Meet Our GME Residents
Kaweah Health welcomed about 50 new resident doctors during an event at ImagineU Children’s Museum on Monday, June 30. The doctors and their families were among the first to experience Kaweah Health’s new mini hospital exhibit at the museum, featuring a child-sized doctor’s office, X-rays, and operating table.
The new doctors are beginning their residencies in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family medicine, psychiatry, surgery, and transitional year as part of Kaweah Health’s Graduate Medical Education program. This is the training phase that comes after medical school, where newly graduated doctors, called residents, work in hospitals under supervision to gain hands-on experience in their chosen specialty.
“We are so excited to welcome these new resident doctors into our community,” Kaweah Health CEO Gary Herbst said. “We hope they fall in love with Visalia and our hospital and want to stay after they complete their three- or four-year programs.”
The Graduate Medical Education program began at Kaweah Health in 2013 and since then about 40 percent of graduates have decided to stay in the community.
New family medicine resident Sydney Brown, MD, of Tulare, said she is excited to start putting all her medical school training to work.
“The first month is going to be all about learning my way around the hospital and the excitement after all these years of schooling to get to be a doctor instead of just play doctor,” Dr. Brown said.
