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Like most places some of the docs were great, some not so much. They seemed to be the extremes of the spectrum with Dr. Faerber the PD oscillating between the two. Powers is a sports guy that used to be a QB for Ohio State. Some days I half expected him to crack open a beer and hand me one in the clinic he was such a nice stand-up guy.

Caputo is also very nice but pretty quiet. Their joints guy is a prick and I watched and just stared down students and treated them like garbage. Faerber is a hot or cold guy that one second will praise you for an excellent read on x-ray and then chastise you for breathing too hard (maybe not that extreme!) The peds guy is very efficient and expects the best out of you and can be harsh at times but all in good fun. Wowzas a lot of clinic. 4 days a week of clinic where they see 80-120 patients a day.

50% speak spanish and of those probably 50% speak ONLY spanish. This made it difficult to do an H&P, although they had a phone interpreter that you could use its still impossible to do a provocative test and get 'real time' results. I initially hated having to do so much clinic but learned that there were a lot of gaps in my knowledge that were filled in during clinic days. Also its the first time I felt like a real physician. You get a lot of autonomy as a student and see patients on your own on day one. By the end of the month you see patients, read the x-rays, chart your SOAP note then present to the attending or senior resident and they just sign the chart (county hospital.).

All great surgeons; stern but fair and really want the residents to be the best surgeons they can be. Chairman is Faerber, a very eccentric sports guy but sharp and responsible for a very high volume county hospital based program. You have to work hard to get on his good side. Caputo is vice chair and a renassance surgeon, hand and ue trained but does everything including pelvis. Others, Schlecter, top notch peds guys. Sherman and Yost, both phenomenal traumatologists. I never spent much time with the 2 to 3 spine guys but heard they were great, Steinman is very well known.

Cruz is a great hand and ue surgeon. Cernyck is the foot and ankle guy, whom does the second highest volume of ankle replacements in California supposedly. Drinhaus and Ellis are the joints guys at county, both cool, opposite personalities from what saw, mellow and intense respectively. Powers is a great sports guy and former ASU and Ohio State quarterback. I hated this rotation. I was invited, they actually called and asked me to do this rotation.

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And during the 4 weeks that I was there no less than 10 other students where also there at anyone time, I met probably a total of 20-30 different medical students (and keep in mind they take a grand total of 3 residents/year), most of whom were invited for the rotation as well. I found that to be incredibly disrespectful, and a complete waste of my time. The number of medical students usually out numbered the total number of residents. Expect to be fighting over patients in the clinic and cases in the OR. Really not any fun at all. WARNING: If you are called and invited to do a rotation, don't go! I withdrew my application immediately upon leaving this rotation.

Desert Regional Medical CenterPALM SPRINGS, Calif. – The new family medicine training program of the UC Riverside School of Medicine will welcome its first eight resident physicians on Monday, June 22, the result of a multi-year effort to expand the primary care physician workforce in the Coachella Valley.A partnership between the UCR School of Medicine, Desert Regional Medical Center and the Desert Healthcare District has made the new residency training program a reality. The three-year program will enroll eight residents each year, meaning there will be a total of 24 residents when the family medicine program is fully developed.

Eight family physicians will graduate from the residency program each year starting in 2018.Family medicine is a primary care medical specialty in which physicians provide comprehensive medical care to patients of all ages and, increasingly, coordinate patients’ care by subspecialists. It is estimated that the area of the Coachella Valley served by Desert Regional Medical Center has a 50 percent shortage of family medicine physicians.Residency programs provide the post-M.D. Training required for physicians to become fully independent and board certified in their specialties.

During residency training, resident physicians provide patient care under the supervision of attending physicians who are faculty of the residency program. Gemma Kim, MD“Family medicine is essential in addressing the healthcare needs of both our region and nation,” said Dr. Gemma Kim, program director of the medical school’s family medicine training program in Palm Springs. “This program will expand access to primary care in the Coachella Valley while providing personalized care of the highest quality that is patient-, family- and community-centered.”Residents will train primarily in the family medicine center jointly operated by UCR Health, the medical school’s clinical enterprise, and First Choice Physician Partners and at Desert Regional Medical Center. Additional training sites are expected to be Riverside County clinics, Borrego Community Health Foundation clinics and the Desert AIDS Project.Expanding residency training programs is a key strategy of the UCR School of Medicine to address the severe physician shortage in Inland Southern California, according to Dr. Richard Olds, vice chancellor for health affairs at UCR and dean of the School of Medicine. “It takes more than building a medical school to expand and diversify our region’s physician workforce.

We have to establish new residency training programs to capitalize on the strong propensity for physicians to practice in the geographic area where they complete their residency training,” Olds said.One of the distinctive aspects of the Palm Springs family medicine program is the state-of-the-art outpatient family medicine center located across Tachevah Drive from Desert Regional Medical Center. The 13,000-square-foot facility features more than 20 exam rooms, two procedure rooms, a triage room and a group counseling room. The second floor is equipped with desk space for residents, as well as videoconferencing space and technology.Another distinguishing feature of the program will be its focus on community medicine.

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