Providence St. Vincent Medical Center: Our Residents
The residents at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center (PSVMC) are a diverse and enthusiastic group. They come from a wide variety of backgrounds and each brings a unique perspective to residency. During this formative experience, the residents themselves are an integral part of the supportive and nurturing learning environment at PSVMC. The small size of the program, the presence of talented peers, and the humane call schedule all combine to allow important relationships to develop and flourish.
Our internal medicine residency program is uniquely situated to provide the best of academics in the setting of a community of physicians who put patient care first.
Since we are a tertiary referral facility for much of coastal Oregon and southwest Washington, we care for a broad variety of patients whose illnesses range from common diseases to much more complex cases. The diverse disease mix inspires curiosity, and residents and faculty regularly exchange articles by e-mail after discussing a case at morning report.
Becoming a good doctor requires more than academic proficiency. Our core faculty, subspecialists and hospitalists are excellent mentors and role models. They are balanced, happy, energized human beings who truly care about their patients and about the residents.
Providence St. Vincent has been a great fit for me – the right balance of academic excellence and humanism that has helped me develop into the doctor I wrote about becoming (so earnestly!) in that med school application almost eight years ago.
I'm not sure poet Theodore Roethke was thinking about picking a residency program when he wrote The Waking, but the advice seems apropos nonetheless. I'll close with a quote from him – and an open invitation to come check out Providence St. Vincent!
We think by feeling. What is there to know? . . .
I learn by going where I have to go.
~Theodore Roethke, The Waking
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Shelley Schoepflin Sanders, M.D.
Chief Resident
Providence St. Vincent Internal Medicine Residency Program E-mail the chief
