Samuel Wright, DO

My name is Samuel Wright. I'm from North Carolina. I graduated from Campbell University School of Osteopathic Osteopathic Medicine and I'm one of the first internal medicine residents here at San Antonio Regional Hospital, which is super exciting. For me, I started my journey into medicine, really kind of late. I graduated college. I had a degree in biology. I was interested in research, specifically in immunology. And through interacting in studies with patients, clinical trials, I learned that I really enjoyed being a part of patient care.

And during COVID-nineteen, during the pandemic, that awarded me a good opportunity to study again and apply for medical school. It's been a wonderful journey. For San Antonio Regional Hospital's first internal medicine class, a lot of the expectation I think was to try to pave the way for how the program will be in the future. Right now our schedules mostly consist of a lot of what we call floors or wards where you essentially work under a hospitalist to learn how to be of adequate physician in that role. But there's also subspecialty rotations in multiple different important fields such as neurology, pulmonology, cardiology, different areas that would be important to know not only if you're interested in those subspecialty professions, they're also important for the general hospitalist or primary care physician to understand. So they would be good rotations for us as future physicians in this community. I think a large kind of focus with the current format of residency is to prepare us to be a good physician, not only overall, which would be fantastic, but also a good physician for the, Inland Empire community. I enjoy being able to constantly learn every day when we interact with new patients and be able to be involved with multiple different aspects of care, that ability to help patients in a variety of capacity.

So to learn to be one of the charter members of really the one hundred and eighteen History of San Antonio Regional Hospital, their first residency group. It's a bit daunting because it's an exciting time and that's a lot of really responsibility I think to be put on my shoulders, but it's also very exciting because that means there's a real chance to make an impact in this hospital system and the patient population that we serve. I think the biggest key takeaway that I would like to have following residency here at San Antonio Regional Hospital is I want to become a physician who is prepared for the population that he's going to serve and having the opportunity to really be involved with such a tight knit community, a community that has such involvement in their healthcare, it's, really phenomenal.