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Training Tomorrow’s Health Leaders

Wendy Sarubbi — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 16:11:39 +0000

An inaugural �鶹ӳ��ý resident — who served veterans as a chief resident and whose career goal is to cure diabetes — is the new leader of the endocrinology fellowship in greater Orlando.

Mustafa Kinaan has shown his dedication to the Central Florida community throughout his graduate medical education (GME) journey.

In 2014, he was one of �鶹ӳ��ý’s first 17 residents when the medical school began its first internal residency program in partnership with HCA Healthcare and the Orlando VA Medical Center. After graduating from the program, he became chief resident, overseeing residents at the VA. A year later, he entered �鶹ӳ��ý-HCA’s endocrinology fellowship, caring for patients at the VA and HCA Florida Osceola Hospital. In 2020, he joined Premier Endocrinology in Kissimmee and St. Cloud, saying he was staying in greater Orlando to “care for the new family I love.”

Now, he is leading the endocrinology program that trained him — creating more physicians who treat conditions including diabetes, thyroid and pituitary gland disease.

“Dr. Kinaan is the first GME trainee to go from resident in one of our programs, to fellow, to core faculty member and now to become a program director leading our endocrinology fellowship,” says Stephen Cico, the medical school’s assistant dean for graduate medical education. “Recruiting the best, training the best and retaining our residents and fellows has been a goal of the �鶹ӳ��ý-HCA GME Consortium since its inception in 2016.�� Dr. Kinaan is a skilled educator, compassionate physician and engaged faculty member — he is exactly the kind of physician we want representing our consortium in leadership positions.”

Kinaan graduated from Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar and did clerkship rotations and conducted research on the impact of diabetes on heart disease at Cornell University in New York. He says his experience helping to build new residency and fellowship programs at �鶹ӳ��ý has given him an unprecedented experience.

“You’re not just learning, you’re building the program. It was a rich environment for me. At �鶹ӳ��ý, I was given all the tools I need to help shape the future.” — Mustafa Kinaan, endocrinologist

The fellowship program currently trains four physicians per year, with fellows caring for patients in out-patient and hospital settings. While he leads the program, Kinaan continues to care for patients at Premier Endocrinology and also serves as an attending physician and faculty member at HCA Florida Osceola Hospital.

Abdo Asmar has led the Greater Orlando Internal Medicine Residency program since it began, and says he saw the young physician’s promise early in his training.

“I cannot tell you how honored and proud I am that Mustafa is our program director,” he says. “This is what we want to do with our GME programs — grow the next generation of outstanding physicians who are also extraordinary teachers. This is how we improve healthcare.”

Throughout his �鶹ӳ��ý career, Kinaan has received awards for teaching, and this year received the College of Medicine’s faculty award for outstanding GME clinical teaching and mentorship. He also helped create a new research infrastructure to better support scholarship by residents and fellows. Asmar says his mentee was an innovative and engaging teacher even as a resident – known for his compelling case review reports. “He is a learner-focused educator,” he says. “He knows how to share information based on a learner’s needs.”

As he moves forward training tomorrow’s endocrinologists, Kinaan says he is committed to building a fellowship that is recognized locally, regionally and nationally.

“Our goal is to create extraordinary physicians who have the expertise and the compassion to create long-term relationships with their patients,” he says. “Our patients have chronic illnesses, and many have suffered for years because of their conditions. We want our physicians to be passionate about endocrinology and the opportunity to be part of the patient’s support system for years to come.”

Doctors cannot care for patients independently immediately after they graduate from medical school. They must first go through residency training — three to seven years depending on the specialty. After residency, many go into fellowships for even more specialized training.

The �鶹ӳ��ý-HCA Healthcare GME consortium is one of the fastest growing in Florida, now training nearly 560 physicians in Tallahassee, Gainesville, Ocala, Pensacola and the greater Orlando area — with more planned. Residency programs are a key to solving the state’s physician shortage as the majority of physicians begin practicing where they do their residency training. �鶹ӳ��ý-HCA has 36 accredited programs in specialties including surgery, psychiatry, internal, family and emergency medicine, geriatrics, and neurology.

