RUMFORD – Dr. Jessie Reynolds has become the first Central Maine Family Residency Program participant to enter the rural residency track at Rumford Hospital.

Reynolds completed the first year of her three-year residency at Central Maine Medical Center, and will spend the remaining two years at Rumford Hospital and Swift River Health Care. The Rural Residency track was established to afford physicians who plan to practice in a rural area the opportunity to discover what that practice is like and to develop the special skills necessary to diagnose and treat patients in a rural setting.

A graduate of Middlebury College with a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology and biochemistry, Reynolds graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 2005. While at Middlebury, she also earned a teaching certificate and later taught seventh-grade science. During medical school, she taught adult General Education Development courses.