Match Day Madness: Providence Residency Program Lands Seven New Residents
Press release from Providence:
The Providence St. Joseph Hospital of Eureka Family Medicine Residency Program, a collaboration between Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka and Open Door Community Health Centers, is excited to share it “matched” all seven of its physician training positions to applicants seeking residency in the Eureka program.
- Photos are from the virtual resident welcome ceremony that included current residents and physician staff of the Residency Program.
- Photos are from the virtual resident welcome ceremony that included current residents and physician staff of the Residency Program.
Match Day was March 15 this year and marked the day graduating medical students from across the globe find out where they will begin their medical careers in the United States. It’s a culmination of extensive interviews for both applicants and residency programs. The residency program had more than 500 physicians apply to the program, now in its fifth year.
“As someone who personally experienced going through the Match process for residency, I can relate to the emotions our new residents are feeling today,” said May Hong, M.D., DIO of the St. Joseph Hospital Eureka Graduate Medical Education Department. “We are thrilled at the response we’ve continue to receive and feel confident that it’s indicative of the high-quality of our program, providers and partners responsible for educating the next generation of primary care providers.”
The program has been a successful training and recruitment model for the medical community as core faculty from Open Door Community Health Centers, specialist physicians from Providence Medical Group, select independent physicians affiliated with St. Joseph Hospital Eureka and hospital leadership, collaborate to educate the new physicians. To date, seven of the residency program graduates have remained in California, four of which are now practicing in Humboldt County.
“This program is not only a critical way to build the ranks of our local physician population, but an opportunity to leverage the exceptional professional experience of local physicians and teach
the next generation of physician leaders in Humboldt County,” added Simon Stampe, M.D., Program Director. “We are overjoyed at the success of this program and thank all those in our community who have supported it.”
This year marked the first year that seven positions were available to incoming physicians. Historically, the three-year training program provided six training positions, but due to high demand, the cohort was expanded to seven. The program welcomes Arshia Akbar, M.D., Shrawan Khadka, M.D., In Sook Kim, M.D., Amanda Munkres McDonald, D.O., Hyun Soo Park, M.D., Yener Tuz, M.D., and Sojin Yang, M.D.
For more information on the residency program, visit https://gme.providence.org/northern-california/family-medicine-residency-program/.
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Fantastic. Let’s hope they stick around.
If ‘normal’ winters (like this one) continue… they will be headed out of the area pretty quickly.
They’ll be out of here as soon as their residency contract is up.
Not one is likely to be here in three years. The better physicians they are, the less likely they are to stay. But residencies are in short supply too. Too many will take up positions here as their only option. While overall stats may indicate they may stay where they are trained, it is unlikely with Humboldt County’s heavy burden of MediCal and Medicare. Just moving to a place with significantly higher proportion of employer insurance people will likely double their income than they make from Medicare and more than double it from MedCal.
Ignoring the unpleasant level of drug addiction local doctors have to contend with here along with the level of complaining so many locals do, it would be a surprise if any of them stay. This is the unfortunate state of Humboldt Co. Hoping is fine but paying better is more important. In fact, the only real benefit likely with those touted Medicare for All plans is at least the financial playing field would be a little more level. But not by much because all government plans cap physician reimbursement in a way that volume matters. And there too Humboldt loses- every population center can better produce more income with far less work. Not to mention government regulations mean Humboldt County has to pay out the same but with less money to do it.
I hate being so negative about this but government insurance is stacked against us in just about every way. Providence will likely retain the occasional resident they train but it won’t be here. Whether Open Door, with their old fashion ideas about community service, can I don’t know but would still be a surprise. This is the sort of result crappy legislation provides. And all the noise from Progessives and the current Administration seems to be a doubling down of those faults. The road to hell is paved with their same idea of forcing compliance by law but not understanding what they do.
“Private insurers paid nearly double Medicare rates for all hospital services (199% of Medicare rates, on average), ranging from 141% to 259% of Medicare rates across the reviewed studies.”
https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/how-much-more-than-medicare-do-private-insurers-pay-a-review-of-the-literature/
You appear to believe that high rates of drug addicted people is somehow limited to Humboldt.
