South Texas Health System aims to keep newly minted physicians in one of the nation’s most underserved regions
EDINBURG — A Rio Grande Valley residency program training 60 internal medicine physicians has won reaccreditation, a step toward filling a specialty gap that hits this region harder than most.
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education renewed its approval of the South Texas Health System GME Consortium’s Internal Medicine Residency Program, which is developed with Texas A&M University and ASAS Health and runs three years.
Internists handle complex adult conditions, but fewer medical school graduates are choosing the field. Internal medicine residents make up 24% of active U.S. residents, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. In the Valley, where physician shortages are already acute, that national trend compounds an existing problem.
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