Residents should expect to be full doctors.
The second they start with all the responsibility,
they see the same patients I see.
They deliver babies, they take care of newborns,
and we teach 'em all to do it as they go.
Variety is always good.
There's big city medicine and small town medicine.
Having the variety
of doing surgery in a urban major medical center
and then going to a smaller town setting is exciting.
I definitely feel different than first year.
Kind of been growing
to be a little more comfortable in your
new skin as a doctor.
This was actually my second to last interview out of like,
I don't know, 25 I think, and I almost canceled it.
I almost said forget it, you know,
I've been into enough places, but I came here anyway.
I was like, just give it a shot.
And a lot of the wellbeing aspect
of things was really easily visible.
You could look at the residents and look at the faculty
and see that everyone genuinely enjoyed their time here
and that was really important to me.
The faculty are really kind and supportive,
but, you know, challenge you and kind of a fun way.
I like family medicine
because you get to do a little bit of everything.
Family is pretty important to me.
I have two kids and a third on the way,
and I could tell early on
that this is a family friendly program.
The Sutter Health Family Medicine residency program has
developed four unique program tracks
that offer residents the opportunity
to practice in an environment that aligns
with their interests in each of these tracks.
Residents will spend their first year at Sutter Medical
Center, Sacramento, where they will practice in a large
multidisciplinary hospital in the heart of the capital city.
Residents who choose the Sacramento Track will continue
serving the same diverse urban population in their
second and third years of training.
The Davis Track is designed
for residents interested in working at a
small community hospital.
Residents spend the majority of their time at Sutter Davis,
but will also have the opportunity to train in Sacramento
for disciplines not offered at Davis.
For residents interested in working in a rural environment,
we offer the Amador rural training track
and the coast rural training track In these tracks,
residents will spend their second
and third years working at Sutter Amador Hospital in the
city of Jackson, or at Sutter Coast Hospital in Crescent
City near the Oregon border.
I selected the rural Amador track
because I wanted to practice medicine
and train in an area that allowed me to live
amongst the community I'd like to serve during my career.
I love the idea of being part of the community.
That's why I chose Amador.
It's nice to have residents out here
and kind of doing the same thing
that I did when I was a resident.
The clinic has been this incredible space where not only
learning can be comfortable at work, can be comfortable.
Residents absolutely love their patients
and the patients love their residents,
and it turns out to be this beautiful small town feel.
For me, I feel like the first year being in the,
the large mothership of downtown has been good.
And then being juxtaposed
with here at Sutter Davis Hospital,
where it's a smaller community hospital,
but you still get the same medicine
that you do in Sacramento.
It's an urban medical center,
and the residents rotate with us down here, uh,
for their surgery rotation.
Sacramento kind of had that urban feel,
had a diverse group of patients.
There's a little bit more, um, opportunities here
to pursue HIV medicine addiction medicine, so
that's why I chose this area.
Our curriculum is both broad.
It covers everything that family medicine should be
covering, but also we have incredible flexibility
in terms of electives.
The sky's the limit, essentially like you wanna do it, you,
you just have to talk to the faculty
and we'll find a way to make it do it.
And that's, I think, the spirit of family medicine.
You can do anything.
Residency is hard, but we make it as nurturing
and welcoming as possible.
We have retreats, support groups, team building.
We've worked at community gardens, floated down the river,
volunteered at food banks.
All these things are done to maintain the overall wellbeing
of our residents for the time that we have them.
We like to spend time together
and we're able to learn a lot
of medicine while still keeping each other afloat In
terms of wellness,
I think with any kind of growth,
it's initially uncomfortable,
but then being uncomfortable means you're growing,
but growing in a safe space with people who are always there
to help you is a really good feeling.
Cider Health kind of checked all the boxes I wanted to,
in a residency, I wanted an unopposed program
where I wasn't competing with other specialties.
I wanted to practice full scope medicine,
which I had been able to,
and I wanted to make sure I was at a residency
where I had felt like I would have good relationships
with both my colleagues and the faculty, which I have
Their excitement for.
Medicine is contagious
and it's invigorating to spend time with these people
because it makes you better.
Every time I've worked with someone
or taught them something, it, it, uh,
gets me more excited about continuing to, you know,
do this for the rest of my life.
The strength of our program is we make really great solid
family physicians who go out in the
community and do what they do.
They come in afraid and new
and I call them the baby doctors
and suddenly over three years they grow into these
incredible physicians
and it's so, there's so much pride in watching that
and it's just an honor to be a part of that journey.
I love family medicine. Um, I felt like it was something
that I decided relatively late in my medical school,
school career, but residency has really just only solidified
that seeing it here in this residency especially,
like it's everything that I thought I wanted out of medicine
as a med student.
