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| Excellence in Graduate Medical Education and Patient Care |
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Graduate Medical Education at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center is based on the premise that well-educated and well-trained residents become practicing physicians that provide high quality, responsive, and compassionate patient care. As the sole sponsor of 14 residency and fellowship programs in the specialties of addiction psychiatry; child and adolescent psychiatry; general dentistry; pediatric dentistry; family medicine; gastroenterology; internal medicine; obstetrics and gynecology; ophthalmology; pediatrics; psychiatry; pulmonary medicine; radiology; and surgery, Bronx-Lebanon annually trains more than 300 residents from culturally diverse backgrounds.
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An outstanding Bronx-Lebanon clinical faculty, most holding academic appointments at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, provide residents with competency-based education centered around the six core competencies of medical knowledge, patient care, practice-based learning, systems based practice,
professionalism, and interpersonal communication skills.
All programs, with the exception of the dental training program (which is American Dental Association approved), are fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.Bronx-Lebanon’s residents, in addition to being students, are also actively engaged in activities that promote patient safety and ensure quality care, including full compliance with the “National Safety Goals” promulgated by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), a major accrediting organization. |
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| Aimed at reducing medical errors and improving patient safety, the safety goals include a list of medical abbreviations that are prone to misinterpretation (and therefore, should not be used); timely completion of medical records; medication reconciliation; protocols
to prevent “wrong patient, wrong site, wrong procedure” surgery; and strict adherence to hand washing protocols that reduce the incidence of hospital-acquired infections. |
All of these goals require the collaborative efforts of medical, nursing, ancillary, and support
staff, and all are being achieved at Bronx-Lebanon. Dr. Milton A. Gumbs, Vice President, Medical Affairs/Medical Director, is the hospital’s designated official for Graduate Medical Education.
According to Dr. Gumbs, Bronx-Lebanon has a dual mission of service and graduate medical education.
“We offer the best environment possible for residents and fellows, and consistently provide them
with the tools they need to become excellent physicians. At Bronx- Lebanon, patient safety and quality medical education go hand in hand,” stated Dr. Gumbs. |
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