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Dear Residency Candidates,

We want to personally invite you to consider Mercy Medical Center Redding as you make your selection of a residency program.

At Mercy Redding (Shasta-Cascade) Family Medicine Residency, we offer our residents an opportunity to excel in an environment of quality and tradition.  Our residents practice at a friendly community hospital that is also a regional medical center (serving over 33,000 square miles of Far Northern California) with extensive tertiary services including:

  • OB/Level 3 NICU
  • Level II Trauma Center
  • Regional Cancer Center
  • Open Heart Surgery
  • Pediatrics including Telemedicine links to UCDavis in critical care


Our unopposed residency program, begun in 1975, utilizes a competency based educational experience that prepares you well for practice:

  • Front line responsibility on all rotations
  • Modern health centers with diverse populations
  • Strong Rural rotations and experiences
  • Dedicated faculty
  • UC Davis Affiliation
  • Medical informatics educator
  • Family environment
  • Practice opportunities upon graduation

 

With the backdrop of beautiful Mt. Shasta to the north, Mt. Lassen to the East, and the Trinity Alps to the west, Redding is an exceptional place to live.  Our location offers all the best of California with easy access to skiing, Sacramento, the Gold Country and San Francisco and low cost of living!  Ashland, Oregon, home of the Shakespeare festival, is an easy drive to the north.  Fishing, skiing, hiking, biking, culture – its all here.

Our residents receive a generous package upon acceptance:

  • Relocation allowance
  • Palm computers
  • Competitive salary and benefits
  • A fully paid orientation program


We hope you will consider our program and click here for more detailed information on our program. Click here for more detailed information

Sincerely,
Rick Barnett                                                  Duane D. Bland, M.D.
President                                                       Program Director
Mercy Medical Center Redding                     Mercy Redding Family Practice Residency