This summer, Jackson, Mich.-based Allegiance Health welcomed resident physicians as part of four new residency programs in emergency medicine, family medicine, general surgery and traditional internship, a program for residents who have not decided on a specialty, according to a MLive report.
In their first year, the programs attracted 33 residents.
The system started the programs in part because the physician shortage nationwide and in Michigan. "The bottleneck was happening at residency training, which can only occur at hospitals," Pam Royston, administrative director of graduate medical education at Allegiance Health, told MLive.
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