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View Comments BREMERTON The doctors have delivered babies. Intubated patients. Performed lumbar punctures and paracentesis procedures. They even worked the intensive care unit at the height the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the first class of practitioners have graduated from a new residency program and are ready to begin their professional careers and almost all will do so in the community where they were trained.  It s the culmination of a plan begun at the former Harrison Medical Center to head off a growing shortage of Kitsap Peninsula primary care physicians by establishing something of a baseball-like farm system of homegrown talent. It’s easier to train doctors than to try and recruit them to the area, said Dr. Michael Watson, the director of the Northwest Family Medicine Residency Program based within Virginia Mason Franciscan s ambulatory care center off Kitsap Way. Anyone who chooses our program has a higher likelihood of staying here.  

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