Dignity Health Family Medicine Residency, Northridge

PGY3 Dr. Quan with attendings Dr. Lev and Dr. Gama delivered a leap day baby! 👶🏻✨🐸📣🗓️🍼 Follow up in 4 years to see if we can keep it up! 🧡🧡🧡

Hocus Pocus let’s all focus on U L T R A S O U N D🔊

Happy Birthday CC!! 🧁 Our program alum, primary care, and urgent care extraordinaire!! 🎂🍰💜

Are we seeing double?? 👀 Unofficial Match With Your Attending Day! 👔👟

Happy Birthday Analisa!! 🩵⭐️3️⃣0️⃣🧁🩷 We love our program manager!! Thanks for everything you do for us 🤗📂💻🖊️ Also, nobody crushes cake like we do! 🍰

New photo series: “What’s on super’s desk?”
Chase Cho has nuts, gummies, protein powder, kombucha, and emotional support piñata🧡🩷🩵💛
Super clinic is when one of our PGY3s has AM and PM clinic days that functions for same day visits/acute concerns with up to 20 patients per day. It’s fast paced and requires plenty of desktop snacks! 🥜🍪🤓

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will you sponsor us? 🩵🧁

Congratulations to our newly matched Sports Medicine Fellow 2024/25 💪🏼🏈

Introducing the 2024/25 Chief Residents: Drs. Khasho & Macmillan 📣🤝🏼🎉

New year! 🎉🥂 Newly leveled up interns! ⬆️💪🏼 6 months of residency under their belts 👍🏼🗓️🩺

A few snaps from our residents Secret Santa! 🤫🎁❤️🎅🏼🦌 Receiving gifts is fun but giving is the absolute best! 🛍️🎀 No grinches here! Despite the odds, we’re all on the nice list this year! 📜🖊️

Friends are umbrellas for life’s rainy days ☔️💦☔️🤗

The pediatrics team also got in on the Santa action! 🎅🏼📸 I hear Dr Phan asked Santa for new golf clubs ⛳️ 🏌🏻 and Dr De Guia asked Santa for a new set of dumbbells 💪🏼 🏋🏻

Another Santa spotting at Dignity Health Northridge!! 🎅🏼 Inpatient team couldn’t resist a Santa photo op! 📸📸📸

Dr. Westbrook, where have you been?? You just missed Santa Claus!! 🎅🏼 🦌🎄🥛🍪 Shout out to our elves Dr Phan and Dr Rappaport for lending Santa a hand ❤️😍 Office Christmas party is always joyful!

Throw back to our retreat camp fire talent show! 🎤 🍫🍢 🔥 Filming and flash photography prohibited 🎥🚫 All we can say is you had to be there 😂👏🏼 🧡

Senior Dr Kertzner fueling his night float team with holiday drinks! ❤️☕️🥤🎄 What do gingerbread men sleep on? Cookie sheets 🍪🥁

Oh deer! 🦌 Look what Santa’s Elves dropped off from the North Pole! 🎅🏼 Advent Calendar!! 🎄❤️ 24 residents for 24 days leading up to Christmas! 🕯️🍪🎁 Can’t wait to see whats inside! 👀

Oh Hay! Just horsing around🐴🌾

If we got stranded on an island 🏝️ we’d probably be okay! 🦎🦥🪵 Impressed with our co resident’s and faculty’s climbing, archery, axe throwing, and pita bread slinging skills!

Dave & Busters for Day 1 of Retreat 🎮🎟️👾 The best moment was when we got our program director and inpatient attendings on Hungry Hungry Hippos 🦛 the second best moment was when Dr Ahuja played so hard he gave his hippo a cervical spine injury 😵 And Ashley’s husband beat the high score on basketball 🏀 💯

Celebrated 2 night float birthdays this block!! Day or night we take birthdays seriously here 🌞🌜🍰

Thankful to be in good health and good company, even if we have to work on Thanksgiving 🦃🥧🍁 Thank you to Dr Ahuja who made a giant instant pot of Japanese curry for the team! 🍛 Wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving weekend! 🧡🧡🧡 Gobble gobble until your body wobble! 🍽️

Celebrating Baby Victoria! 🩷🧸🎀🍼 Congratulations to Dr. Gama & Ariana! Our residency program just grew by two small feet 👣 💕

Introducing our new wellness initiative 🫶🏼 Strong Cores: Planks & Praise 💪🏼 Mid afternoon planks with the goal to achieve your personal best while praising your co-resident on how they live and demonstrate our program’s core values 🫀🫁❤️😮‍💨🥵

MSK Workshop! 🦴 💪🏼🦶🏼🦵🏼 🩹✂️🪣🪚 We spent the afternoon practicing complete ankle, knee, and shoulder exams and then practiced splinting and casting on each other - including sawing the casts off! 💪🏼 Thank you to Dr Ghuman and our sports fellow Dr Bui for putting on a great work shop! 😎
Minus our co-residents on vacation and night float, our monthly work shops are a fun time for all of us to learn and be together 🤗🧡📙

Imagine you’re admitted on the cardiac telemetry unit and a bunch of Disney Princesses and Prince Charming are your doctors 💖👸🏻👑🍎🎠🏰 Now imagine you’re in clinic for your Medicare annual wellness exam and your doctor is a giant stick of butter 🧈 💛 Happy Halloween from Northridge FMR!

That’s a wrap on another block! 📆 Medicine team rocking it! 🙌🏼 Led by PGY3 Dr Kertzner 👏🏼

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