HCA Florida Capital Hospital is proud to announce its new Transitional Year Residency Program through the University of Central Florida/HCA Florida Healthcare Graduate Medical Education (GME) Consortium. The new program in Tallahassee will help address Florida’s physician shortage
The UCF-HCA Florida Healthcare GME Consortium is the fastest growing residency and fellowship training program in Florida, designed to address the state’s physician shortage. By June, it will be training more than 820 physicians in 49 accredited programs across Florida that have graduated almost 1,300 physicians. About 50 percent of those graduates stay in Florida to practice.
HCA Florida Capital Hospital has had a dermatology residency program since 2022. Specialties such as dermatology, anesthesiology and physical medicine and rehabilitation require residents to do a transitional year of training that emphasizes inpatient medicine, ambulatory care, emergency medicine, critical care, surgery and elective specialty experiences tailored to each resident’s future field of practice.
The program is expected to welcome its first class of 15 residents in July 2026 and interviews are complete for the incoming cohort. This new residency expands graduate medical education opportunities in North Florida and strengthens the UCF/HCA Florida Healthcare’s commitment to developing highly skilled, adaptable physicians prepared to enter specialized residency pathways.
“The launch of the Transitional Year Residency Program at HCA Florida Capital Hospital represents and exciting step forward in the continued growth of graduate medical education at our institution,” said Jack Atwater, MD, chief medical officer. “We are building a program that prepares physicians to lead, innovate and deliver exceptional care across a wide range of specialties.”
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