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Hamilton Health Care System holds white coat ceremony

- From Hamilton Health Care System

Hamilton Health Care System is early on in the second year of its Residency Program.

Thirteen physicians have started their internal medicine residency, and six have started a family medicine residency.

HHCS recently hosted its second White Coat Ceremony, a rite of passage for resident physicians to emphasize the importance of compassion­ate patient care at the very start of training.

“It’s great to be starting our second year of our residency program,” said Daniel Grace, MD, director of the internal medicine residency program. “We have another great group of doctors.”

Internal medicine residents include: Oluronke Alafe, MD; Stefan Canacevic, MD; Wesley Durgin, MD; Alexander Listur, MD; Harshvir Masson, MD; Meaghan McCarthy, MD; Rasha Nasri, MD; Ogechi Nwankwo, MD; Ektaben

Patel, MD; Anjali Raj, MD; Juan Salvatierr­a, MD; Sarbjit Singh, DO; and Camden Winzenburg, DO.

These residents have rotations throughout the hospital and Hamilton’s Internal Medicine Clinic, near the hospital. Family medicine residents include: Japjot Grewal, MD; Urooj Jaferi, MD; Kimberly Leung, MD; Talal Roshan, MD; Eva Varoqua, MD; and Claire-Louise Young, MD. These residents have rotations throughout Hamilton Health Care System and at Hamilton Physician Group – Murray Campus in Chatsworth.

Hamilton’s initial institutio­nal accreditat­ion was obtained from the Accreditat­ion Council of Graduate Medical Education in July 2018. The Internal Medicine Program received ACGME accreditat­ion in April 2019.

Hamilton’s medical school partnershi­ps include Medical College of Georgia/Augusta University, Philadelph­ia College of Osteopathi­c Medicine and various other medical schools.

The focus for Hamilton’s resident training is on providing unsurpasse­d service, with an emphasis on safety and quality outcomes. Residents have opportunit­ies to care for patients of diverse cultural and socioecono­mic background­s with an emphasis on caring for those who are medically underserve­d.

Hamilton’s training program features a learning environmen­t that fosters leadership, ingenuity and creative solutions to complex health problems.

Residency program administra­tors and staff include Daniel Grace, MD, internal medicine program director, Nimrat Bains, MD, internal medicine associate program director; Bryan Cheever, MD, family medicine program director; Jonathan Thompson, MD, family medicine associate program director; Taylor Wilkey, Graduate Medical Education coordinato­r; Rebecca Goss, residency coordinato­r; and Sarah Russell, medical education librarian/specialist.

 ?? Hamilton Medical Center ?? New internal and family medicine residents for Hamilton Medical Center take part in a recent white coat ceremony.
Hamilton Medical Center New internal and family medicine residents for Hamilton Medical Center take part in a recent white coat ceremony.

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