Sonora Family Medicine Residency
Hanford Sonora Family Medicine Residency Rural Training Track
Across the country, people in places like the Mother Lode often have a harder time accessing healthcare, in part due to a shortage of physicians in rural areas.
Adventist Health Sonora is working to change that. The Hanford Sonora Family Medicine Residency Rural Training Track is an accredited graduate medical education program designed to grow the next generation of rural medicine physicians right here in Sonora.
About the residency
Our program operates in partnership with Adventist Health’s Family Medicine Residency program in Hanford, California. Residents spend their first year of residency in Hanford and experience a wide variety of clinical settings and complex pathology, with an emphasis on inpatient medicine, including pediatrics and obstetrics.
The second and third years of training are spent at Adventist Health Sonora. During these years, residents build their clinical and patient care skills in the Adventist Health Sonora Rural Health Clinic, as well as at the inpatient hospital where a full range of faculty, specialists and consultants are on hand to provide residents with a comprehensive experience designed to prepare them for careers caring for and addressing the unique challenges of rural communities. Residents rotate through inpatient services in medicine, obstetrics, and surgery as well as outpatient experiences in pediatrics, women’s health, emergency department, orthopedics and sports medicine, geriatrics and population health.
A small-town medical center accomplishing big things
Adventist Health Sonora is proud to offer our community a range of advanced services which are rarely seen in rural settings. These include the Diana J. White Cancer Institute with medical oncology, radiation oncology and infusion services; an extensive orthopedics program with surgeons specializing in treatments for hand and upper extremities, sports medicine, and joint replacement; and an acclaimed spine surgery program designated by Blue Cross Blue Shield as a Blue Distinction Center. Our cardiac catheterization lab recently underwent extensive renovations and began offering percutaneous coronary intervention, the only cardiac program of its kind in our region.
Quality and performance awards:
- Ranked in the top 10% nationwide for patient safety, earning the Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award™ (2024, 2022)
- Named a Top 100 Rural and Community Hospital from The Chartis Center for Rural Health (2023)
- Achieved “A” Hospital Safety Grade from the Leapfrog Group (Spring 2023)
Live and work where you play
Just north of Yosemite National Park, Sonora boasts a variety of incredible outdoor experiences, a rich Gold Rush history and a friendly hometown atmosphere. Here in the Sierra Nevada foothills, you can live, work and play.