Medical Education
Westview Medical Education Program Overview:
- One-to-one instruction, hands-on training
- Discounted Westview Healthplex Sports Club membership
- Free meals
- Competitive employee benefits for family practice residents, interns and O.M.T. residents
- Approved travel expenses paid
- O.M.T. concentration available (large volume of O.M.T. boarded D.O.s in the Indianapolis Metropolitan Area)
- Community outreach volunteer projects
- Annual stipends
- Free Health Improvement Institute membership
- Two free lab coats per year
- Future Westview practice opportunities available
- Growing community offering premier sports, arts, shopping and other great entertainment options
- Indiana University Medical School affiliation
Family Practice Residency:
(Westview Medical Education program benefits included)
- Recapture your osteopathic background
- Direct patient care experience
- Home Call
- Individualize your Family Practice Residency program experience
- Moonlighting opportunities available
Podiatry Residency
View a PDF presentation of the Podiatric Surgery and Medicine Residency program.
The Podiatric Resident Training Program at Westview Hospital is fully approved by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education (CPME).
The emphasis of this program is on quality surgical skills based on sound diadactic backgroud. The medical education experience includes ongoing rotations at an osteopathic teaching institution, approved offsite surgical centers, a wound care clinic, a hospital-based foot clinic and office experiences.
Residents participate in foot screenings for the hospital, osteopathic morning report, tumor board, presentation of a lecture at the State Podiatry Society meeting and wound care clinic to name a few (additional clinics, lectures, etc).
Graduates of the Westview Hospital Podiatry Training Program are prepared for the Board Qualification examination by the American Board of Podiatric Surgery.
For more information on the Podiatry Training Program at Westview Hospital, please contact Darci Sieracki at (317) 920-7280 or email darci.sieracki@westviewhospital.org or Michael Baker, D.P.M. at bakerfoot@sbcglobal.net.
To submit an application for residency at Westview Hospital, click here.
Traditional Rotating Internships
At Westview Hospital, our intern program offers you advantages you won't find at a large institution. The opportunity to work one-on-one with our medical staff, access to a variety of challenging and complex medical cases and state-of-the-art medical services and specialties to help you build a solid foundation for your future as a Doctor of Osteopathy.
Opened in 1975, Westview is a 120-bed acute care, osteopathic hospital located on the west side of Indianapolis – the 12th largest city in the United States. In a wooded setting, Westview is easily accessed by Interstate 65, and just minutes from the heart of the city.
We are the center of osteopathic medicine and education for central Indiana. Our facilities include a fully-equipped, 24-hour emergency room, an intensive care unit and inpatient and outpatient surgery, radiology, laboratory, cardiopulmonary services, cancer care, podiatry and rehabilitative services, senior care unit, and the Healthplex Sports Club and Medical Pavilion.
Westview is committed to the principles of osteopathic medicine: proactive care and prevention. These are the fundamentals on which we base our delivery of personal, primary health care. We continue to work with our physicians to expand primary care access and ensure quality care.
As an intern at Westview, you are a part of the prestigious medical community of Indianapolis. A network that includes eight nationally acclaimed hospitals, medical research facilities, technology and manufacturing corporations, and one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical firms, Eli Lilly and Company.
Westview is just ten minutes from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, (IUPUI), a 27,500-student campus which includes the renowned Indiana University Medical Center and the I.U. School of Nursing, the largest nursing school in the United States. Purdue University, a world leader in biomedical technology, is just an hour’s drive.
We place a high priority on personal attention to our interns, as well as our patients. We’ll provide you with an excellent interdisciplinary education that includes advanced diagnostic and treatment methods.
One of the unique features of our participatory management is a mentoring program to support interns. The program is directed by the Postgraduate Training Committee and provides interns with not only a quality education, but also with a well-rounded medical perspective. Another unique benefit is the scheduled "block nights", which allows you to plan and take advantage of designated private time.
As a Westview intern, you receive: stipends, moving expenses, meals, malpractice insurance, health insurance, lab coats, in-service lectures, seminars and an ACLS course.
Join the Westview winning team. Fax the application, email us or call our Medical Staff Office directly at 317-920-7280.
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Externships
At Westview Hospital, our extern program offers you advantages you won’t find at a large institution. The opportunity to work one-on-one with our medical staff, access to a variety of challenging and complex medical cases and state-of-the-art medical services and specialties to help you build a solid foundation for your future as a Doctor of Osteopathy.
Opened in 1975, Westview is a 120-bed acute care, osteopathic hospital located on the west side of Indianapolis – the 12th largest city in the United States. In a wooded setting, Westview is easily accessed by Interstate 65, and just minutes from the heart of the city.
We are the center of osteopathic medicine and education for central Indiana. Our facilities include a fully-equipped, 24-hour emergency room, an intensive care unit and inpatient and outpatient surgery, radiology, laboratory, cardiopulmonary services, cancer care, podiatry and rehabilitative services, senior care unit, and the Westview Healthplex Sports Club.
Westview is committed to the principles of osteopathic medicine: proactive care and prevention. These are the fundamentals on which we base our delivery of personal, primary health care. We continue to work with our physicians to expand primary care access and ensure quality care.
Westview is just ten minutes from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, (IUPUI), a 27,500-student campus which includes the renowned Indiana University Medical Center and the I.U. School of Nursing, the largest nursing school in the United States. Purdue University, a world leader in biomedical technology, is just an hour's drive.
Rotations include: Anesthesia, Emergency Medicine, Family Practice, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, OMT, Proctology, Radiology, and Urology.
As a Westview extern, you receive: accommodations, meals, travel expenses, lectures and educational training from board-certified physicians.
Join the Westview winning team. Fax the application, email us or call our Medical Staff Office directly at 317-920-7280.
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