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practitioners and physician’s assistants. A residency program is also a new collaboration on the horizon at Owensboro Health Regional Hospital. “I think that’s going to be a huge boost to to this community,” Nunley said. “We’re exploring several different paths for establishing that program.” One possibility is establishing a residency program that would
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work in conjunction with the University of Kentucky or the University of Louisville to establish a community-based family medicine residency. Another possibility is a regional consortium with Indiana University’s medical school, which has a campus at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, St. Mary’s Medical Center and Deaconess Health System in Evansville and Jasper (Ind.) Memorial – – – – – – –
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Hospital. Nunley said officials hope either residency program would help retain physicians trained through Owensboro Health. In the consortium, she said, the residency program would have the capacity to train 120 doctors in five specialties. “That’s going to be huge. ... Physicians who are residents in a community typically stay there when they graduate,” Nunley said. A physician staying in a community generates an estimated $1.3 million in economic impact, she said. “It’s a priority for this board to see this come to fruition,” Nunley said of the residency programs, “and we’re having some very important conversations with these different medical schools.” Doctors specializing in primary care, which includes family and internal medicine, is the priority for physician recruitment at OH, followed by neurology, psychiatry,
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