Shasta Community Health
Center00 Teaching & Training Affiliations:
Shasta Community Health Center
is very proud to be associated with many of the region00 and state00
finest teaching and training institutions and organizations. SCHC00
mission includes a strong emphasis on teaching, training and education
as a way of both helping with recruitment and retention, providing additional
access to care and as a way of keeping the quality of care of our organization
at a very high level. The growth in our affiliation relationships is
a testimony to the high quality of our medical, dental, behavioral faculty
and support staff and our clear mission of caring for the disadvantaged
in the communities we serve.
Mercy Family
Practice Residency Program:
The Mercy Family Practice Residency Program is a fully accredited three
year continuity training program based through Mercy Hospital 00Redding
(a CHW affiliate) with outpatient services located at the Residency00
own clinic site in Redding. The Mercy Residency program presently sponsors
18 family practice residents (6-6-6). The residents typically do 00ommunity00
rotations, including a concentrated pediatric rotation, along with sub-specialty
rotations that bring them into Shasta Community Health Center00 programs.
From 1996 00summer of 2004, Shasta Community Health Center had its
own Community Health Center track (of the Mercy Residency Program) that
at one time sponsored continuity training for up to 9 residents (3-3-3).
At the direction of Mercy Hospital Redding, the SCHC-track was closed
effective July 1, 2004. While in existence, SCHC was responsible for
matching, training and placing the graduates of its training track program
in various medically underserved communities including those served
by Community Health Centers, Indian and Alaskan Native Centers and Rural
Health Clinics in various parts of mostly the Western United States.
SCHC00 clinicians are part of the Mercy faculty for inpatient work
and for the provision of an extensive pediatric training experience
(both outpatient and inpatient). It is with great pride that 100% of
those who have come through the SCHC-CHC track program have gone to
practice in these areas for these organizations. While we greatly regret
this decision, we look forward to future opportunities in helping to
train and place family practice residents who have a strong interest
in a career serving traditionally underserved populations and encourage
medical students interested in a career in Family Practice Medicine
to contract the Mercy-Redding program for more information.
Contact Information: Prospective
Family Practice Residents-
Director's Name: Duane
Bland, MD
Phone Number: (530)225-6090
Fax Number: (530)225-6093
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