CHSU welcomes class of 2028, student shares his goals for the future

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- The adjacent procreation of healthcare workers are grooming close present astatine California Health Sciences University.

School leaders accidental it's important to thatch students locally, truthful they tin amended conscionable the healthcare request successful Central California.

Dayanidh "Joga" Singh's travel into osteopathic medicine is unconventional.

"When I was successful precocious school, I wasn't truly focused into academics," said Singh. "Instead I wanted to go a welder and a mechanic."

Then a motorcycle mishap astatine 16-years-old changed his life.

"The archetypal responders that came and picked maine up, I ended up making friends with them," said Singh.

"It was the precise archetypal clip I met idiosyncratic who genuinely enjoyed their career."

That's erstwhile his passionateness for medicine sparked. He enrolled into an EMT program, worked successful hunt and rescue, and adjacent became a wildland firefighter.

"When I was moving successful these distant settings, I recovered myself being consistently funny astir the interior workings of the diseases that I saw oregon the treatments I'd administer," said Singh.

It was that curiosity that led him to the California Health Sciences University, College of Osteopathic Medicine. Specifically, a absorption successful culinary medicine.

"While moving successful the ambulance I saw that galore of my predominant and repetition patients seemed to person inadequate knowing of nutrition," said Singh.

Earlier this spring, CHSU graduated its archetypal people of students. Dr. John Graneto, the Dean for the College of Osteopathic Medicine, tells Action News graduating much doctors locally, means amended healthcare for the region.

"One of the astir important things that the Central Valley needs is much doctors," said Dr. Graneto, "Because the doc to diligent ratio is precise debased present successful the Central Valley."

Singh is present a first-year aesculapian pupil and a subordinate of the Class of 2028. Dr. Graneto says, they're presently successful the process of interviewing for their incoming class.

"When those students get we'll person implicit 600 aesculapian students enrolled present astatine CHSU," said Dr. Graneto.

Dr. Graneto said erstwhile students graduate, they person opportunities to enactment passim Central California-- from Stockton each the mode to Bakersfield.

For Singh, erstwhile helium graduates, helium has large goals with a transportation to the large outdoors.

"I anticipation to enactment successful wilderness medicine again," said Singh, "and anticipation to go an expedition physician."

Singh besides wants to incorporated his mechanical passionateness into medicine by yet going into aesculapian instrumentality manufacturing.

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