OB/GYN Residency Program

• To offer an innovative training program that cultivates residents, by means of a structured educational experience and progressive responsibility under appropriate supervision to assure each resident's skill development, knowledge, and attitudes required to enter the unsupervised practice of obstetrics and gynecology and ambulatory health care for women.To offer an innovative training program that cultivates residents, by means of a structured educational experience and progressive responsibility under appropriate supervision to assure each resident's skill development, knowledge, and attitudes required to enter the unsupervised practice of obstetrics and gynecology and ambulatory health care for women.
• To provide critical evaluation, leading to graduated autonomy and mentorship. To provide critical evaluation, leading to graduated autonomy and mentorship. 
• To provide specific educational experiences geared toward the development of competence in the  provision of ambulatory primary health care for women.
• To create an educational environment that fosters scholarly activities with an emphasis on quality improvement, research, and community health to not only benefit the program but also our diverse patient population and hospital system.
• To promote a nurturing and collaborative atmosphere that encourages resident well-being, personal growth, and camaraderie.
• To provide an opportunity for residents to obtain competency to the level expected of a new practitioner as follows:
  • Patient Care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health;
  • Medical Knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical, and cognate (i.e. epidemiological and social-behavioral) sciences and the application of this knowledge to patient care;
  • Practice-Based Learning and Improvement that involves investigation and evaluation of their own patient care, appraisal and assimilation of scientific evidence, and improvements in patient care;
  • Interpersonal and Communication Skills that result in effective information exchange and teaming with patients, their families, and other health professionals;
  • Professionalism, as manifested through a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles, and sensitivity to a diverse patient population, and,
  • Systems-Based Practice, as manifested by actions that demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care and the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of optimal value.

The Graduate Medical Education Residency Program at DHR Health accepts applications through the internet-based ERAS program. The same application process applies to all Residency Programs.

Documentation submitted through ResidencyCAS portal

https://www.residencycas.com/

• Passing of USMLE/COMLEX examinations on the first attempt.
• Graduation from medical school within the last 5 years.
• Graduates of medical schools outside of the U.S. and Canada must hold a current valid certificate from the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG). 
• Meet requirements for J-1 Visa sponsorship (if applicable)

• Efraim Vela, MD –Program Director/OBGYN
• Lyuba Levine, MD, M.Msci- Faculty/ Gynecologic Oncology
• Kedak Baltajian, MD-Faculty/ Maternal Fetal Medicine
• Ayda Garza-Montalvo, MD-Faculty/ Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Rene Luna, MD- Faculty/MIGS
• Roberto Prieto-Harris MD- Faculty/ Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Adrian Salinas MD- Faculty/ Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Robert Schenken MD- Faculty/ Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
• Eduardo Robles MD- Faculty/ Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Cristela Hernandez, MD- Faculty/ Maternal Fetal Medicine
• Danielle Jimenez-Flores, MD-Faculty/ Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Hazem Kanaan MD-Faculty/ Obstetrics and Gynecology/ Obesity