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Spring 2024

Since the conclusion of the pandemic, our philosophy towards medical education has also evolved. Graduate medical education represents a period of transition within the continuum of medical education. To identify the best residents, we need to recognize the most motivated medical students. Led by the efforts of our Associate DIO, Ms. Marina Avalos-Kegley, we have collaborated with our partners, including Bakersfield College, California State University, Bakersfield, and Western University of Health Sciences to create linkage agreements that provide well defined pathways for local area students to seek a career in medicine. Our recruitment efforts will identify students who can achieve their undergraduate studies locally, apply to and be accepted to Western University for medical education through the linkage agreements, complete clinical clerkships at Kern Medical, and then competitively match into our residency programs. Such a pathway

allows our local students to remain in our community and complete both their undergraduate and graduate medical education within the state. These efforts will only bolster our ability to further recruit and retain local talent into the community. In addition to our ongoing collaboration with Western University, we continue to host medical students from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Starting this summer, we will also host medical students from the Keck School of Medicine of USC. We will have a diverse and rich clinical learning environment that includes nearly 125 rotating medical students and over 110 residents and fellows. Indeed the future of medical education at Kern Medical remains bright! Please join me by supporting our efforts through our Alumni Association.

240+ Medical Students, Residents and Fellows

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Internal Medicine

Emergency Medicine

Psychiatry

Clinical Pharmacy

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

Infectious Disease Fellows

Addiction Psychiatry Fellow

Obstetrics & Gynecology

General Surgery Residency

Addiction Medicine Fellowship

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