Bakersfield Memorial Announces Medical Residency Program Will Start in July 2025
By John Cox, Bakersfield Memorial Hospital joined representatives of Atlanta’s Morehouse School of Medicine on Tuesday to celebrate plans for launching a medical residency program that next year will accept 10 internal medicine residents then gradually expand over time. The luncheon and presentations at Martin Luther King Community Center on South Owens Street followed the program’s approval in January by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The program has received state and local grants totaling $3 million and plans call for a physical home across 34th Street from Memorial. Attendees welcomed the program as a big step toward equity and diversity