For immediate release: July 16, 2007
Contact: Emily Wofford Cobb
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775-784-6006
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Five School of Medicine graduates achieve chief resident status
Graduates from Class of 2004 and 2005 receive prestigious honor
RENO, Nev. –Five graduates from the University of Nevada School of Medicine have achieved chief resident status for the remaining year of their residency training. Four graduates from the Class of 2004 and a 2005 graduate were named as chief resident in their respective training programs.
Alumni from the Class of 2004 achieving chief resident status include: Timothy Baker, M.D., who is serving his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago Hospital; Francesca Dougherty Lee, M.D., who is in residency training in Internal Medicine at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago; James Richter, M.D., who is also training at Loyola University Medical Center in the pathology program; and, Ming Zhou, M.D., who will serve as chief resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Las Vegas.
Class of 2005 graduate Lianne Ong, M.D. will act as chief resident for the family medicine program in Las Vegas for the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
Residency is a stage of post-graduate medical training that leads to eligibility for board certification in a primary care or referral specialty. It is filled by a resident physician who has received a medical degree and training is composed almost entirely of the care of hospitalized or clinic patients, mostly with direct supervision by more senior physicians. A residency may follow the internship year or include the internship year as the first year of residency.
A chief resident is a senior-level resident who has been assigned administrative and training responsibilities within the residency training program that are in addition to those regularly performed by other residents in his or her department and post-graduate year. Typically, physicians named as chief residents are completing their last year of training.
The residency can also be followed by a fellowship during which the physician is trained in a sub-specialty.
The five School of Medicine graduates assumed their new chief resident roles July first which also marked the start of their final year of residency training.
As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been meeting statewide healthcare, educational, and clinical needs since 1969. The School of Medicine encompasses 16 clinical medical education departments, including Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Internal Medicine, Surgery, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, as well as ten nationally-recognized departments within basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. As the largest multi-specialty healthcare focus within the state, the School of Medicine employs more than 185 doctors who both teach and practice medicine throughout Nevada. The school’s statewide faculty physician practice group has a combined 25 different medical specialties with seven physician practice offices located in the Reno-Sparks area and five physician offices located in Las Vegas.
The University of Nevada School of Medicine utilizes a best-practice approach to medicine and is committed to addressing the health needs of Nevada now and in the future. For more information, please visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.
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