Residency and Fellowship Programs

Introduction

At the same time that UMMSM at FAU is designing its four year medical school curriculum, a parallel process has begun to develop residency programs in Palm Beach County and the surrounding region. It is critical that as many new residency programs as possible be in place by the time that UMMSM at FAU medical students begin their clinical rotations because of the central role that residents play as teachers and role models for medical students. The creation of new residency programs in Southeast Florida is also important to ensure that UMMSM at FAU medical school graduates are able to remain in the region to complete residency training.

Residency programs in the core medical specialties considered to be essential for support of the undergraduate medical education program (general internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics and OB/GYN) will have highest priority for implementation. The potential for other desirable residency and fellowship programs in medical and surgical subspecialties, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, radiology, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, etc., is also being evaluated.

UMMSM at FAU is planning residency programs in affiliation with Boca Raton Community Hospital (BRCH), which will serve as primary teaching hospital for the regional medical campus. BRCH will build a new state-of-the art 550 bed teaching hospital on the FAU Boca Raton campus. The new hospital is scheduled to open in 2011 or 2012. BRCH residency programs are planned to begin one-two years later. Residency programs sponsored by UMMSM will also be offered through a consortium of other regional community hospitals. Plans have been submitted to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to begin the first of these new residency programs, a general internal medicine residency program at JFK Medical Center and the West Palm Beach V.A. Medical Center. Pending a favorable site visit in March, 2007, the new University of Miami Palm Beach County Internal Medicine Residency Program will accept its first residents in 2008. More information on the University of Miami Palm Beach County Internal Medicine Residency Program may be obtained by clicking on the link below.

The table below provides a preliminary time line for the development of new residency programs. The time line will be revised periodically as planning for specific residency programs proceeds.

Internal Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University

1. Schedule for Faculty Development sessions
2. Helpful Links
   • Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical (ACGME): www.acgme.org
   • Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) www.im.org/APDIM/
   • National Resident Matching Program (NTMP): www.nrmp.org