Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) is expecting more than 70 new Resident Doctors this summer.
Its sixth class spans seven specialties and increases the number of residents in each area to:
- 30 General Surgery
- 60 Internal Medicine
- 36 Family Medicine
- 36 Emergency Medicine
- 18 Psychiatry
- 12 Transitional Year
- 8 Primary Care Track
NGMC also has 18 Cardiovascular Disease fellows and two Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellows working and training, bringing the total number of physician learners to 220. All new residents and fellows begin work on July 1.
In the months leading up to Friday, which was Match Day, medical students participating in the National Resident Matching Program applied to residency programs and interviewed at hospitals across the nation. After those interviews, residency programs ranked the students – and students ranked the programs. Both rank lists were plugged into a national database which crunches the numbers to determine which of the students match with NGMC. Those results were released Friday.
Resident physicians are licensed doctors training in a specialty. They train for three to 10 years after medical school, providing patient care and performing procedures under appropriate supervision. They can write orders and prescribe medication. Residents also have educational, testing and evaluation requirements. Their training is overseen by Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Learn more about NGMC’s residency programs at www.ngmcgme.org.