CoxHealth Family Medicine Residency welcomes class of 2018

Match Day is an annual tradition where medical school seniors learn where they will attend residency and programs across the country learn who their new residents will be. It’s a day filled with excitement as these physicians prepare to embark on the remainder of the education.

On Friday, March 20, CoxHealth Family Medicine Residency welcomed the class of 2018. The residents will begin their orientation on June 17. They are (top row, from left, followed by the bottom row):

· Aaron Buzard, MD, MPH, St. George’s University
· Blake Fulks, MD, University of Arkansas – Little Rock
· Meghan Guthrie, MD, University of Oklahoma
· Shannon Marsden, MD, University of Missouri - Columbia
· Caitlin Schmitt, DO, Kirksville School of Osteopathic Medicine
· Ken Starnes, MD, University of Arkansas – Little Rock
· Lisa Trask, DO, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
· Sarah Williams, MD, University of Missouri – Columbia

The Cox Family Medicine Residency program is the only primary care physician residency program in the Ozarks, working to train physicians who will be at the forefront of patient care.

A benefit to having a primary care physician residency program at CoxHealth is that many of the graduates choose to practice medicine in the Ozarks.