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9. Medical residents to practice in Appalachia

http://www.statejournal.com/story/26626777/residents-to-practice-in-appalachia
The State Journal
Residents to practice in Appalachia
Posted: Sep 25, 2014

Every family medicine resident who graduated from the family and community health residency program at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine in June 2014 will practice in central Appalachia, according to Department Chairman Stephen Petrany, M.D.

“We take seriously our school's mission of educating a physician workforce for central Appalachia, and this year's graduating class of medical residents is a prime example of that commitment,” Petrany said.

Department Residency Director W. Mitchel Shaver, M.D., said Marshall Family Medicine has historically produced physicians to meet the needs of rural Appalachia. Shaver said in the past 10 years, the program has completed 75 residents — 57 of whom are practicing in West Virginia, and 66 of whom are practicing in the general central Appalachian region.

For more than a dozen times over the past two decades, Marshall has been recognized with an Achievement Award from the American Academy of Family Physicians for its efforts to foster student interest in family medicine and produce graduates who enter the specialty.