CASCADES EAST FAMIlY MEDICINE RESIDENTS Tackle Rigors of Rural Medicine Cascades East Retre at at Lake of the Woods the cAScAdeS eASt fAMilY Medicine Residency Program is preparing to welcome its twenty-first class of residents later this year. The program enjoys an impressive track record of successfully training and placing family practice physicians with a passion for the unique challenges and rigors of rural medicine. Oregon’s only ACGME-accredited three-year physician residency outside of the Portland metropolitan area, Cascades East was developed in part as a way to shore up the primary care base serving Klamath Falls and neighboring frontier communities. Several other Oregon communities considered to be geographic health professional shortage areas for primary care have also benefited from the program’s success over the years. “Between 45 and 50 percent of our graduates stay in Oregon after completing their residency, and more than 60 percent of our graduates are now practicing in communities of 25,000 or less,” said Joyce Hollander-Rodriguez, MD, Cascades East Program Director and Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine at OHSU. “We’ve now crossed the threshold where more than fifty percent of the primary care providers in the Klamath Falls area are graduates of this program,” added Hollander-Rodriguez. Cascade East residents benefit from being embedded in the local health care community in a way that wouldn’t be possible if they trained in a major academic institution in a large city. Program 12 Medicine in O 12 Oregon www.TheOMA.org
OMA Spring 2015 Magazine
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