�鶹ӳ��ý and HCA Programs Celebrate Graduating Residents

Christin Senior — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 20:29:46 +0000

The taskforce of healthcare workers battling COVID-19 got a much-needed boost with the addition of 137 newly trained physicians who are ready to enter practice. Residents and fellows from the �鶹ӳ��ý-HCA Healthcare graduate medical education (GME) partnership graduated recently and are joining hospitals across Florida and the nation, entering private practice or advancing to additional training.

The graduates included 47 internal medicine physicians, 22 who trained in emergency medicine, three in obstetrics/gynecology, and 11 in family medicine. This year also saw the first four graduates in a new general surgery program, two from a new rheumatology fellowship, one in a new psychiatry program, and two each from endocrinology and surgical critical-care fellowships.

Abdo Asmar, �鶹ӳ��ý College of Medicine’s vice chair of the GME program, said that despite the pandemic, the program was still able to recognize ��graduates ith a ceremonies held for each region where residents were trained — Ocala, Gainesville and Orlando — and maintained social distancing guidelines with very limited guests.

The majority of residents graduated from �鶹ӳ��ý’s inaugural GME program – internal medicine in Orlando. That ceremony featured residents led by Asmar in a decorated with black-and-gold balloons and streamers driving around the Rosen Shingle Creek resort. All ceremonies were streamed live so families could participate.

“There were hundreds of people from all over the U.S. and other countries watching to see their loved ones graduate,” Asmar says. “So even though COVID-19 might have made us do things differently, I don’t think it was less impactful than what we have done in the past. I am still satisfied that we were able to send these graduates out with a bang.”

Doctors don’t practice straight out of medical school and must complete residencies for three to seven years depending on their specialty of choice. Following residency training, some enter fellowships to develop more specialized expertise.

Forty-three physicians-in-training graduated from �鶹ӳ��ý-HCA transitional or preliminary year programs that are required for specialties such as ophthalmology, dermatology and radiology before young physicians enter more specialized training.

Forty-three physicians-in-training graduated from �鶹ӳ��ý-HCA transitional or preliminary year programs that are required for specialties such as ophthalmology, dermatology and radiology before young physicians enter more specialized training.

Abdelrahman Attili was one of the first graduates of the general surgery residency program at the Ocala Regional Medical Center. He will go on to do a hepatobiliary (liver and pancreas) surgery fellowship at the Miami Cancer Institute.

“I had a great experience at �鶹ӳ��ý-HCA program,” Attili said. “The staff and faculty were really supportive and the education program was really good. We were able to do a lot of cases that augmented my operative experience here. �鶹ӳ��ý was also really supportive for research and educational conferences.”

Ambreesh Chawla, one of the first graduates of the rheumatology fellowship program at the Orlando VA Medical Center will enter private practice in Tampa. Chawla said he was thrilled to have such a memorable graduation ceremony at the Rosen center in spite of the pandemic’s limitations and said more than ever he is looking forward to serving.

“This is an extremely vital time for all physicians,” he says. “We innately enter this field to serve humanity and help save and improve the quality of lives of our patients. I think it’s a privilege to have the opportunity to serve such crucial role in such unprecedented times”

�鶹ӳ��ý and its partners created the residency and fellowship programs to help alleviate Florida and the nation’s physician shortage.��The College of Medicine’s first residency began in 2014 in partnership with HCA North Florida Division’s Osceola Regional Medical Center and the Orlando VA Medical Center.��That program led to a �鶹ӳ��ý College of Medicine-HCA consortium that now has 28 accredited residency and fellowship programs, with the newest fellowship in vascular surgery based in the greater Orlando area. Of this year’s 137 graduates, 50 are staying in Florida for further training or practice. Others are heading out of state to practice or do fellowships at places such as Cedars Sinai and the Mayo Clinic.

“We are so pleased that many of our graduates will be local to Central Florida and several of them will be faculty for our own training and medical school programs,” says Diane Davey, associate dean for graduate medical education. “This is exactly the positive impact we hoped for when we launched these programs with our hospital partners.”

With the COVID-19 pandemic, Asmar noted that it is increasingly important to have graduates joining the workforce, especially in Florida where there has been a resurgence of cases.

