Baptist hospitals of southeast texas program internal medicine residency

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Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas has welcomed its first class of developing physicians enrolled in its new internal medicine residency program. The system hopes the program will build more opportunities for future local medical students and improve physician recruitment.

The group of 18 doctors came from medical schools both across the world to learn from the system's physicians. Some of them may spend up to three years in the program serving Southeast Texas patients.

But they won’t be the only ones.

The system plans to accommodate up to 39 residents when the program ramps up to full speed. Residents also will eventually be joined by medical students, who are observing in the Beaumont hospital as a part of Baptist’s partnership with Sam Houston State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine in Conroe.

Todd Senters, associate vice president of operations, said the move to create a learning hospital will give the system opportunities to advance the level of care and support it can give to its growing patient population. But it also helps solve the growing issue of physician recruitment that regional hospitals are confronting.

“It can be difficult to recruit doctors into a market like this and even harder to explain the benefits of an area that candidates aren’t familiar with,” Senters said. “Programs like this are going to become best practice for making sure we have enough physicians to meet patient needs.”

The new program joins Baptist’s already-existing pharmacy practice program, which also welcomed new residents in June.

Combined with its Sam Houston partnership, Baptist hopes to leverage a kind-of educational pipeline where local students with a passion for serving their hometowns could go from Lamar University, to Sam Houston and back to Beaumont as a resident.

After an orientation day on June 30 where residents reviewed procedures and training, Thursday was their first full day of duties.

Physicians from the Baptist Physician Network, the group contracted to staff the system’s hospital, and educators including Dr. Jim Barker from Sam Houston University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine were on-hand to give skills demonstrations during the orientation.

Dr. Nikki Hancock, a network physician helping coordinate residents, said the program will be a foundational advancement for the area and could give participants a unique learning experience.

“The size of this program means it will be a lot more personal and community based, with more time with patients,” Hancock said. “It’s the only program like it in this area, which makes the resident’s learning a priority.”

As the nation’s healthcare industry continues to consolidate and evolve and Texas’ communities increase in size, state agencies have predicted that shortages of health professionals could grow exponentially within the next few years.

A 2017 report from the Texas Department of State Health Services concluded that, by 2030, general internal medicine will have the greatest need for physicians.

In the Gulf Coast region, which includes most of Southeast Texas, demand for general internists will outpace supply by more than 15% by the beginning of the next decade.

Those changes will continue to disproportionately impact the state’s most rural areas, which Senters said has a potential snowball effect for systems like Baptist that increasingly see more patients from Newton, Jasper, Orange and other outlying counties.

“When patients lack access to care, they delay their treatment,” Senters said. “That means when they reach us, they are in dire need. That’s why we have to find the next generation of professionals to provide the level of care they need and get to them sooner.”

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