The Newest Class of Continuing Excellence
Carilion Clinic Welcomes 2010 Class of Residents and Fellows
This month, Carilion Clinic welcomes its newest class of residents and fellows. The class of 70 physicians features 62 residents spread among seven residency programs and eight fellows within four fellowship programs.
Carilion Clinic welcomes 70 new physician residents and fellows in 2010.
Residencies and fellowships allow medical school graduates to get specialized training in various areas of medicine. At Carilion Clinic, the Graduate Medical Education (GME) program has been preparing residents and fellows to provide excellent care for decades. In fact, an estimated 80 percent of the doctors in Southwest Virginia have participated in Carilion educational programs.
The New Class
The 2010 class is a very diverse group of physicians. Members of the class hail from seven countries, 24 U.S. states and more than 40 medical schools, including Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia, Mayo Medical School and Vanderbilt University.
In terms of speciality, the class breaks down as follows:
Residencies:
- Family Medicine: 10
- Internal Medicine: 20
- OB/GYN: 3
- Neurosurgery: 1
- Psychiatry: 8
- General Surgery: 8
- Transitional Year: 12
Fellowships:
- Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: 2
- Geriatric Medicine: 1
- Infectious Disease: 2
- Pulmonary Medicine: 3
- Geriatric Psychiatry: 0
- Addiction Psychiatry: 0
Growth in Numbers
The large number of students in the 2010 class demonstrates the substantial growth the Carilion Clinic GME program has seen over the past few years. In fact, since 2008 the number of fellowships offered has tripled, growing from two to six.
Carilion Clinic has become a destination for physicians to hone their skills after completing medical school.
"I chose to come here because I heard so many amazing things about the program," said Amanda Beer, graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and newcomer to the Transitional Year Residency. "In talking to other people who have done residencies here, I heard good things about the hospital and the area. I hope to become more confident as a doctor and better my skills as a physician while I'm here."
Several requests for additional fellowships are under internal review and two new residency programs are currently in the process of being either approved or internally evaluated.
Continued growth of the GME program and the opening of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine will assuredly bring even more diversely-skilled physicians to Carilion Clinic, making this is an exciting time for medical education in the region.
The 2010 class of residents and fellows at Carilion Clinic.
