The Darke County community welcomes three new resident physicians to the area to complete postgraduate training in family medicine.
These resident physicians will establish their clinic at Family Health in Arcanum and anticipate a move to the Greenville office in a year when renovations are complete.
Carlos Menendez, M.D., program director for the new residency program, has practiced medicine in Greenville for 36 years. “The residency program is a wonderful opportunity to share our exceptional rural practice experience with a new generation of physicians,” he said. “The program will also help sustain a robust physician workforce for generations to come.”
The Wright State Rural Family Medicine Residency Program’s goal is to train family medicine physicians who will establish medical practices in rural Ohio, where health systems struggle to find enough physicians to meet the needs of their communities.
Residents will spend their first year in the program training with the well-established Wright State Family Medicine Residency in Dayton, spending much of their time in the hospital at Miami Valley. The second two years will be in Greenville, where residents will care for patients at Wayne HealthCare, Family Health Services of Darke County, and other Greenville community locations.