Spotlight on Training - Florida
Broward General Medical Center Columbia Hospital Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Program Director: David Stern, DO Contact: Joanne Guccio Administrative Director of Medical Education joanne.guccio@hcahealthcare.com Mount Sinai Medical Center Mount Sinai Medical Center is the largest not-for-profit independent teaching hospital in South Florida. The hospital has over 935 beds and treats over 30,000 patients annually in its Emergency Room. Mount Sinai has a deep tradition for academics, training more than 150 residents and fellows in 21 different specialty programs. Mount Sinai is the home of our Osteopathic Internal Medicine Residency. This program is a three-year specialty track program that incorporates a rotating internship into the first year of internal medicine training. We are approved for 18 spots, six per year. The residents train closely with the allopathic internal medicine residents, sharing all educational conferences as well as many core rotations. The program is also affiliated with both Jackson Memorial Hospital and Miami Children’s Hospital; with both of these sites providing core and elective rotations. This is truly a premier residency with outstanding academic and teaching opportunities, set in both a community hospital and university setting. All of this is enhanced by the fact that the hospital is minutes from world-renowned South Beach. Northside Hospital & Heart Institute Program Director: Robert Sanchez, MD rsanchez@hvif.com Although relatively new, the Internal Medicine Program at Northside Hospital has experienced tremendous growth in the past few years and is now approved for twelve (12) positions, all of which are anticipated to be filled for the 2003-2004 academic year due to the enthusiastic endorsement of those who have participated in the program since it's inception. Northside Hospital & Heart Institute is located on the West Coast of Florida, between the beautiful St. Petersburg Beaches on the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay. It is a 288 bed, adult acute care hospital, which offers a wide variety of pathology to resident physicians who are encouraged to take a hands on approach to their education by our teaching faculty. The faculty includes AOBIM/ABIM board-certified internal medicine teaching physicians and our students and interns comment frequently on the enthusiasm shown by our teaching attendings. The program is based on a medicine floor team approach for all general internal medicine rotations and a practice based clinic experience weekly. The resident will be well prepared for ambulatory primary care medicine, general internal medicine, geriatric specialty care and preparation for subspecialty training. Our program is designed to teach and train residents to enter into the field of Internal Medicine, preparing them for board certification and to provide them knowledge they will need to both care for patients in the primary care arena and also in the environs of the hospital. It is our feeling that for an internist to be properly training in the era of the 2000's, they are best served being capable of functioning in the hospital environment, but with a good primary care base during the course of training. We provide this with ongoing, longitudinal clinic experience during the duration of the internal medicine residency. Residents at Northside Hospital & Heart Institute will experience a very strong didactic regimen that includes daily morning report/lectures/case reviews, noon lectures three days per week, journal clubs, and IM board reviews. Northside Hospital is very proud of it's Internal Medicine Residency Program which is undoubtedly of the highest caliber due to the dedication of it's staff, teaching faculty and administration to providing the best educational experience possible to the residents participating in the program. For further information contact Ira B. Azneer, DO, FACOI, Program Director or Mark C. Stine, D.O., Co-Program Director at (727) 521-5464 or email at ibama1@verizon.net. Palmetto General Hospital Sun Coast Hospital SUBSPECIALTY PROGRAMS: Gastroenterology Program Director: Rheumatology Program Director: For over a quarter of a century, Sun Coast Hospital, the largest osteopathic teaching hospital in the southeastern United States, has been at the forefront of Internal Medicine Residency education. Located on the beautiful west coast of Florida, Sun Coast Hospital is a 300-bed community hospital in Largo, and serves as the West Coast Academic Center of Nova Southeastern University (NSU-COM). A diverse patient population offers a wide variety of pathology to resident physicians. The program offers structured training in patient care and skill development and provides the patient diversity that comes from established relationships in our community. Sun Coast Hospital's Internal Medicine program is approved for 14 residents. Our teaching physician base consists of 40 AOBIM/ABIM board-certified, core internal medicine teaching faculty members. This program offers great flexibility with a broad scope of practice opportunities. The resident will be well prepared for ambulatory primary care medicine, general internal medicine, geriatric specialty care and preparation for subspecialty training. The Krug Internal Medicine Clinic, located near the Sun Coast Hospital campus, allows each resident to establish continuity of patient care in their own clinic. The clinic is staffed by 12 rotating internal medicine attending physicians. Senior residents will have the opportunity to expand this experience to a full-day clinic. Additional hospital or ambulatory-based subspecialty training may be completed through our teaching affiliations with the University of South Florida at Moffitt Cancer Center and James Haley Veteran's Hospital in Tampa. There is also a strong teaching affiliation with Bay Pines Veteran's Administration Medical Center located in Bay Pines, Florida, a key component of Sun Coast Hospital's Tampa Bay teaching network, offering many diverse training experiences. The Sun Coast Hospital Internal Medicine Residency program is fortunate to have many academically motivated attending physicians. The faculty has served as past Presidents of the American College of Osteopathic Internists and the American Heart Association. Many have academic appointments at NSU-COM and at the University of South Florida Medical School. Our faculty are regularly featured speakers at national and regional medical education conferences. The Internal Medicine program has made available to each resident a structure of formal didactic exposure that included journal clubs, morning reports, case conferences and IM board review programs as well as attending lectures. Numerous graduates of the program have been recruited into many high caliber AOA and ACGME specialty and subspecialty training programs. Sun Coast Hospital is proud to offer a long-standing premier osteopathic Internal Medicine Residency Program and is highly dedicated to train the physician's physician of the future. For further information contact Joseph J. Namey, DO, FACOI, Program Director at 727 595-2519 or email at jjnsimc@tampabay.rr.com Arizona California Connecticut Florida Illinois Iowa Massachusetts Michigan Missouri Nevada New Jersey New York Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania Texas Virginia West Virginia |