St. Joseph’s Medical Center Residents Graduate and Stay to Practice Humankindness The Central Valley has a fresh infusion of physicians specializing in humankindness. St. Joseph’s Medical Center recently graduated its first class of 14 physician residents from its Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine residency programs. “We are so proud of these graduates. Not only were they our inaugural class of residents, but they have successfully completed their training during the height of a global pandemic,” said Donald J. Wiley, President and CEO of St. Joseph’s. “We are especially thankful for those who have decided to stay on and work in our community.”
The program began in 2018 as an effort to both train and retain physicians in San Joaquin County, an area facing a critical shortage of physicians. Program administrators aim to select residents with local ties whenever possible, having either attended medical school in California or lived here. “Graduate Medical Education has enabled us to recruit great physicians to serve as faculty, train great new physicians and keep them in our area, as well as shift the culture at our facility with an infusion of learners, challenging
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