Residency News

On June 20, the Duke Family Medicine Residency Program celebrated its 2020 family medicine graduates: Cara Hall, M.D.; Nandini Kumar, M.D.; Janaka Lagoo, M.D., MPH; Adeola Phebean Oluwase, M.D., MSc; and Sameer Sood, DO.

Congratulations to Clay Cooper, M.D., MBA, and Karen Scherr, M.D., Ph.D., who were selected as co-chief family medicine residents for the 2020-21 academic year.

The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health announced today the six medical students who will be joining the Family Medicine Residency Program in July as interns. All medical students in the country learned today — Match Day — which residency program they would be joining in the 2020-21 academic year.

On June 15, the Duke Family Medicine Residency Program celebrated its 2019 family medicine graduates — Anna Afonso, M.D.,  MPH; Jessica Lapinski, DO; Alexa Mieses, M.D., MPH; Alexa Namba, DO, MPH; and Mansi Shah, M.D.

Family Medicine chief resident and resident leaders have been announced for the 2019-20 academic year.

The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health announced today the six medical students who will be joining the Family Medicine Residency Program in July as interns. All medical students in the country learned today — Match Day — which residency program they would be joining in the 2019-20 academic year.

The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health has two graduate programs ranked among the Top 10 medical training programs in the nation, announced today by U.S. News & World Report. The Duke Physician Assistant Program is ranked No. 1, tied with the University of Iowa, among 169 programs evaluated — a top spot it has held for the past 8 years.

Lamercie Saint-Hilaire, M.D., medical instructor of community and family medicine, joined the department in October as assistant program director of the Family Medicine Residency, and will be seeing patients at the Duke Family Medicine Center.

By the time Joyce Copeland, M.D., was in the third grade, she had already narrowed her career aspiration list to three options: doctor, the first woman astronaut on the moon or the first woman president.

Jessica Lapinski, DO, rising third-year family medicine resident, is a recipient of the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians Excellence in Graduate Medical Education Award. The AAFP annually awards this distinction to 12 residents across the nation. She will be formally recognized during AAFP’s Family Medicine Experience in New Orleans this October.