“COVID-19 has presented us with so much uncertainty. But amidst all this uncertainty, one thing that we know for sure is the magnitude of this pandemic’s impact,” Asmar says. “And what we need to reduce this impact is having more qualified individuals that can be available to save lives. The best way to prepare for all these uncertainties is to have well-trained people there to do the job.”

�鶹ӳ��ý-HCA Announce New Hospice/Palliative Care Fellowship

Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:07:55 +0000

A new �鶹ӳ��ý Hospice and Palliative Care Fellowship Program, based at North Florida Regional Medical Center, has received initial accreditation and is seeking immediate applicants.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medicine Education (ACGME) approved the one-year program for two fellows per year. The program will be directed by Charles Suggs who completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a secondary fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

“We hope to challenge our fellows to higher clinical excellence and leadership in the field of hospice and palliative.” –��Charles Suggs

The new fellowship is part of the �鶹ӳ��ý -HCA Healthcare consortium, which now has 24 graduate medical education programs in Central and North Central Florida accredited in the past four years. The partnership is now training over 360 residents in Gainesville, Ocala and greater Orlando and expects to add a total of 600 residency slots to the state by 2020.

“My goal is to promote high quality teaching and patient care to the fellows and our patients we serve in the community. We hope to challenge our fellows to higher clinical excellence and leadership in the field of hospice and palliative,” Suggs says.

Hospice and Palliative Care is the second fellowship, and 8th �鶹ӳ��ý-HCA program at North Florida Regional Medical Center. North Florida Regional Medical Center is a full-service medical and surgical acute care center serving North Central Florida and offering comprehensive cardiovascular care, oncology, orthopedics, neurosciences, minimally-invasive laparoscopic and robotic surgery, weight loss surgery and treatment, women’s health and wound therapy, among other services. NFRMC is a member of Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). Based in Nashville, Tennessee, HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services, comprising 178 hospitals and approximately 1,800 sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers and physician clinics, in 20 states and the United Kingdom.

The program will be looking to take residents by July 2019. Applications should be submitted through Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). Qualified applicants will be selected for interviews.

New �鶹ӳ��ý-HCA Residency Approved

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:53:10 +0000

A new Transitional Year Residency Program, based at North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville, has received initial accreditation and is seeking immediate applicants.

This program is part of the �鶹ӳ��ý College of Medicine-Hospital Corporation of America North Florida Division Consortium seeking to add more than 600 residency slots to Florida by 2020. In the last three years, the consortium has added 21 graduate medical education programs that are currently training about 250 physicians in Central and North Central Florida. The addition of the Transitional Year program will increase the number of programs to 22.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medicine Education (ACGME) approved the Transitional Year Residency program for 13 residents per the one-year program. The program will be directed by Dr. Matthew Calestino, who is also Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at North Florida Regional Medical Center.

�鶹ӳ��ý and HCA started the residency programs to help address Florida’s and the nation’s physician shortage. Dr. Calestino noted that a 2014 Florida workforce report showed that by 2025, Primary Care will be one of the physician specialties with the highest shortage – a deficit of about 2,000 physicians statewide. “The faculty, staff and residents in this new �鶹ӳ��ý/HCA Residency have the opportunity to make a major impact on healthcare in North Florida by providing more services and more practitioners in the coming years,” he said.

North Florida Regional Medical Center is a 432-bed, full service medical and surgical acute care center and one of the nation’s top performing hospitals on key quality measures as recognized by the Joint Commission. It is an accredited Chest Pain Center and a Blue Distinction Center for Knee and Hip Replacement, Spine Surgery and Bariatric Surgery.

The program will be looking to take residents by July 2018. Applications should be submitted through Veronica Stehouwer, GME Coordinator/Interim Transitional Year Program Coordinator, North Florida Regional Medical Center, at��Veronica.Stehouwer@hcahealthcare.com. Qualified applicants will be selected for interviews.

�鶹ӳ��ý, HCA Announce New Psychiatry Residency

Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:53:31 +0000

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A new Psychiatry Residency Program, based at Osceola Regional Medical Center and the Orlando VA Medical Center has received initial ACGME accreditation and is seeking immediate applicants.

