When you choose the Independence Health System Latrobe Hospital Family
Medicine Residency, you are selecting a program with deep roots yet progressive
training. From our beginnings more than 45 years ago with a class of four,
to our present complement of 24 physicians, the Residency program continues
to offer the ideal learning environment from which to meet the demands
of today’s health care environment, while building the lasting relationships
that are the hallmark of a family medicine practice.
In our unopposed Residency, the eight residents per class benefit from
various clinical rotations and office-based practice, while supporting
the 24/7 coverage at Latrobe hospital and broadening their understanding
of the continuum of care.
Accredited by NCQA as a Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home for all of
our Residency practice sites, we serve as inspiration for the other physician
practices within the Excela Health Medical Group (a part of Independence
Health System) in how to transform a practice into team-based, patient
centered care, with an emphasis on proactive chronic disease management,
acute care access, and quality improvement. We utilize a mature and evolved
electronic health record with a patient communication portal to keep patients
engaged and informed. Our patients have good access to mental health services
by offering appointments with our faculty psychologist and telemedicine
visits with our psychiatrist. Residents actively participate in these
appointments, which occur in our family medicine offices, thus giving
our residents a very high level of behavioral health training.
To support the continued evolution of the Family Medicine Residency, located
at the Sandra S. Mellon Medical Education Suite at the Square at Latrobe,
two of our family medicine practice sites have moved to brand new facilities
at the Square at Latrobe in January 2018 and the Square at Frick Hospital
in February 2019. Within these new medical malls, our Residency practice
sites are surrounded by all of the services most needed for optimal patient
care in a single location. Here primary care physicians consult with specialists,
point patients to diagnostic testing onsite or direct them to rehabilitation
services, all under one roof.
We were founded as a direct response to the need to supply the families
in our community with well-trained family physicians. We continue to do
that and more. Our formula for success has always been the immersion of
great people, residents and faculty alike, into community practices. We
have residency practice sites in Latrobe, Mount Pleasant, and Saltsburg,
the latter two representing rural training sites. Residents are placed
into the same office for three years, co-managing their own panel of patients
with a faculty family physician, thus functioning as a junior partner
in a real family medicine practice.
We consider our residency to be pluripotent, as our graduates are trained
to do anything and go anywhere. In addition to the patient centered care
we offer in our family medicine offices, we continue to offer excellent
training in inpatient medicine, geriatrics, OB/GYN, and sports medicine.
Recent graduates have done fellowships (sports medicine, geriatrics, and
obstetrics), become hospitalists, gone into urgent care, and have seamlessly
and successfully entered into ambulatory practices.
With a welcoming family environment, a faculty with a combined 200+ years
of teaching experience, benefits such as housing across the street from
the hospital, a board pass rate near 100%, and a long track record of
preparing our graduates for the real world, we encourage you to make the
Independence Health System Latrobe Hospital Family Medicine Residency
your family.
Sincerely,
Mike Semelka, DO, FAAFP
Family Medicine Residency Program Director
Independence Health System is an equal opportunity employer. It is the
policy of Independence Health System to prohibit discrimination of any
type and to afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants,
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital
status, non-job related disability, veteran status, or genetic information,
or any other protected class. Independence Health System will conform
to the spirit as well as the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.
Latrobe Hospital and the Family Medicine Residency Program are the recipients
of the DeWitt C. Baldwin, Jr. Sponsoring Institution Award given by the
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and Arnold P. Gold
Foundation. Founded in 2016, this award is presented to accredited residency/fellowship
programs that are exemplary in fostering a respectful, supportive environment
for medical education and the delivery of patient care, which leads to
the personal and professional development of learners. The award focuses
on the importance of creating environments that completely elevate the
concept of humanism in medicine so that all health care professionals
are supported.
Independence Health System Latrobe Family Medicine Residency Program
Ready to Apply?
If you meet the entrance requirements, please submit your information through
Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). If you have further questions,
don’t hesitate to contact us at
1-800-723-2269.
