Transcript
Interview #1
Christy Seed, DO
Graduate of University of New England Osteopathic
I chose this program because I wanted to have wide-spectrum Family Practice. I have a commitment to the government to work in an underserved area of the country after I finish Residency. So I wanted to get out there and really know that I knew my stuff beforehand and to know a lot of different procedures. To know how to do a C-section. To know how to do an appendectomy in case those kinds of circumstances showed up in my life. So this program is one of the few in the country that offers as wide a spectrum of Family Practice as this one does.
Interview #2
Pramita Kuruvilla, MD
Graduate of Yale University School of Medicine
So the Registrar System is a system that is absolutely fabulous. It's derived from the British Healthcare System. Basically it means that you work one-on-one with an attending who is working only with you on your patients. So instead of a traditional team approach that you see often in university systems, the system here is that you work one-on-one with attendings and you don't work with other residents. So you are the primary care giver for your patients. Which is totally the reverse of what you see in university settings. It gives you a lot more independence, a lot more autonomy, and I think ultimately a lot more confidence in being able to take care of patients.
Interview #3
Jeremy Fish, MD
Director - CCRMC Family Medicine Residency Program
Graduate of CCRMC Family Medicine Residency Program
There's several kinds of medical students that do particularly well here. I think one of the major groups are groups who have a particular interest in working in Remote Care, Rural Care, and International Health. I would say particularly International Health because the broad-spectrum of training allows then to really function at a high level in areas with extreme need and poverty.
The other groups that do really well are people who really have kind of an experiential style. They learn through doing things. They're into hands-on training. They want to get full-spectrum training, procedural training, get in the thick of patient care and responsibility. Those students succeed very well here and I think really get a lot out of the program.
The third group are folks who really are interested in doing some academic kind of teaching. They really are looking at learning to become teachers or leaders of Family Medicine. I think because of our unique Registrar structure and teaching structure here they really get to see teaching from Family Physicians in a prominent role in the hospital and clinics.
Interview #4
Marisha Chilcott, MD
Graduate of UC Davis School of Medicicne
I really wanted to do full-spectrum Family Practice and I came here as a medical student and my very first day they let me do a whole surgical procedure by myself with this Attending standing behind me. That's why I chose this program.
Interview #5
Theresa Madrigal, MD
East County Department Chairperson
Graduate of CCRMC Family Medicine Residency Program
You're never alone here. It's somebody who likes to do a lot of stuff and have a lot of responsibility, but you're never alone. There's always someone to ask. There's always someone by your side everyday. You get to do a lot.
Interview #6
Maura O'Leary, MD
Graduate of Oregon Health Sciences
Here your only limits are what you place on yourself. Not the expectations of other people. I feel like, because I came here, I am independent. I feel confident about what I can do for other people and I feel I wouldn't have learned that somewhere else.
Interview #7
Anthony Jones, MD
Family Practice & Internal Medicine
Graduate of CCRMC Family Medicine Residency Program
Faculty Leadership Group
Things that kept me here on staff are pretty much the same factors that brought me here during Residency Training Program. The general atmosphere of the system in which we work. People are very dedicated, very collegial, and really sincere with the work that they do. It's that feeling and that spirit that really kept me here. When I came as a Resident to train, I grew into that and I really became a part of that movement. So it's really one of the forces that kept me here.
Interview #8
Diana Mahar, MD
Staff Pediatrician
Faculty Leadership Group
One thing that does seem different and good here is that the Residents are, I think, are really taken very seriously by the administration of the Residency Program. When the Residents come with a problem, a question, something they want to change they're never brushed off. A committee is formed. There's a lot of discussion back and forth. There may be competing interest or different needs, but I don't think they're ever ignored. I think in a lot of programs there may be kind of lip service to the Resident interest, but I think here the program changes and turns based on Resident interest. I think people can come here knowing full well that if they're interested in change or developing new programs, or have opinions that those will be listened to and paid a lot of attention to.
Interview #9
Nancy Palmer, MD
Graduate of UC San Francisco School of Medicine
One of the things that's really great about this program is the involvement that the Residents have in making changes to the curriculum. So this unique opportunity was brought to the Residents and we were supposed to come up with a proposal based on what we thought were the short-comings in our curriculum and what we thought would address those short-comings. We came up with a proposal that we were anticipating there would be a lot of back and forth with the Administration. They'd like some of our ideas, they wouldn't like other of our ideas. But they basically said you guys thought up this proposal really carefully obviously. You talked about it a lot. You talked to a lot of people about it. You clearly think that this is going to address the needs you have in your education and you guys are the best people to know what those needs are so let's just do it.
Interview #10
Sharon Hiner, MD
Medicine Attending - Cancer Committee Program Chairperson
Graduate of CCRMC Family Medicine Residency Program
We have amazing Residents. They're dedicated. They're bright. They want to work. They want to take care of, I think, a special patient population that we have who have not only a lot of medical problems, but a lot of social issues.
Interview #11
Rajiv Pramanik, MD
Emergency Department
Graduate of CCRMC Family Medicine Residency Program
Well, I think a lot of the people here and the reason this program was made by Dr. Degnan many years ago was because he wanted to get people to help the poor and the underserved. That kind of good moral and good ethics have continued on.
Interview #12
Estela Hernandez, MD
Asst. Director - Family Medicine Residency Program
Graduate of CCRMC Family Medicine Residency Program
As a matter of fact my whole family asked, 'why are you working in County? Why can't you be a real doctor?' They do have the assumption that County ... that only bad doctors work for County and only bad patients come to County; which is not the case. I think we have great faculty. We have great patients and lots of learning. The reason that people are here, the main reason is because they like to work with low-income people.
Interview #13
Stuart Forman, MD
Asst. Director - Critical Care Unit
Graduate of CCRMC Family Medicine Residency Program
If I were to get sick or need surgery I would come here in a second. We have a Neurosurgeon who does not belong to this healthplan because he's a contract physician. He had a family member who needed surgery. He had a choice of places to go, to bring his family, and he brought her here because he trusted this facility more than any other facility that he knew.
Interview #14
Clinical Psychologist
Director - Behavioral Medicine Program
Faculty Leadership Group
There are several ways in which I think we stand out. One is the people. So for a business it's location, location, location. For a Residency, I think, it's people, people, people. We have outstanding Residents, interested committed people. We have outstanding faculty who are committed. This is a place where you don't get the feeling that people are just doing their job. You feel like they're here and doing what they do because they love doing it.
Interview #15
Sharon Hiner, MD
There really is a huge amount of great things to do. You know we're in the middle of the Bay Area. San Francisco is, on a good day, a thirty-five (35) minute drive. Snow skiing in the winter on the weekends. Water skiing in the summer on the Delta on the weekends. It's just a beautiful area to live in.
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