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Academic Year 2023-2024

Resident Salaries:
PGY-1 $66,560
PGY-2 $68,557
PGY-3 $70,614

  • Comprehensive health, vision and dental insurance for you and your eligible dependents with no monthly premiums
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Worker's Compensation
  • Professional Liability Insurance
  • Annual Educational Stipend
  • Funding to present research
  • Annual Meal Stipend
  • USMLE Step 3 or COMLEX-USA Level 3 Reimbursement
  • Resident Training License Reimbursement
  • Professional memberships in American College of Emergency Physicians and Tulare County Medical Society
  • Four weeks paid vacation/year
  • Paid sick leave & bereavement leave
  • Extensive welcome and (paid) orientation sessions that include ATLS, ACLS, PALS and NRP
  • Workplace Violence Prevention Training
  • Secure, private call rooms at Kaweah Health Medical Center
  • Free parking at all training sites
  • House staff lounge, library, kitchen and program offices adjacent to Kaweah Health Medical Center (with views East to the Sierra Nevada Mountains)
  • White lab coat provided
  • Annual program retreat
  • Employee Membership Rate at Kaweah Health Lifestyle Fitness Center
  • On-site Child Care Available for 0-5 years old at Kaweah Kids Center/Daycare
  • Resident support services including:
    • Confidential grievance reporting
    • Employee Assistance Program
    • Peer Support

Kaweah Health is Visalia’s only hospital – everything comes to us
  • 13 residents per year in the EM Residency in a 1-2-3 format
  • Fully accredited Family Medicine, Psychiatry, Surgery, Anesthesia and Transitional Year Residencies
  • Modern, recently renovated, state-of-the-art facility
  • New wing housing the recently expanded ED
  • Integrated electronic health records
  • Multiple subspecialties
  • Advanced imaging
  • New state-of-the-art ultrasound machines with an ultrasound curriculum fully integrated into the ED experience
  • Award winning centers for rehabilitation, outpatient surgery, dialysis, psychiatry, and cancer care
  • Medically underserved population

Visalia
  • Friendly community of ~141,000 with a lower cost-of-living
  • Great community amenities including:
    • Restaurants
    • Local theater
    • Music
    • Sports
  • Close to both Sequoia National Park and Yosemite National Park
  • Short drive to Central California Coast
  • Located centrally between Northern and Southern California