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Choosing my residency here at Cleveland Clinic Akron
General has been one of the best decisions I could've made.
What I never realized until I became a resident,
it's really important to go somewhere that you will be happy
and that the other people are happy.
Everybody here is willing to give you an opportunity.
People just want you to excel.
They want you to be a great doctor.
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Cleveland Clinic Akron General is a more than 500 bed,
community-based,
but university affiliated, academic medical program
with access to all of the wonderful resources we have
within the Cleveland Clinic.
At any given time, there's close to a 160 residents
here training in one of eight programs,
including our new psychiatry residency.
If you're looking for a place that you can talk
to the attending day one as the intern,
and you can be in the operating room,
this is the place to be.
We're level one trauma center, and with that,
we get to see some of the most severe cases,
some of the most severe injuries.
You have a lot of responsibilities.
You will get taken right into that crashing patient
that shows up, the respiratory distress patients
that are coming in needing intubated.
In our second and third year,
we are the ones that are interfacing between the patients
and our attending physicians.
So, we have a great sense of autonomy,
and I think it gives us a lot of confidence in our skills.
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Because Cleveland Clinic Akron General
is part of the Cleveland clinic health systems,
we can have lectures
from some of the best sub-specialists in the world.
We have access to the Cleveland clinic Sim. Center,
and we also are part of some of the Cleveland Clinic's
educational programming.
The favorite part of my residency program here's been
the ability to achieve such diverse training,
not only here on campus,
but also at the different satellite locations.
The education here is incredible,
I don't think one time during residency,
I met someone who wasn't interested in teaching me.
If you're interested in a research project,
they'll help you find it.
They give you opportunities and they really challenge you.
You really get to know everyone,
they care about you as a person,
and they care about making you a better physician.
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It's always felt like home since day one,
you walk in the door and everybody smiles at you.
Everybody's happy to see you,
and it's really easy to want to be here.
It's not just our residents working together,
we get together with our families, our spouses.
There's so many different things to do around here.
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We do have great restaurants, great bars,
a minor league baseball team.
We are very close to Cuyahoga Valley National Park,
and we hang out when we're not taking care of patients,
building those strong relationships where we enjoy
each other's company and we can rely
on each other's patient care.
I think that that's what makes our residency special.
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Being a resident at Cleveland Clinic Akron General
means you are part of what defines our long-term success.
So, the relationships you make are relationships
that you can count on really for the rest of your life.
No matter if you're the medical student,
the resident, the first year, the third year,
you always have a role.
You always have value.
This is an environment that knows you as a person,
that you'll spend quality time with faculty
in an environment that wants nothing more than you
to be successful, caring for patients,
and proud of your time with us.
As a child, I never could have imagined being a doctor
for Cleveland Clinic, but now I'm proud to say to them,
I'm part of the team,
and it just makes me excited to come to work every day,
and to be part of the greatness that occurs
within these hallways.
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