McLaren Port Huron, part of statewide McLaren Health Care and the leading regional health care provider, has again expanded its Graduate Medical Education department with the additional of a Transitional Year program upon accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
A one-year program, residents in the Transitional Year will be provided with experience in a range of clinical specialties to aid a resident in committing to a clinical discipline or serving a prerequisite prior to a specialized residency program in order to gain clinical experience.
The program’s five residents will accompany attending primary care physicians as they care for patients at the McLaren Port Huron Academic Center for Internal Medicine as well as the main campus of McLaren Port Huron.
McLaren Port Huron internist Dr. Myuren Gunaratnam will administer the program as its director, with family physician Dr. Hira Khan, internist Dr. Sivateja Mandava, and internist Dr. Hnin Lwin serving as core faculty.
“It has been exciting to see this inaugural Graduate Medical Education program year, and we are very pleased that its success has led to another expansion,” said Eric Cecava, McLaren Port Huron President and CEO. “Adding this program is representative of our ongoing commitment to development the future health care providers of our area and create an environment that supports their growth and further advance the care our organization provides our community.”
Less than a year after it was established, the McLaren Port Huron GME department’s introduction of this latest program will again increase the number of providers through the hospital and further enhance patients’ access to timely health care.
McLaren Port Huron launched its GME department in early 2024 following the accreditation of an Internal Medicine program, which was followed closely by its first expansion — an accredited Family Medicine program.
The hospital welcomed the departments’ inaugural classes for each three-year program on July 1, 2024 — six internal medicine residents and four family medicine residents.
About McLaren Port Huron
McLaren Port Huron is a 186-bed non-profit hospital located in Port Huron, Michigan, with a strong history of providing quality, compassionate care to residents living in St. Clair and Sanilac counties. It has earned repeated recognition for both clinical excellence and patient safety from nationally renowned health care rating organizations. McLaren Port Huron provides a full range of services, including cardiovascular care, award-winning cancer services through the Karmanos Cancer Institute, orthopedic services, and general, bariatric and robotic-assisted surgeries. The hospital is nationally verified as a Level III Trauma Center and operates the busiest Emergency Department in St. Clair County. Other services include family birthing services and the only accredited sleep center in the region. In addition to its main campus in Port Huron, the hospital operates community health centers in Marysville, Yale, Lexington, and St. Clair. Learn more at mclaren.org/porthuron.
About McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. McLaren has 28,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. Learn more at mclaren.org.