Graduate Medical Education

Westview Hospital, a facility of Westview Medical Campus, excels in operating Indiana’s only osteopathic postgraduate training program. Training at Westview Hospital provides you with one-on-one instruction, hands-on training, clinical supervision, didactic lectures and clinical skill through bedside teaching, formal lectures and seminars, and graded patient care responsibility. The medical education department’s primary goal is to support the osteopathic postdoctoral and podiatry programs, and rotating medical students. Westview Hospital osteopathic postdoctoral programs are accredited by the American Osteopathic Association, and the podiatry residency program is accredited by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education.

Our osteopathic medical education program is approved for three positions in the traditional rotating internship and nine positions in the family practice residency. The podiatry medicine and surgery-36 month program (PM&S-36) is approved for three positions.

For additional resources (links to osteopathic and podiatric colleges):

http://www.do-online.org/index.cfm?au=D&PageId=edu_main&SubPageId=sir_college

http://www.aacpm.org/html/collegelinks/cl_schools.asp

Luke G. Nelligan, D.O.

Director of Medical Education

Dr. Nelligan graduated from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and he completed his residency in family practice at Graduate City Avenue Hospital in Philadelphia. He has served on numerous committees for the Indiana Osteopathic Association (IOA) and was president from 1999 to 2000. Currently, he serves as chair of the IOA’s legislative committee and ad-hoc osteopathic medical school taskforce, as well as IOA’s treasurer. In 2001, Dr. Nelligan received the J.B. Kinsinger Plaque - IOA’s highest award for outstanding service to the osteopathic profession and the community. Currently, Dr. Nelligan serves as vice chief of staff and director of medical education for Westview Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana. He also has a practice for family medicine, located in the community of Zionsville, Indiana. Dr. Nelligan is married to wife Carroll, and they have one son, Declan.

For more information on the medical education program at Westview Hospital, please contact Darci Sieracki at (317) 920-7280 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .