Post by Logan on Jul 5, 2016 1:19:40 GMT -6
MOULTRIE — More than 20 years after the formation of Southwest Georgia Family Medicine Residency, now Phoebe Family Medicine Residency, in Albany, an option exists in Moultrie for budding physicians seeking residency slots.
The inaugural class of the Georgia South Family Medicine Residency program based at Colquitt Regional Medical Center began training on Friday through a rural track program in which the class of three doctors will be spending the better part of their first year at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital working in specialties the Albany hospital has higher volume in – such as pediatrics and neonatal — before spending the remainder of their three years in the Moultrie area.
For the first year of their residency, the young doctors will carry the title of “intern.”
“(This arrangement is in place) so our interns can finish the core things we don’t have before we send them back (to Moultrie),” said Program Director Dr. Kirby Smith.
Read more: www.albanyherald.com/news/local/medical-education-expanding-in-southwest-georgia/article_c05f39fd-100b-5a1a-b8ca-27d9f35d938b.html
The inaugural class of the Georgia South Family Medicine Residency program based at Colquitt Regional Medical Center began training on Friday through a rural track program in which the class of three doctors will be spending the better part of their first year at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital working in specialties the Albany hospital has higher volume in – such as pediatrics and neonatal — before spending the remainder of their three years in the Moultrie area.
For the first year of their residency, the young doctors will carry the title of “intern.”
“(This arrangement is in place) so our interns can finish the core things we don’t have before we send them back (to Moultrie),” said Program Director Dr. Kirby Smith.
Read more: www.albanyherald.com/news/local/medical-education-expanding-in-southwest-georgia/article_c05f39fd-100b-5a1a-b8ca-27d9f35d938b.html