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BUILDING A PIPELINE FOR

QUALITY PHYSICIANS

Marian Family Medicine Residency Program welcomes
second class of physician residents

For generations, family medicine physicians have remained the “To now be a teaching hospital welcoming our second class
backbone of health care, serving as patients’ lifetime guardians of physicians, is an exciting time for Marian,” states Richard
to coordinate all levels of care–from prenatal care to geriatrics McClaflin, MD, Marian Family Medicine Residency Program
and every stage in between. Director. “In order to bring on a second class of six new
physician residents we have developed new curriculum,
In response to the growing national shortage of family medicine added physician faculty, and greatly increased the number of
physicians, Marian Regional Medical Center embarked community specialist physicians for rotation training.”
on a landmark opportunity to build a strong primary care
infrastructure by instituting the Marian Family Medicine The Marian Family Medicine Residency Program is led by five
Residency Program. One year after the program’s inception in faculty physicians who obtain a wealth of experience in primary
July of 2014, Marian now welcomes its second class of physician care. Additionally, the program has the involvement of more
residents: six talented physicians from the nation’s leading than 50 physicians from a wide variety of specialties for rotation
academic institutions who share an inspiring passion to be the training. As a dually-accredited, three-year, post- graduate
best and brightest in their field. program, the Marian Family Medicine Residency Program is
affiliated with the Keck School of Medicine of the University of
Southern California (USC) and Western University.

Meet The New Class

The Marian Family Medicine Residency Program’s second class of six physician residents (left to right): Peggy Wu Becketti, DO, Stephen
Herrick, DO, MPH, Guy Richard Bennallack Jr., DO, MPH, Julie Brodfuehrer, DO, Nicholas Becketti, DO, MPH, and Rachel Zonca, DO.

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