HCA Florida Capital Hospital recently announced its new Transitional Year Residency Program through the University of Central Florida/HCA Florida Healthcare Graduate Medical Education (GME) Consortium. HCA Florida Capital Hospital currently has dermatology, psychiatry, and internal medicine residency programs.
The UCF-HCA Florida Healthcare GME Consortium is the fastest growing residency and fellowship training program in Florida, designed to address the state’s physician shortage. By June, it will be training more than 820 physicians in 49 accredited programs across Florida that have graduated almost 1,300 physicians. About 50 percent of those graduates stay in Florida to practice.
HCA Florida Capital Hospital has had a dermatology residency program since 2022. Specialties such as dermatology, anesthesiology and physical medicine and rehabilitation require residents to do a transitional year of training that emphasizes inpatient medicine, ambulatory care, emergency medicine, critical care, surgery and elective specialty experiences tailored to each resident’s future field of practice…