NEW FAMILY PRACTICE RESIDENTS HELP PROVIDE PRIMARY CARE FOR VALLEY PATIENTS

Unique Valley Baptist Family Practice Clinic has been serving patients with faith-based care since 1996

HARLINGEN – A new class of family practice residents at Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen will help provide primary care for many Valley patients in the future.

The new first-year residents, Ryan Fisher, MD; Tracy Jo Snow Allan, D.O.; Anu John, MD; and Raul Reyes Jr., MD; are the latest in a series of more than 85 doctors who have joined the Valley Baptist Family Practice Residency Program since it began serving the Valley in 1996. The program – which sees Valley patients at a medical clinic located across the street from the Emergency Room at Valley Baptist Medical Center-Harlingen — trains family practice doctors, many of whom stay in the Valley and care for Valley patients when they graduate.

During the three-year residency following medical school, the residents receive training in all aspects of family medicine, include internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics, general surgery and general orthopedics. In addition to full-time faculty physicians in the Family Practice Residency, the residents are trained by numerous volunteer faculty physicians in the community.

Bruce A. Leibert, M.D., director of the Valley Baptist Family Practice Residency Program, says the residency program is unique because of its focus on the spiritual aspect of healing. “Christian training and working in a Christian environment is refreshing and unique,” he said. “We look not only at the body and mind but also at the spiritual nature that God has given to men and women.”

For more information on the program, contact the Valley Baptist Family Practice Residency Program and Clinic at 956-389-2440, or visit www.valleybaptistfp.com/ and http://www.valleybaptist.net/for-physicians/residency.