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OB/GYN Residency Program Receives Accreditation
Posted on Dec 14, 2016 6:02pm PST
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The
Obstetrics/Gynecology (OB/GYN) Residency Program in the
School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside has received accreditation
from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the national
organization that accredits US medical residency and fellowship programs
and the institutions that sponsor them.
The program was accredited for a total of 16 residents. The first class
of four residents will begin their training in July 2017. The four-year
training program will enroll four residents each year, meaning there will
be a total of 16 residents when the OB/GYN program is fully developed.
Sponsored by the School of Medicine, the primary training site will be
Riverside Community Hospital.
Residency programs provide the post-M.D. training required for physicians
to become fully independent and board certified in their specialties.
OB/GYN training programs are four years long and, during that time, residents
provide patient care under the supervision of attending physicians who
are faculty of the residency program.
Read the full story here.
About Riverside Community Hospital
Founded in 1901, Riverside Community Hospital (RCH) is a 373 licensed bed,
full-service acute care hospital in the heart of the Inland Empire. With
over 500 physicians on staff, representing over 200 specialties and over
1,700 employees, Riverside Community Hospital is an Inland Empire leader
in providing advanced, comprehensive health care to the Inland region.
RCH houses one of the largest Emergency Room and Trauma Centers in the
Inland Empire at 50 beds with an average wait time of only 22 minutes.
RCH is one of Riverside County's only STEMI (heart attack) receiving
centers and is a fully accredited Chest Pain Center. Other Centers of
Excellence include the Heart Care Institute, offering invasive and non-invasive
cardiac procedures, the Transplant Program, and a Level II Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit.
About the UCR School of Medicine
The UCR School of Medicine, one of more than 15 new medical schools established
in the U.S. over the last decade, is the sixth medical school in the University
of California system. Currently enrolling 50 new medical students each
year, the school’s mission is to expand and diversify the region’s
physician workforce and develop innovative research and healthcare delivery
models that improve the health of people living in Inland Southern California.
The medical school also offers a Ph.D. program in biomedical sciences,
and operates five residency training programs in the medical specialties
of family medicine, internal medicine, general surgery and psychiatry,
and partners with Loma Linda University in a primary care pediatrics residency
training program.