The Importance of Residency

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So where are you when 9-11 happens? So I'm in residency and we're at at Balboa and 9-11. My brother called me. He's like turn the TV on It's like whoa, but he's active duty F is active duty 18 pilot and he's getting ready to get ship. You know spinning up a carrier right away and he had a lot of activity over there. And so that was always on the table They wanted us to finish residency first. The ability to teach and train and work alongside with just such great professionals in Navy corpsman was something I'll never forget.

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Dr. Matthew Provencher is one of the nation’s leading orthopedic surgeons specializing in the surgical treatment and rehabilitation of injuries to the knee and shoulder.

Captain Matthew T. Provencher, MD MBA MC USNR (Ret.), a native of Barrington, New Hampshire attended Oyster River High School in Durham, New Hampshire and then the United States Naval Academy, where he was appointed the Deputy Brigade Commander (Second in command), graduated with Distinction (Highest Honors) with a Major in Electrical Engineering, and was designated as Secretary of the Navy Distinguished Graduate. He was also inducted into Phi Kappa Phi (The National Honor Society), Tau Beta Pi (The National Engineering Honor Society), and Sigma Pi Sigma (The National Physics Honor Society). During his undergraduate years, Dr. Provencher was also a 4-year varsity oarsman and First-Team All-American at Navy and named Most Valuable Oarsman. He completed his medical education at Dartmouth Medical School where he graduated with Honors and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.

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