New residents at Providence announced
The Providence St. Joseph Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program, a collaboration between Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka and Open Door Community Health Centers, announced this week it “matched” all seven of its physician training positions to applicants seeking residency in the Eureka program.
The announcement is a culmination of extensive interviews for both applicants and residency programs. The residency program had more than 500 physicians apply to the program, now in its fifth year.
“As someone who personally experienced going through the Match process for residency, I can relate to the emotions our new residents are feeling today,” said May Hong, M.D., DIO of the St. Joseph Hospital Eureka Graduate Medical Education Department. “We are thrilled at the response we've continued to receive and feel confident that it's indicative of the high-quality of our program, providers and partners responsible for educating the next generation of primary care providers.”
The program has seen success in training and recruiting for the medical community as core faculty from Open Door Community Health Centers, specialist physicians from Providence Medical Group, select independent physicians affiliated with St. Joseph Hospital Eureka and hospital leadership, collaborate to educate the new physicians. To date, seven of the residency program graduates remained in California, four of whom are now practicing in Humboldt County.
“This program is not only a critical way to build the ranks of our local physician population, but an opportunity to leverage the exceptional professional experience of local physicians and teach the next generation of physician leaders in Humboldt County,” added Simon Stampe, M.D. “We are overjoyed at the success of this program and thank all those in our community who have supported it.” This year marked the first year that seven positions were available to incoming physicians. Historically, the three-year training program provided six training positions, but because of high demand, the cohort expanded to seven. The program welcomes Arshia Akbar, M.D., Shrawan Khadka, M.D., In Sook Kim, M.D., Amanda Munkres McDonald, D.O., Hyun Soo Park, M.D., Yener Tuz, M.D., and Sojin Yang, M.D.