Last week, two young physicians began their internal medicine residency training at HCA Florida Lake Monroe Hospital in Sanford, Florida, \u2014 another first for the Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½-HCA Healthcare Graduate Medical Education (GME) Consortium, which is one of the fastest-growing in Florida.<\/p>\n
Shaheera Nadeem and Sameh Madanieh and hospital leaders said they are inspired being part of a new Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ residency that is committed to innovation, education and providing patient-centered care to the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cHCA Florida Lake Monroe Hospital is honored and excited to partner with the Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ College of Medicine as a nationally recognized leader in medical education,\u201d says John Gerhold, the hospital\u2019s chief executive officer. \u201cThis program is important for our community to ensure there is pipeline of future physicians to serve the needs of our Central Florida community.\u201d<\/p>\n
With a new cohort of physicians who began their GME training on July 1, the Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½-HCA Healthcare partnership now has more than 620 residents and fellows training across Florida. The new residency at HCA Florida Lake Monroe Hospital is the second GME hospital partner in Central Florida. The other is at HCA Florida Osceola Hospital in partnership with the Orlando VA Medical Center in Lake Nona. This summer, the\u00a0 consortium also began its first Internal Medicine residency at HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital in the Panhandle.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am proud of our continued efforts to start new GME training programs throughout Central and Northern Florida,\u201d says Stephen Cico, Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½’s associate dean for graduate medical education and the consortium\u2019s designated institutional officer. \u201cPrimary care residency programs, such as the internal medicine residency at HCA Lake Monroe, will increase access to care for residents of the region, as well as improve care.\u201d<\/p>\n
Physicians cannot practice medicine immediately after graduating from medical school. They must complete graduate medical education training for three to seven years depending on their specialty. Residency and fellowship programs are a key to addressing Florida\u2019s physician shortage as the majority of doctors begin their practices where they did their GME training. The Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½-HCA consortium now has 39 accredited programs across the state in needed specialties including primary care, psychiatry, surgery, gastroenterology, obstetrics and gynecology, emergency medicine, rheumatology, geriatrics and endocrinology.<\/p>\n
Joshua Shultz is program director of the new internal medicine residency in Sanford, Florida. \u201cI am excited to train the next generation of internal medicine physicians and ushering in a new era of healthcare at HCA Florida Lake Monroe Hospital,\u201d he says. \u201cOur vision is to encourage as many of these trainees as possible to remain within the community after completing their residency, addressing the future healthcare needs of Seminole and West Volusia counties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nadeem says she chose internal medicine as a specialty because \u201cit\u2019s the frontline of healthcare.”<\/p>\n
\u201cAs primary care physicians we are the first stop, the ones who untangle the complex web of symptoms,” Nadeem says. “It\u2019s not about grand gestures, it\u2019s about the quiet victories \u2014 empowering patients with knowledge, guiding them through health challenges and being a partner in their well-being. It\u2019s a chance to make a real difference, one patient, one story at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nadeem and Madanieh say they were inspired by Lake Monroe\u2019s team approach to patient care and the opportunity to have so much one-on-one training with attending physicians. Both are excited to help build an innovative GME program from the ground up.<\/p>\n
Madanieh says he felt the inaugural program\u2019s excitement from his first interview at the hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt that energy from those young leaders, our faculty members,\u201d he says. \u201cAt the end of the interview day, I just felt like, \u2018I want to be there!\u2019 I ranked Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½\/ Lake Monroe Hospital first out of 19 on my list.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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