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Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth today welcomed the first surgery residents in the hospital's 91-year history.
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth on Monday welcomed the first surgery residents in the hospital's 91-year history.
“This is a great opportunity for our hospital and the organization,” Joseph DeLeon, Texas Health Fort Worth's president, said in a release. “Along with the physicians on our medical staff, we will be guiding and mentoring the surgery residents to help them excel during this phase of their medical training while also learning from them. In addition, our patients and the community will benefit from this new program.”
“Fort Worth has a great medical community,” Mattie Parker, Fort Worth's new mayor, said at the new resident orientation. “We are proud to have you at Texas Health Fort Worth and our goal is to have you want to stay beyond your residency to practice in the Fort Worth area.”
Virtually all doctors enter a residence training program after finishing medical school. Training to become a surgeon takes five years, and residents are designated by “postgraduate year in training” in the program. Along with the three first-year residents, four residents are joining from other programs: one second-year, two third-year residents and one fourth-year resident.
The start of the surgery residency program at Texas Health Fort Worth is the first step in Texas Health Resources’ three-year plan to enhance graduate medical education offerings in the system to help increase access to convenient care, improve quality and health outcomes for North Texans and address the shortage of physicians in the Metroplex.
Andrew Masica, Texas Health's senior vice president and chief medical officer of Reliable Health, noted that residents often continue their careers where they train.
“These new residents will help us expand the services we can provide to the patients inside our hospital walls, in our practices and other care settings right now,” Masica said in the release. “We also believe they will help our communities for decades to come as part of the North Texas physician workforce.”
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