Why Choose Us – Top 10 Reasons

Choose Your Own Adventure!
Guided by experienced faculty members, residents navigate their training paths with confidence.  Utilizing our unique Paths of Focus model to create individualized learning plans, residents develop their skills on their journeys to become the well-rounded physicians that their patients deserve. 

Autonomy
In a team-based care model, YOU are responsible for your panel of patients, with support from providers and staff that comprise your team. This ensures reliable communication, continuity, and improved patient outcomes.

Practice Variety
Through your experiences in one of our two continuity office sites, your inpatient medicine rotations, and the time spent in Lifestyle Medicine and Community Medicine (and many more), you’ll have exposure to a variety of practice environments. This will allow you to build your vision of what most appeals to you for your future practice!

Culture – Family and Fun
At St. Luke’s, Family Medicine isn’t called Family merely to reflect the full- spectrum nature of our field. At our program, we create an atmosphere in which every member of the team, including our patients, feels the warmth of a family environment. We strive to care for each other, inside and outside of the clinical setting, because we recognize that success is built on a foundation of relationships.  We also recognize that residency can be fun, bringing smiles to patient encounters and education. 

Education
Spend 4 hours of protected academic time each week building the body of knowledge that will prepare you not only for your board examinations, but for a career of practice. Through small group learning, evidence-based journal clubs, procedural workshops and traditional didactics, you’ll fill your clinical toolbox to the brim! 

Osteopathic Education

At our program, osteopathic medicine is not just something to learn, it’s something our residents practice refine, and use to provide better care to patients.  Didactic, hands-on, and office-based experiences create the perfect recipe for integration into practice. 

Lifestyle Medicine
By keeping our patients healthier we will actively reduce future health care costs. Our residents will receive clinical training in Lifestyle Medicine that will prepare them to counsel patients regarding evidence-based lifestyle interventions for disease prevention and treatment. Upon graduation, our residents will have the opportunity to sit for Lifestyle Medicine Boards and become certified LM physicians.

The Lehigh Valley
A vibrant and thriving economic powerhouse, the Lehigh Valley is comprised of several metropolitan areas including Allentown, Easton, Bethlehem and Phillipsburg. Residents enjoy access to a wide variety of restaurants, shopping venues, cultural centers, minor league sporting venues, a wine trail and more. A low cost of living and beautiful outdoor offerings make the Lehigh Valley an ideal location.

Collaboration
Our Family Medicine residency at Anderson is one of several programs that have grown together on the campus, and opportunities for collaboration are incorporated into the DNA of each program. Whether it’s crossover lectures with the Psychiatry residency, collaborative research with the Neurology residency, or shared rotations with the Internal Medicine residency, you’ll learn a multidisciplinary approach to medicine and education.

Well-Being
Taking care of our resident’s well-being is equally as important as training them. St. Luke’s has a policy that monitors the wellness of our residents by teaching specific skills to promote resiliency, physician well-being and burnout prevention during training and beyond. Well-being is more than just a catchphrase in our residency, it’s a culture.