The Sierra View Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency Program, offered
through the Graduate Medical Education Program, is fully accredited by
the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Our
curriculum builds competence through several skillsets and establishes
lifelong learning habits that prepare residents for success.
Our program is based on two themes: patient care and career development.
We want our residents to become superb clinicians. We have an outstanding
and dedicated group of faculty enriched in a culture that fosters and
promotes a positive learning environment to achieve this goal.
A Message From Paul Watanakunakorn MD, Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency
Thank you for your interest in our fully accredited community-based internal
medicine residency program. At Sierra View Medical Center, real-life, evidence-based medicine is practiced
with an emphasis on strengthening the quality of life with compassion,
collaboration, accountability, integrity, and respect. Our patients come
from all walks of life and a diversity of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds,
and they present with a wide variety of disease processes, including conditions
unique to the Central Valley of California. For our learners, this exposure
facilitates not only the accumulation of medical knowledge but also the
honing of interpersonal and communication skills essential to the effective
practice of medicine. Emphasis on a multidisciplinary team approach and
maintenance of a collegial atmosphere with peers, ancillary staff, attending
physicians, and other services further enhances the learning experience.
In the first year of training, emphasis is on basic skills and rapid accumulation
of medical knowledge needed to practice or lay the foundation for fellowship
while also giving exposure to outpatient primary care. During the second
year, it is expected that the learner will gain confidence and skills
needed for minimally supervised to independent practice and assume a basic
supervisory and teaching role with medical students and PGY1 residents.
During the third year, fine tuning of ICU skills including the management
of complex, unstable patients and a consultative role is expected along
with more advanced supervision of earlier learners. Expect lively discussions
at bedside and in conference and expect to be challenged!
Learners can hone their leadership and academic skills by becoming a member
of one of our many hospital committees or by participating in local, regional,
or national meetings presenting their own research project or an interesting
case report. We have a robust mentorship and coaching program with enthusiastic
mentors to help our learners plan the direction of their future careers,
and to support our residents as they face personal stressors or career-related
challenges.
We welcome you to find out more and to join us!
Paul Watanakunakorn MD, Internal Medicine Recidency Program Director
Sierra View Medical Center, real-life, evidence-based medicine is practiced
with an emphasis on strengthening the quality of life with compassion,
collaboration, accountability, integrity, and respect. Our patients come
from all walks of life and a diversity of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds,
and they present with a wide variety of disease processes, including conditions
unique to the Central Valley of California. For our learners, this exposure
facilitates not only the accumulation of medical knowledge but also the
honing of interpersonal and communication skills essential to the effective
practice of medicine. Emphasis on a multidisciplinary team approach and
maintenance of a collegial atmosphere with peers, ancillary staff, attending
physicians, and other services further enhances the learning experience.
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