I heard that there may be a new Emergency Medicine residency opening at UCF in Orlando. Any thoughts?
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What? Where?
That doesn't makes sense. UCF doesn't have a hospital to base it out of and the two biggest hospitals in Orlando (ORMC and Florida hospital) already have residencies. Both FSU and UCF use both of those hospitals for med student rotations.
The official word of approval is coming in January.... My mentor is one of the new faculty members in the program.
Yes, it is a separate residency through University of Central Florida at Osceola Regional in Kissimmee, FL.
There seems to be 3 new Residencies coming to Florida in 2015
Kendall
Univ of Central FL @ Osceola Regional
Univ of Miami @ Jackson Memorial
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It's about time. I remember faculty saying back in 2008 that they had been trying for a decade to get a residency program there. I guess the stars and finally aligned for them to pull it off. I imagine any program at Jackson Memorial Hospital is going to be like Kings County with residents given a lot of autonomy and the ability to see tons of pathology.
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I don't know. I feel like a program starting from an ED already fully staffed by attendings will take a while to get resident autonomy. All of the attendings are used to doing everything.
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When I was a student there, the medicine residents rotated through there and had to do a lot of work. The attendings should be used to the presence of trainees.
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Not sure how good of a EM residency/learning experience Osceola Regional could provide. Not sure what their patient volume is there, but it is a smaller hospital. ORMC is definitely the cream of the crop.
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So for those with a bit of inside information on Jackson Memorial, I have a couple questions.
- How strong do you think the program will be?
- What is your opinion on the leadership?
- What can you tell me about the patient population and volume?
- Is there anything important to know about prior to applying?
- How strong do you think the program will be?
- What is your opinion on the leadership?
- What can you tell me about the patient population and volume?
- Is there anything important to know about prior to applying?
The volume at Osceola is over 80k+ similar to ORMC.
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I went to University of Miami for medical school and had to occasionally work in the emergency department. Since I haven't been there in quite a while, I can't tell you about the current leadership. I don't know who's in charge now. The patient volume is greater than 100,000 per year with loads of pathology. People are showing up to the ED regularly from Latin America and the Caribbean with all sorts of rare diseases. You will see malaria, advanced stages of cancer, and when you rotate through the trauma center, all the gunshots and knife wounds you can handle. Also, if you speak Spanish or Haitian Creole, that's a plus.
Indeed, UCF and Osceola Regional Medical Center have a brand new emergency medicine residency, recruiting for July 2016! See website: http://ucfemergencymedicineresidency.org
