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Expanding Graduate Medical Educat ion in Tampa Bay
We continue to invest in Florida’s healthcare through training the next generation
of clinicians to help meet the growing physician shortages. Our Graduate Medical
Education (GME) offerings expanded with the opening of the Internal Medicine
Residency at Brandon Regional Hospital. We successfully recruited Program Directors
from several prestigious university programs including the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio State,
and the University of Kentucky to help support this growth.
For 2016, we received approval to add three additional programs including one at
Blake Medical Center in Bradenton. This will bring our total to 23 programs, training
334 physicians in needed specialties.
Brandon Regional Hospital’s Internal Medicine
residents receive their white coats in late June
2015 to kick off the program’s opening. More
than 889 applications were received for the 20
slots available in the program’s first year.