This program is part of the -Hospital Corporation of America North Florida Division Consortium seeking to add more than 600 residency slots to Florida by 2020. In the last three years, the consortium has added 20 graduate medical education programs that are currently training about 250 physicians in Central and North Central Florida. The addition of the Psychiatry program will increase the number of programs to 21.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medicine Education (ACGME) approved the Psychiatry Residency program for 6 residents per year of the four-year program, for a total of 24 residents. The program will be directed by Dr. ��Martin Klapheke, Assistant Dean and Professor of Psychiatry at the �鶹ӳ��ý College of Medicine.

�鶹ӳ��ý and HCA started the residency programs to help address Florida’s and the nation’s physician shortage. Dr. Klapheke noted that a 2014 Florida workforce report showed that by 2025, Psychiatry will be the physician specialty with the highest shortage – a deficit of about 2,000 psychiatrists statewide. “The faculty, staff and residents in this new �鶹ӳ��ý/HCA Residency have the opportunity to make a major impact on mental health care in Central Florida by providing more services and more practitioners in the coming years,” he said.

Osceola Regional Medical Center is a 396-bed tertiary hospital that is part of the HCA hospital group and includes 500 affiliated physicians. The hospital had more than 18,000 annual admissions and 86,000 Emergency Department visits in the last year. Of those, 446 direct hospital admissions and about 1,400 patients to the Emergency Department needed psychiatric care. Osceola Regional offers a range of mental health programs, including inpatient, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient services

The new Orlando VA Medical Center is a state-of-the-art, 1.2 million square foot facility featuring a large multi-specialty outpatient clinic which includes a wide-range of adult psychiatry and counseling services and 130-inpatient beds that include psychiatry services. The VA also has a 60-bed domiciliary and a 120-bed outpatient living center with in-house psychiatric and counseling services, including geriatric psychiatry.

Residents will also rotate at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Lake Nona to gain experience in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

The program will be participating in the NRMP Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP). Applications following SOAP should be submitted through Krystal D. Hernandez, GME Program Coordinator, Psychiatry Residency Program, Osceola Regional Medical Center, at krystal.hernandez@hcahealthcare.com. Qualified applicants will be selected for interviews.

�鶹ӳ��ý/HCA Consortium Announces New Anesthesiology Residency

Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:16:24 +0000

A new Anesthesiology Residency Program, based at Ocala Regional Medical Center, has received initial accreditation and is seeking immediate applicants for physicians who are completing their internships and will begin second-year training on July 1, 2018.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medicine Education (ACGME) approved the three-year Anesthesiology program for a total of 27 residents – nine per year. The program will be directed by Dr. Ettore Crimi who completed his residency in Anesthesiology at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital, a Cardiac Anesthesia Fellowship at Stanford University and a Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Florida. Dr. Crimi has also completed a Research Fellowship at the University of Toronto.

The new residency is part of the �鶹ӳ��ý College of Medicine-Hospital Corporation of America consortium, which has brought 20 graduate medical education programs to Central and North Central Florida in the past four years. The partnership is now training about 250 residents in Gainesville, Ocala and greater Orlando and expects to add a total of 600 residency slots to the state by 2020.

Anesthesia residents will benefit by having rotations at multiple HCA sites — North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville and Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee – in addition to Ocala.

“My goal is to challenge our residents to strive for clinical excellence and leadership in the field of Anesthesiology,” said Dr. Ettore Crimi.�� “We envision this new residency program as an inspiring clinical environment to improve health outcomes and better serve our community.”

Anesthesiology is the sixth �鶹ӳ��ý-HCA residency program at Ocala Regional Medical Center, a 222-bed facility and Verified Level II Trauma Center. The medical center offers a variety of medical services including bariatric surgery, cardiac and vascular, emergency, neurological and rehabilitation. It is accredited by the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer, the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, the Society of Chest Pain Centers and the Joint Commission, as well as the Joint Commission’s designation as a Primary Stroke Center.

