both Mather and Stony Brook social activities exclusively for Housestaff, and serve as representatives on both Mather and Stony Brook councils.

How to Apply All applications will be accepted through ERAS and the NRMP. ERAS Accreditation ID: 9993500258 NRMP Program Code: 291999P0 Contact Information tyresidency@matherhospital.org (631) 686-2517 John T. Mather Memorial Hospital 75 North Country Road Port Jefferson, NY 11777 www.matherhospital.org/gme/transitionalyear Transitional Year Residency Program