Shashi Sood was in her second year of the Stanislaus Family Medicine Residency Program in the early 1980s, she was pregnant with her daughter Sabrina. The Stanislaus Health Foundation is a. Agency and the Valley Family Medicine Residency Program through. All the people in Stanislaus County.

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It's the first time the county residency program has admitted the daughter or son of an alumnus since it began training family practice physicians in 1975. Although the Modesto program was one of Sabrina Sood's top choices, there was no guarantee she would get in. The program received more than 500 applications and interviewed 120 during the process of selecting nine residents for the class scheduled to graduate in 2011. After the interviews, program officials rank the candidates and the candidates rank the programs they considered, then the process is turned over to a national system for matching residents with programs. Peter Broderick, director of the Stanislaus residency program, said Sabrina Sood was one of the top choices for the program. 'We are always pleased to get an excellent resident,' he said.

'But one of our goals is to train physicians for this community. When a physician who graduates has family in the area, their likelihood of staying in the community is an added benefit.' Shashi Sood came to Modesto after graduating from medical school in India. Lfs Default Vob Files here. Her husband, Dr. Surendra Sood, was working for the Gould Medical Group. He specializes in endocrinology and nuclear medicine with the Sutter Gould Medical Foundation.

The Soods had a baby daughter when Shashi began her residency, so she had to balance being a mother with the demands of the training. She said she wore a large white coat the second year so that it wasn't obvious she was pregnant with her second child.

'When I was eight months pregnant, I was doing a surgical rotation and I was assisting with a surgery one day,' she said. 'Sabrina kicked me so hard that I moved. It caused the surgeon to stop and ask, 'What was that?' ' Her stamina was tested when residents in the internal medicine rotation were required to work 36-hour shifts at county-owned Scenic General Hospital in Modesto. She might catch a couple of hours' sleep at night if there were no admissions, but that didn't happen very often.

Since the county hospital closed in 1997, the residents have been trained at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto and also see patients in the county Health Services Agency clinics. 'It was a tough program, but I survived,' Sood said. After completing the program, she set up a solo practice in Modesto in 1983. Starting with toughest rotation As a summer job, Sabrina Sood helped out in her mother's office.

The 1999 Modesto High School graduate went to the University of California at Los Angeles and then medical school at St. George's University on the island of Grenada, where she rode out the destruction of Hurricane Ivan in 2004. She said she put the Stanislaus County program high on her list after doing a six-week rotation in family medicine here as a medical student.