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GME residency positions available to students right here in the Central Valley

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What is the Residency Match?
Central California Residency Program Development
California PGY-I Main Residency Match Statistics
Local Residencies Available to CHSU-COM Graduates
CHSU-COM Match Rates

What is the Residency Match?

All DO and MD graduates utilize the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) to begin the process of matching into a residency specialty of their choice.  The National Residency Match Program (NRMP) match occurs in March each year for senior medical students to attempt to be accepted for their preferred residency and location.  Residencies may be located at academic medical centers, community hospitals, military facilities, VA hospitals, or  Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) serving the rural and/or underserved areas.  All soon to be  graduates (DO and MD) compete for these positions at ACGME approved residency programs. Main Residency Match Data and Reports can be found on the The Match, National Residency Matching Program website. Visit NRMP’s Main Residency Match Data and Reports page for the full reports.

Central California Residency Program Development

There is rapid growth in undergraduate medical education in order to meet the needs of a changing demographic. This has resulted in the need to develop additional residency training positions across the country. Relative to the number of graduating medical students, there is a growing concern that the number of increases in post-graduate (residency) training programs are not keeping pace. CHSU is dedicated to working with existing facilities and new clinical settings to start or increase the number of residency positions in and around Central California.  We know that our area has a significant shortage of providers.  We also know that a large percentage of residents stay within 50-100 miles of where they complete their residency to practice.  Our mission specifically outlines our desire to increase healthcare access by educating new physicians, increasing opportunities for residency in our area, thereby significantly increasing the number of physicians in Central California to create better health access to our communities.

We are working with a number of hospitals, hospital systems, and clinics in our area to help encourage them to choose to add graduate medical education opportunities here in the Central Valley and provide them with resources to help make the resident experience exceptional.  Many of our local and surrounding facilities understand the importance of graduate medical education and are taking steps to add GME positions to provide excellent training for our graduates.

GME growth chart

California PGY-I Main Residency Match Statistics

The number of PGY-I or first year residency positions available in California have also continued to increase over the last decade. The number of PGY-1 residency matches in California for Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) graduates has increase over 200% since 2017. Below is a chart of the PGY-1 main residency match statistics for California.

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Local Residencies Available to CHSU-COM Graduates

