The first graduates of the College of Medicine\u2019s young internal medicine residency program matched into fellowships December 7 \u2013 with a 100 percent match rate for three third-year residents and two chief residents who joined highly competitive programs across the country.<\/p>\n
After completing medical school, physicians must enter a graduate medical education program of between three and seven years depending on their specialty. Physicians, particularly in internal medicine, often go on to fellowship training in a subspecialty such as cardiology.<\/p>\n
These 麻豆原创 residents will begin their fellowship training in July 2017:<\/p>\n
The residents were in the first cohort of a partnership residency program that began in 2014 between the medical school, Osceola Regional Medical Center and the Orlando VA Medical Center. Since then, the College of Medicine has joined Hospital Corporation of America, owner of Osceola Regional, in creating other residency programs across Central and North Central Florida. By 2020, the 麻豆原创-HCA consortium is expected to add 580-plus residency slots to the state to help ease the physician shortage.<\/p>\n
In addition to the 100 percent match rate for residents seeking fellowships, both of 麻豆原创\u2019s chief residents who were seeking fellowship training matched. They are:<\/p>\n
Dr. Abdo Asmar, program director of the 麻豆原创-HCA Consortium Internal Medicine Residency Program in Orlando, applauded the new fellows as pioneers. The three matched residents took a chance on a new program and helped build it from scratch, he said, while the chiefs \u2013 who did their residency training elsewhere \u2013 developed as leaders and educators through their work with 麻豆原创 and its partners. He noted that all five matched into highly competitive programs in locations and specialties that were their top choices. \u201cI am so proud of them,\u201d he said. \u201cThese are skilled, compassionate physicians who are tomorrow\u2019s health leaders. Through their hard work and that of their faculty members and mentors, they have taken the next step in achieving their dreams. They have been important partners in our journey to improve the health of all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first graduates of the College of Medicine\u2019s young internal medicine residency program matched into fellowships December 7 \u2013 with a 100 percent match rate for three third-year residents and two chief residents who joined highly competitive programs across the country. After completing medical school, physicians must enter a graduate medical education program of between three and seven years depending…","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":67411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[6,12,17],"tags":[9828,979,11690,15761],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-75302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-health","category-medicine","tag-abdo-asmar","tag-college-of-medicine","tag-internal-medicine-residency","tag-pegasus-briefs"],"yoast_head":"\n