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Family Medicine Residency Program

Established in 1976, Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center's Dr. Melvin B. Dyster Family Medicine Residency Program has graduated more than 100 resident physicians and plays a vital role in improving the quality of care in the Greater Niagara region.

For the past 20 years we have enjoyed a strong affiliation with the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. As the only residency program at Memorial, we don't compete with any other specialties.

Memorial Medical Center has given the program strong financial support since its inception and continues to be a consistent advocate for its resident physicians. Many of our graduates remain here after they graduate and continue to practice primary care in our community.

Located just blocks away from the world-famous cataracts of Niagara Falls, Memorial Medical Center is Niagara County's largest health network. A not-for-profit, inner-city acute care hospital with 305 patient beds, including a 120-bed extended care facility, Memorial also has the only inpatient behavioral health unit in Niagara County.

Our 12 Family Medicine residents cover hospital duties and have their own patient clientele at our family medicine centers -- Grand Island Family Medicine and the Hamilton B. Mizer Primary Care Center. Residents receive one-on-one training from a core faculty of family medicine practitioners as well as highly qualified Board Certified physicians in all specialties, including behavioral health.

Throughout their three-year program, residents receive comprehensive primary care training including procedures, scheduled conferences, didactic teaching, grand rounds and quality assurance meetings.

Niagara Falls is unique in that its inner city is in close proximity to rural communities. This enables us to provide our residents with clinical and community experiences at migrant farm camp sites during the summer as well as year-round experience at the Tuscarora Indian Reservation Health Center and the Niagara University Health Center. Residents also conduct school physicals at local middle schools and high schools.

Memorial residents have access to training at the medical center's new, state-of-the-art heart center, which performs diagnostic cardiac PET scans and non-surgical cardiac angiography using a 64-slice GE Lightspeed CT scanner.

Our hospital also operates the Diabetes & Endocrinology Center of Niagara, Western New York's only adult/pediatric center for the comprehensive management of diabetes and endocrine disorders; the Mary C. Dyster Pavilion, which is dedicated to women's health care; and a Spine and Sports Medicine Center that includes a recently expanded physical therapy facility.