InstitutionsCitiesResidency ProgramsPGY-1 SpotsDirector
Adventist HealthBakersfieldInternal Medicine4Leila Moosavi, MD
Adventist HealthHanfordHanford Family Medicine6Shruti Javali, MD
Adventist HealthSonoraSonora Family Medicine4Shruti Javali, MD
Adventist HealthTulareFamily Medicine10Muhammad Nausherwan Khan, MD
Adventist HealthTulareInternal Medicine4Shirisha Avadhanula, MD
Clinica Sierra VistaBakersfieldFamily Medicine10Carol Stewart, MD
Dignity, Bakersfield Memorial HospitalBakersfieldInternal Medicine10Arash Heidari, MD
Dignity, Mercy Medical CenterMercedFamily Medicine8John B  Paik-Tesch, MD
Dignity, St. Joseph’s Medical CenterStocktonAnesthesiology6Danny Newhide, MD
Dignity, St. Joseph’s Medical CenterStocktonEmergency Medicine12Brian Wood, MD
Dignity, St. Joseph’s Medical CenterStocktonFamily Medicine10Hanadi Abou Dargham, MD
Dignity, St. Joseph’s Medical CenterStocktonInternal Medicine20Jasleen Kaur, MD
Dignity, St. Joseph’s Medical CenterStocktonNeurology4Richard Riemer, DO
Dignity, St. Joseph’s Medical CenterStocktonOrthopaedic Surgery3Jaicharan Lyengar, MD
Dignity, St. Joseph’s Medical CenterStocktonPsychiatry10Amarpreet Singh, MD
Dignity, St. Joseph’s Medical CenterStocktonTransitional Year16Gary Olds, MD
Kaiser PermanenteModestoEmergency Medicine8Nur-Ain Nadir, MD
Kaweah DeltaVisaliaAnesthesiology6Anne Shapiro, DO
Kaweah DeltaVisaliaEmergency Medicine13Sean Oldroyd, DO
Kaweah DeltaVisaliaFamily Medicine7Mario Martinez, MD
Kaweah DeltaVisaliaPsychiatry7Mandeep Bagga, MD
Kaweah DeltaVisaliaSurgery10Sebastiano Cassaro, MD
Kaweah DeltaVisaliaTransitional Year12Michael Stanley, DO
Kern Medical CenterBakersfieldEmergency Medicine7Lev Livet, MD
Kern Medical CenterBakersfieldInternal Medicine12Kasey Fox, DO
Kern Medical CenterBakersfieldObstetrics and Gynecology4Amin A. Ramzan, MD
Kern Medical CenterBakersfieldPsychiatry7Mohammed Molla, MD
Kern Medical CenterBakersfieldSurgery4Amber Jones, DO
Natividad Medical CenterSalinasFamily Medicine13Melissa Nothnagle, MD
Saint Agnes Medical CenterFresnoEmergency Medicine8Jesse Kellar, MD
Saint Agnes Medical CenterFresnoFamily Medicine8Michael N. Moya, MD
Saint Agnes Medical CenterFresnoInternal Medicine19Shabib Dian, MD,
Saint Agnes Medical CenterFresnoTransitional Year16Clifton Van Putten, MD
San Joaquin GeneralFrench CampFamily Medicine9Lauren Brown-Berchtold, MD
San Joaquin GeneralFrench CampInternal Medicine11Syung Min Jung, MD
San Joaquin GeneralFrench CampSurgery17Gabriel Herscu, MD
Sierra ViewPortervilleInternal Medicine16Paul Watanakunakorn, MD
Sutter HealthModestoFamily Medicine13RaeLeigh C. Payanes, MD
Sutter HealthModestoInternal Medicine26James Kruer, MD
Sutter HealthRosevilleAnesthesiology10Adrian Elliot, MD
Sutter HealthRosevilleEmergency Medicine11Linda Herman, MD
Sutter HealthRosevilleInternal Medicine13Van Geslani, MD
Sutter HealthRosevilleOB/GYN3Mikio Nihira, MD
Sutter HealthRosevilleNeurology3Shubhangi Chitnis, MD
Sutter HealthRosevilleSurgery6Jon Perlstein, MD
Sutter HealthRosevilleTransitional Year15Rishi Menon, MD
Sutter HealthJacksonFamily Medicine2Jennifer Shoemaker, MD
UCSF FresnoFresnoEmergency Medicine12Rawnie Ruegner, MD
UCSF FresnoFresnoFamily Medicine16Caroline Render-Teixeira, MD
UCSF FresnoFresnoInternal Medicine23Steven Tringali, DO
UCSF FresnoFresnoOB/GYN4Shelley McCormack, MD
UCSF FresnoFresnoOrthopaedic Surgery4Nathan Hoekzema, MD
UCSF FresnoFresnoPediatrics7Steven Foster, DO
UCSF FresnoFresnoPsychiatry6Craig Campbell, MD
UCSF FresnoFresnoSurgery6Amy Kwok, MD
United Health CentersFresnoInternal Medicine5M. Ganga Hematillake, MD
Valley Children’s HospitalMaderaPediatrics14Vini Vijayan, MD
Valley Consortium for Medical EducationModestoFamily Medicine12Carrie Janiski, DO
Valley Consortium for Medical EducationModestoOrthopaedic Surgery3William Holmes, MD
Valley Health TeamFresnoFamily Medicine6Lydia Herrera-Mata, MD
568 Total

CHSU-COM Match Rates

The CHSU-COM will publish their GME match results when available after their inaugural class of osteopathic medical students participate in the residency matches during the 2023-24 academic year (AY).

See Match Results

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