Of course not. That would be a silly thing to say which is why you’re putting those words in my mouth having nothing real to offer. But drug addiction at a street level by people trying to get doctors to feed their addiction because they can’t pay for them are clearly more likely there than, let’s say, Orange or San Diego County. You can look at the stats yourself.
https://skylab.cdph.ca.gov/ODdash/?tab=CT
Sad but true…
I agree with you 100%. We seem to lose a fairly large number of people involved in our local hospitals and clinics. I guess our area is just not exciting enough for doctors, nurses and other medical folks from the larger cities.
It doesn’t help that the hospital has made a name for itself as being a horrible employer? I’ve had travellers tell me they were warned but should have listened. I’ve seen MDs leave out of complete disrespect. It’s bad enough the pay doesn’t keep up with the area but then we have gone and shown nursing we don’t care if they come here, let alone stay.
I agree with your comment 100%.
Spot on.
It pays more to leave.
Damn, that’s the truth…
hope they will be obligated to a 10 year term.
They Docs are just looking for work and not seasoned yet. They only know what the big pharma tells them.
Your lack of knowledge about medical school is showing.
Not sure what you’re talking about. I’ve noticed these young MDs like to order the most up and coming meds. They don’t tend to order tried and true treatments. What they don’t realize is when they discharge these patients, they can’t afford their meds. This is why Mr. Clark said that they only know what big pharma tells them.
I’m afraid I don’t speak Korean or Arabic…
Is this the best we have?
Xenophobia is a curable condition. It does require opening of the mind.
You’re welcome to submit an application to med school if you think you can do better.
I would not want to be a Doctor, for any reason…
There is a cause for the fact that many new Physicians are Foreign born, but the care they administer is directed by insurance companies and crooked corporations like Providence and Adventist, Sutter and HCA…
Medicine isn’t the same thing as my parent’s doctors dispensed, and a huge amount of money is wasted on unnecessary services given to people who are merely seeking drugs…
No way I would be a Doctor.
Medical School on St George is trying to recruit, but examine the credentials of new physicians carefully, since many of them went to Med School in Cairo or Dubai, the Philippines or China, or Darfur…
The average Coder in SF makes more money, and can work from home, while high…
But you do speak a$$hole.
Well, that’s just rude…
Keep monitoring. Pay attention you might learn something.
Here is what I have learned:
Providence is not a good quality employer.
Most MD’s who make the mistake of working in Humboldt, are getting their College Loans paid off for hanging around for a few years…
Kimaw is better than St Joe’s, and Redwood is slated to be closed anyway…
I spent 40+ years learning that the biggest corporation is not the best at care, and UC Med Center in Sacramento is where I would go, if unable to get to UCSF…
Providence is great for CEO’s and C-Suite types, but not so good for all other employees…
Any feedback on their change of lab services went?
Local services are the same… patient goes in and a phlebotomist draws the sample,
but (most) the blood is sent ‘out of the area’ for testing.
Adds a few days to the tests.
Looks like Lab Corp is now doing all Lab Testing at Providence…
Most Administrators don’t know a damn thing about the Lab, but it has been a “less than profitable” department for years, compared to Radiology or Pharmacy…
In some hospitals, the Clinical Lab Scientist has become the highest paid employee, and in remote locations like Garberville and Cedarville, guys can make over $200,000/year for hanging out and taking call…
Supplying and staffing a laboratory is fucking expensive, and a hospital like Redwood or St Joes, the lab is a shithole, cramped, old, and chronically understaffed, so nobody really wants to work there at all…
Even Lab Corp will have to supply critically needed tests onsite, but I am retired now, so don’t ask me to help you out…
Lab Corp is not the leader in the Lab Industry, but Quest abandoned the rural parts of Northern CA, since contract courier services have them all over a barrel… Quest is better, and Lab Corp is a poor second place, but the cost will still be high.
And also, at Adventist Health, the specimens from Paradise are couriered to Clear Lake for Chemistry, and to Willits for Micro… This firmly proves that the few Lab Pros left in these locations will be worked into a coma, before they quit…
Laboratory is a quandry, but I can solve your little problems, and only charge you $300/hour plus meals, transpo and Hotels…
Contracting it out merely removes administrative responsibility while decreasing Patient Safety and giving the appearance of cost-effectiveness…
Companies like Lab Corp make no money, on paper, because they lose money on every patient, so they make it up in volume…
Contracting is a good way to make the bottom line look better, while cutting staff, so the C-Suite looks prettier while the $100,000/month Administrator gets a new house…