{"id":63956,"date":"2019-01-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/01\/21\/com-resident-program-director-of-the-month-10\/"},"modified":"2019-01-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T06:00:00","slug":"com-resident-program-director-of-the-month-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/01\/21\/com-resident-program-director-of-the-month-10\/","title":{"rendered":"COM resident program director of the month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Name:<\/strong> Allison Ashford, MD
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\nMedical school attended:<\/strong> UNMC
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\nLocation of your residency\/fellowship training:<\/strong>
\nUNMC medicine\/pediatrics (med\/peds) followed by a chief resident year in internal medicine
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\nWhat residency\/fellowship program at UNMC are you serving as program director for:<\/strong> Med\/peds
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\nNumber of trainees:<\/strong> 13, which will increase to 16 next year
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\nHow long have you been the program director:<\/strong> One year and a few weeks
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\nWhat made you chose to become the program director:<\/strong> 
\nThe best part of my job is teaching and mentoring residents and students, so this was a natural next step for me.  I also love the challenge and rigor of med\/peds and want to continue to improve the program and promote it throughout our university.
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\nWhat challenges do you foresee in graduate medical education in the future:<\/strong>
\nWe need to continue to financially support programs in order to produce well-trained physicians to take care of more complex and multi-morbid patients. Training health care providers to provide exceptional care to their patients while also caring for themselves is far more than clinical experience. Fitting all of those ‘extras’ can sometimes feel stressful into the already jam-packed curriculum of residency. Health care has evolved (EMR\/documentation, insurance issues, etc), and it’s important to help our trainees identify and recall the joy and privilege of this job. 
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\nWhat are the strengths of your training program: <\/strong>
\nWithout a question, it’s the people in our program. Med\/peds folks are unique by nature, and I feel honored to work and lead this group of residents. I also think we are the perfect ‘medium-sized’ combined program where we have a strong identity in both of our categorical programs, yet also have a fantastic identity all our own.
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\nList some accomplishments that you are proud of:<\/strong><\/p>\n