Meet the 1st group of residents to join Methodist Family Medicine Residency program
Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge has announced its inaugural group of medical school graduates who will train in the Knoxville-Oak Ridge area to become family doctors.
The Methodist Family Medicine Residency program, accredited by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), welcomes eight residents to begin training in July 2024, according to a hospital news release.
Methodist Medical Center is the sponsoring institution of the new Family Medicine Residency Program. The program will be integrated with the newly established Methodist Family Medicine Clinic in Oak Ridge. The clinic offers family medicine and primary care services for all ages.
As reported in The Oak Ridger last year, the residency program will be led by James Schindler, a family medicine physician.
"We are excited to bring in this very diverse and exciting inaugural class of residents,” Schindler is quoted as saying in the news release. “Our goal is to produce excellent primary care physicians who will practice in communities in East Tennessee for years to come.”
Schindler added, “Residents will have the resources of Methodist Medical Center and the Covenant Health enterprise, plus the amazing community of Oak Ridge and all the latest technology and training tools at their disposal. The program will grow to 24 total residents and a complement of teaching faculty over the next three years while expanding clinical care at the Methodist Family Medicine Clinic in Oak Ridge.”
Across the nation and in the Methodist Family Medicine Residency program, there were a record high number of applicants this year. Schindler explained that the match process is led by the National Resident Matching Program. According to the national organization, he said, this year’s residency match process included 6,395 certified programs offering 41,503 positions for Program Year One and Program Year Two trainees. That is the largest number in the NRMP’s history and a 3% increase in offered positions for medical training.
“We’re thrilled to be a fully matched program with such strong interest in our first year, knowing how competitive it is to fill family medicine resident spots,” Schindler said.
Family medicine doctors provide continuous, coordinated and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases and parts of the body, the release stated.
To learn more about the Methodist Family Medicine Program, visit MMCFamilyMedicineResidency.com.
The following medical school graduates will join the local program. The information includes where they graduated medical school and their hometowns.
Kristy Adams - University of Medicine and Health Sciences, St. Kitts; Hometown: DeLand, Florida
Rusul Alani - Ross University Medical School; Hometown: Knoxville
Ashley Conley - Lincoln Memorial University's DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine; Hometown: Martin, Kentucky
Chad Manuel - Lincoln Memorial University's DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine; Hometown: Alexandria, Louisiana
Yen Quach - Xavier University School of Medicine Hometown: Statesville, North Carolina
Usama Shahbaz - Saint James School of Medicine; Hometown: San Francisco, California
Isabelle Marie Soares Smith - Ross University Medical School; Hometown: Miami, Florida
Jeremy Steiner - American University of Integrative Sciences School of Medicine; Hometown: Dacula, Georgia.
This article originally appeared on Oakridger: Methodist Family Medicine Residency program's first residents listed
