With Florida’s two-month legislative session underway, a Virginia-based medical school trying to establish a residency program in Vero Beach is hoping to be named as one of the state’s preferred medical schools before legislators adjourn in March.
It needs that recognition in order to send its medical school grads here to do their advanced, hospital residency training at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital.
The Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, or VCOM, has been sending dozens of third- and fourth-year medical students to Vero for medical rotations for two decades. It was in the middle of planning its own Vero Beach training facility and residency program when Florida adopted a massive healthcare reform bill called the Live Healthy Act in 2024…