Teaching Faculty
One of the unique aspects of the training at Ventura is the diverse backgrounds of the teaching faculty. Since the residency is such an important part of the health care system, we are able to attract faculty from all specialties who come here with a desire to teach. Unlike the passive, observational style of learning that fails to engaged learners, residents learn through hands on training, always being the primary provider of care for the patients.
The faculty are divided into the Core Family Medicine Faculty, who help supervise the direction of the residency and primarily teach from the Family Care Center and also in the inpatient setting, and the Teaching faculty who compromise all the other attendings involved in teaching across the system.
Fellowships
VCMC has recently added a new fellowship position. The newly created Rural Health Fellowship is a one year fellowship intended to give additional exposure to provision of broad spectrum health care in regions of the country where resources are not as readily available. The fellow will be working primarily out of the Santa Paula hospital and clinic which is a sister hospital with the main Ventura campus.
The Obstetrics fellowship is a long standing program intended to give residency graduates additional training in operative obstetrics and gynecology in addition to outpatient training. The OB fellow is also involved in teaching on the OB service.
Our fellows for this upcoming academic year 2008-2009:
Christopher Gruber, M.D. - OB Fellow, Carolyn Morris, M.D. - Rural Health Fellow
