General Information

     The San Joaquin General Hospital is a public institution serving a patient population which receives little or no other medical care besides that provided by its large emergency drop-in services, its formal clinics and its inpatient facilities.  The major part of the direct patient care is rendered by the house staff.  The teaching and consulting services are provided by full-time and geographical full-time faculty and by an attending staff recruited from the local community and from nearby medical schools.

     Perhaps more than other training programs, ours closely simulates the medical patterns which the practicing doctor lives with from day-to-day.  Our house staff have to a steady flow of ambulatory and acute medical and surgical problems to care for on teaching wards.  When residency at San Joaquin General Hospital is complete, House Staff are broadly trained and well able to enter clinical practice.  It is of interest that many of our graduates have settled in this area.

Educational Programs

     The San Joaquin General Hospital has approved post-graduate training programs (residencies) in Internal Medicine, Surgery and Family Practice plus a Transitional Intern-ship.  These programs are approved by the Liaison Committee on Graduate Medical Education, American Medical Association and the American Board of Medical Specialties.

     As a teaching institution, our goal is to provide superior patient care and excellent educational opportunities and environment.  The Medical Education Committee coordinates the training programs to obtain maximum benefit from consultants, attending physicians, and visiting professors. Full-time Chiefs and Staff supervise each residency program.  The teaching staff includes faculty members from University of California Medical Schools at both Davis and San Francisco and the Stanford University Medical School.  Of equal importance is the locally talented attending staff who are Board-Eligible or Certified Specialists and Sub-specialists.

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Library

     The Library has a full-time librarian.  It contains approximately 6,000 medical texts and bound volumes and subscribes to more than 130 medical journals.  Standard textbooks are kept current.  The resources of two nearby major University Medical Centers are available through the Inter-Library Loan Service.

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