Northeastern Health System precocious received confirmation of astir $2 cardinal successful assistance backing from the Health Resources and Services Administration.
The funds volition beryllium dedicated to the continuing acquisition and grooming of the hospital's residency program.
"The extremity of the programme is to bid physicians who tin summation the aesculapian cognition they request present astatine NHS and past proceed to service those successful agrarian and underserved areas by applying the tenets of Osteopathic medicine for the prevention, diagnosis and attraction of illness, illness and injury," said Dr. Muneeza Afif, NHS Internal Medicine Residency Program director.
Accredited by the American College of Graduate Medical Education, NHS serves arsenic a teaching wellness halfway for superior attraction successful Internal Medicine Residency, wherein residents are offered a unsocial accidental to bid successful a supportive environment.
The HRSA assistance volition money astir 12 residency students during the world year, supporting astir fractional of the teaching wellness halfway budget.
Consistent with NHS's values of courtesy, accountability, respect, efficiency, and safety, the programme helps to nutrient graduates who are dedicated and compassionate assemblage leaders prepared to fulfill the wellness attraction needs to agrarian and underserved communities successful and astir Tahlequah.
In 2012, the Tahlequah Medical Group astatine NHS Internal Medicine Residency Program started with conscionable 3 residents. Today, the three-year programme instructs 17 aesculapian residents and is sponsored by the Osteopathic Medical Education Consortium of Oklahoma.
Afif, who is committee certified successful interior medicine, said portion grooming successful the NHS facility, residents are capable to person "hands-on" acquisition with the attending doc connected the infirmary work wards, exigency room, intensive attraction unit, arsenic good arsenic with specialty clinics, specified arsenic nephrology, neurology, cardiology, endocrinology, pulmonology, addiction, rheumatology, and respective more.
"This gives them entree to each areas of medicine that volition beryllium important successful their careers arsenic IM physicians aft completing the program," she said.
For much accusation connected the Internal Medicine Residency Program, email Program Coordinator Abby McCollum astatine abby@nhs-ok.org.
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