UTICA, N.Y. — Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) celebrated the graduation of 11 doctors from its Family Medicine Residency Program on June 28, bringing the total number of family physicians completing the three-year, postdoctoral training program to 338. The physicians were trained and provided care at Wynn Hospital, Sister Rose Vincent Family Medical Center, Women’s […]
UTICA, N.Y. — Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) celebrated the graduation of 11 doctors from its Family Medicine Residency Program on June 28, bringing the total number of family physicians completing the three-year, postdoctoral training program to 338.
The physicians were trained and provided care at Wynn Hospital, Sister Rose Vincent Family Medical Center, Women’s Health Services, and MVHS’s legacy hospital campuses St. Elizabeth Medical Center and Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare.
The graduates are Alexander Benitez Rodriguez, Lizeth Duenas, Osman Hamid, Mandeep S. Kataria, Asim Khan, Yousaf Khan, Ecaterina Komarnitsky, Kyaw Zay Latt, Khaing Metoe, Angel Riveron Leyva, and Scott Schumacher.
Two of the graduates are staying on to work for MVHS, where they will practice outpatient family medicine. Kataria will practice in the MVHS Herkimer Medical Office, and Latt will practice in the MVHS North Utica Medical Office.
The program started in 1975 to help attract more doctors to family medicine. It is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and is affiliated with SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Elmira, and University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford, Maine.
Historically, close to 50 percent of the program’s graduates have settled in upstate New York to practice medicine.
A graduation ceremony and dinner were held at Delta Marriott in Utica with several awards presented honoring graduates, residents, and faculty members.
