Nileena Johnkutty, DO, receives the long coat of a physician from Nicole Maguire, DO, Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program, at CMC’s inaugural long coat ceremony for its first group of Graduate Medical Education residents.
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MILESTONE THE ARRIVAL OF RESIDENTS LAUNCHES CMC’S ACADEMIC MEDICINE PROGRAM.
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ommunity Medical Center (CMC) has marked another milestone in its 60-year history. In July, the hospital completed a process of becoming an academic medical center by welcoming its first residents—12 in Internal Medicine, 12 in Emergency Medicine and three in Podiatry. Residents are physicians who have graduated from medical school with an education in all types of medicine and are now developing more Healthy Together
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specialized knowledge and experience in specific disciplines. “We’ve always been a community hospital, and we’re now making a transition to also being an academic institution that is contributing to the future of healthcare,” says Meika Neblett, MD, MS, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Academic Officer at CMC. “It adds a lot of energy and excitement to the culture of a facility—the ways we communicate, think, study, act and deal
with patients—when we know that all our actions are leading toward making great doctors for the next generation.” Next summer, CMC will introduce its Surgery residency program, bringing more trainees to the hospital. Residents spend three to five years completing their rotations, depending on specialty. “When we have a full complement in all of our programs, we’ll be training a total of 117 residents,” Dr. Neblett says.
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