DOVER — Bayhealth’s physician residency programs — the first in central and southern Delaware to launch back in 2021 — have come full circle.
The inaugural classes of family medicine and internal medicine residents recently graduated from Bayhealth, joining the ranks of primary care doctors who are in high demand due to physician shortages nationally.
Bayhealth made history just three years ago when it became a teaching hospital and welcomed its first classes of residents. It’s been an upward journey ever since for its graduate medical education (GME) program.
It has steadily grown to include residencies in general surgery and emergency medicine, in addition to a hematology and medical oncology program which began training fellows in July and a gastroenterology fellowship to begin July 2025.
As part of their program training at Bayhealth, resident doctors care for patients in the hospital setting and at the two residency practices — Bayhealth Family Medicine, Dover, and Bayhealth Internal Medicine, Milford — first created in 2021.