North Florida Regional Medical Center is a 432-bed, full-service medical and surgical acute care center and one of the nation’s top performing hospitals on key quality measures as recognized by the Joint Commission. It is an accredited Chest Pain Center and a Blue Distinction Center for Knee and Hip Replacement, Spine Surgery and Bariatric Surgery.

Osceola Regional Medical Center has undergone major expansion of its services and facilities, doubling in size to approximately 400 beds over the past few years.�� The hospital is a Level II trauma center and includes a Comprehensive Stroke Center, Acute Physical Medicine Rehabilitation and programs for high-risk obstetrics and behavioral health. Osceola Regional has received accreditation with commendation from the American College of Surgeons Committee on Cancer and is Joint Commission disease-specific certified in breast, colorectal, lung cancer and sepsis.

“We are committed to providing our community with quality healthcare and our growing Graduate Medical Education programs allow us to recruit, train and retain quality physicians,” says Chad Christianson, Ocala Regional Medical Center’s Chief Executive Officer, “This is outstanding news for our community, our physicians, and Graduate Medical Education as a whole.”

Applications are now open for the 2018-2019 academic year and should be submitted through ERAS. Qualified applicants will be selected for interviews. To learn more about the Anesthesia program at Ocala Regional Medical Center, please contact Jacklyn Fuller at: jacklyn.fuller@hcahealthcare.com.

College of Medicine/HCA Consortium Announces��New Transitional Year Residency Program

Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:46:17 +0000

A new Transitional Year Residency Program, based at Ocala Regional Medical Center in Ocala, FL has received initial accreditation and is seeking immediate applicants.

This program is part of a �鶹ӳ��ý College of Medicine-Hospital Corporation of America consortium seeking to add more than 600 residency slots to Florida by 2020. In the last three years, the consortium has added 17 graduate medical education programs that are currently training about 250 physicians in Central and North Central Florida.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medicine Education (ACGME) approved the Transitional Year program for a total of 13 residents who will train for one year. The program will be directed by Dr. Alan Hamza, who completed his residency at Monmouth Hospital in NJ

Specialties such as ophthalmology, dermatology and anesthesiology require medical school graduates to complete a Transitional Year Residency Program to provide them with a well-balanced, foundational educational experience before they begin specialty training.

“Educating tomorrow’s physicians is a key priority for HCA’s North Florida Division, and as the nation’s leading hospital network, we are proud to dedicate our resources and expertise to the task,” said Joel Jeffries, M.D., Vice President of Graduate Medical Education. “Together with �鶹ӳ��ý, we are committed to providing our residents with an exceptional training and mentorship experience at Ocala Regional Medical Center.”

The Transitional Year program is the fifth �鶹ӳ��ý-HCA residency program at Ocala Regional Medical Center.�� The first program, Internal Medicine, was accredited by the ACGME in 2015.

“Residency and Fellowship programs are part of the promise we made to this community,” said Dr. Deborah German, �鶹ӳ��ý vice president for medical affairs and founding dean of the College of Medicine. “If we have more residencies and fellowships, we’ll have more trained doctors in our community. We’ll become a net importer of medical talent.”

Ocala Regional Medical Center is a 222-bed facility and Verified Level II Trauma Center that offers a host of medical services including bariatric surgery, cardiac and vascular, emergency, neurological and rehabilitation services. ��It is accredited by the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer, the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, the Society of Chest Pain Centers and the Joint Commission, as well as the Joint Commission’s designation as a Primary Stroke Center

Applications are now open for the 2018-2019 year and should be submitted through ERAS. The NRMP program code is 1587999P1. Qualified applicants will be selected for interviews.

To learn more about the TY program at Ocala Regional Medical Center, please contact Melissa Lamb, Program Coordinator at melissa.lamb@hcahealthcare.com or via phone at: 352-401-8323

�鶹ӳ����ý-HCA consortium Archives | �鶹ӳ����ý News

Training Tomorrow’s Health Leaders

�鶹ӳ����ý and HCA Programs Celebrate Graduating Residents

�鶹ӳ����ý-HCA Announce New Hospice/Palliative Care Fellowship

New �鶹ӳ����ý-HCA Residency Approved

�鶹ӳ����ý, HCA Announce New Psychiatry Residency