Officialsintroduced the four men who will help create and lead the new residency programs at the Valley's new medical school.

An affiliation agreement between The School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Doctors Hospital at Renaissance made the hiring of four residency program directors possible.

The announcement comes as DHR is in the process of building several classrooms and teaching facilities.

"When you transform from a hospital into a major teaching hospital there are requirements, classroom space, you have to have certain facilities that are enacted and a certain amount of clinics that have to be in operation," DHR CEO Israel Rocha said.

By July 2015, the first group of medical students at the Valley's new university will arrive at these buildings to begin their residency programs.

"What residency offers is the ability to under trained and experienced physicians learn how to become in my case a general surgeon," Dr. Charles Richart, new program director for the general surgery program, said.

Dr. Richart is just one of four newly appointed program directors for the new medical school.

Dr. Eron Manusov will head the Family Medicine Residency Program.

Dr. Amer Malas will head the Internal Medicine Residency Program.

Dr. John Michael Breen will head the Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program.

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Leaders of new medical school residency programs announced