About Our Program

Overlook Family Medicine:

• Accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
  
  
• Offers a new, fully-approved Sports Medicine Fellowship for osteopathic residents.
  
  
• Employs a full-time behavioral science director for resident training and support, as well as a full-time social worker for our patients.
  
  
• Provides funding for residents who elect to do international medicine rotations in underserved areas.
  
  
• Features special expertise in hospice, palliative care and bioethics. One of our faculty attendings is board-certified in palliative medicine and is Atlantic Health Hospice’s medical director; our behavioral science director is an Overlook Hospital Palliative Care Program and Bioethics consultant; and our geriatrics director is a long-time member of the hospital’s Bioethics Committee.
  
  
• Provides strong geriatrics training: one of our faculty attendings is board-certified in geriatrics, as well as in family medicine and is medical director of nearby Berkeley Heights Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
  
  
• Is a multi-disciplinary practice: our physicians practice side-by-side with two adult nurse practitioners, a social worker and a nutritionist.
  
  
• Supports an active hands-on experience for residents: you will develop your own practice and patient relationships by maintaining responsibility for your patient's care in the office, during hospitalization, at home or in the nursing home.
  
  
• Offers core training in family medicine, behavioral science, geriatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and office-based procedures.
  
  
• Provides surgical experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings under the supervision of attending surgeons and senior surgical residents. PGY-Is work in the main operating room, Outpatient Same-Day Surgery Department and the private offices of surgical attending staff physicians.
  
  
• Participates in the community: providing health screenings at our office and off-site; presentations and special programs to community groups and schools; school-based medical services; occupational medicine services through contracts with local police and fire departments; and medical care to our non-ambulatory, geriatric and hospice patients in their homes and in nursing homes.
  
  
• Trains residents for real world private practice, not only to provide care, but to manage a practice: we offer intensive education in practice management, including training in coding and billing, managed care and capitation, risk management, staff relations and performance improvement.
  
  
• Manages an evidence-based practice, providing residents with computer and library support, and building evidence-awareness into every level of our patient care.
  
  
• Operates at two high-volume training sites: Overlook Family Practice, located in the hospital's Medical Arts Center, is a 6,000 square foot office with 10 examination rooms. Chatham Family Practice is three miles from the hospital and has eight exam rooms. Together the two offices operate as a single private group practice model, with the faculty and residents practicing as partners.
  
  
• Values resident autonomy: our PGY-IIs and PGY-IIIs function as team leaders and decision-makers for their patients, and relate to faculty as colleagues.
  
  
• Ensures quality: every PGY-I patient encounter is precepted, every resident (all three years) chart note is read.
  
  
• Supports our residents: they are treated with kindness and respect, as adult learners and practitioners. We also recognize and emphasize the support residents can provide to each other, especially within each class. And we have regularly scheduled practice gatherings and events throughout the year, for staff, as well as residents and faculty.