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.
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.
Hospital(s) |
Residents |
Estimated Start Date* |
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General Internal Medicine |
- JFK Medical Center
- West Palm Beach VA Medical Center |
66 | 2008-2009** |
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General Surgery |
- JFK Medical Center - Bethesda Memorial Hospital |
36 | 2011-2012 |
| OB/GYN |
- Bethesda Memorial Hospital - St. Mary's Medical Center |
20 | 2011-2012 |
| Pedriatics |
- St. Mary's Medical Center - Bethesda Memorial Hospital |
36 | 2011-2012 |
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