What Are Your Goals?

Martin I. Seltman, MD Residency Director Forbes Family Practice Residency Program

At West Penn - Forbes Regional Campus, we affirm that the patient is a whole person whose unique physical and psychological makeup presents an equally unique set of needs. Our aim is to foster your evolution into a family medicine specialist who treats the whole patient with expertise and sensitivity.

The Forbes Family Practice Residency Program provides an optimal educational environment in which you can develop your potential as an individual, physician, teacher, and learner. To this end, we provide a realistic practice setting, a personalized curriculum, family physician mentors, and a host of related educational resources and personnel.

Within this training network you will learn to offer continuing, comprehensive health care to patients and their families that is both therapeutic and preventive. Your understanding and skills as a physician will be cultivated through ongoing relationships with patients and colleagues in your office at Forbes Family Health Center and at West Penn - Forbes Regional Campus Hospital, the program's parent hospital. You will also spend some time at Forbes Hospice.

The residency program will develop your ability to coordinate hospital and community resources to provide comprehensive, personalized care to patients in a wide variety of practice settings.

When you complete Forbes Family Practice Residency Program, we believe that you will be able to competently manage most of your patients independently, yet know the appropriate times and methods for consults and referrals to other specialists. in either event, it will be you, the family medicine specialist, who will confidently initiate, coordinate and manage each patient's care to produce the best possible outcome.