“I really liked it when I came here as a medical student but you just never know until you are here as a resident. Now that I am here, I am glad I chose Texarkana.”

                  Brian Downen, M.D.
                            Class of 2005

“I had planned to go to another program but when I saw who in my class was coming here and met the residents that were already here, there was no doubt where I was going. When I asked my classmates why they wanted to come to Texarkana they told me that they had noticed on rotations in their senior year that Texarkana residents learned a lot and seemed to have fun doing it.”

                         Jill Bryson, M.D.
                             Class of 2008
 

“After I started private practice, it became obvious to the Internal Medicine group in town that I knew as much as they did about critical care so they put me on their call schedule. They were very impressed with my residency program.”

                        Josh Dopko, M.D.
                              Class of 2004
 

“I interviewed a lot of places and many of them in my home state of Wisconsin where there are some of the best anywhere. But I just knew that I would learn more here at AHEC-SW because the faculty had all been successful in private practice.”


                         Dan Kaiser, M.D.
                              Class of 2005

 

“ I had always thought that I would go to another AHEC to do my residency until I came here as a senior student. I knew then that there would be a change of plans.”

                McLane Simpson, M.D.
                              Class of 2008
 

“ What I really liked about this residency is that here I really get to do a lot with my hands. In my first 3 months here I learned how and gotten to do several central venous line placements, lumbar punctures, chest tubes, intubations, bronchoscopies, and GI endoscopies. It’s not required that you do them, but I like doing procedures and that is not offered at other programs where I interviewed to the degree that it is here.”

                 Michael Fakouri, M.D.
                              Class of 2008
 

“ I really think that the residency program prepared me for the boards. I scored very high and it seemed really easy to me. They asked all the stuff that we talked about in clinic and in the hospital.”

                       Amy Parnell, M.D.
                              Class of 2005