The
faculty and staff of the General Surgery
Residency are dedicated to providing the
best possible surgical education in a positive learning environment. Our philosophy
is that our residents are primarily students
and will be treated as such. Our goal is
to produce surgeons with excellent technical
skills, a broad surgical experience, and
documented excellence in all the ACGME competencies.
Our dream is to produce surgeons oriented
toward care of the whole person and who
might consider staying in the Central Florida
community.
Mission
The General Surgery residency is committed to
serving the community, the sponsoring institution,
the faculty, staff, and resident physicians.
The mission of Florida Hospital and of the residency
program is "To extend the healing ministry
of Christ." We do so by preparing compassionate
and skilled surgeons.
The
purpose of the residency is to provide a progressive,
organized educational program with guidance
and supervision facilitating the resident's
personal and professional development while
ensuring appropriate and safe patient care.
Objectives
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To further the development of highly competent surgeons who will, upon completion of training, deliver state of the art surgical care.
- To integrate evidence pased principles with whole person care of surgical patients through conferences, teaching rounds, educational rotations, and a well-rounded clinical exposure.
- To further the development of critical thinking by providing a rigorous research experience as an integral part of residency training.
Structure
The residency program achieved accreditation
in October of 2006 and recruited its first PGY-1
interns in the spring of 2007. This Categorical
program is accredited for a total of ten residents,
accepting two physicians at the PGY-1 level
in each academic year. Training will occur primarily
at the main Florida Hospital campus in Orlando
but will include trauma rotations
at Tampa General Hospital in cooperation with
the Department of Surgery of the University
of South Florida College of Medicine as well
as time during specialty rotations at our other
Florida Hospital campuses in the immediate Orlando
area.
Continuity
of care is an integral part of residency training
at Florida Hospital, and residents see patients
for surgical consultation, as well as preoperatively
and during post-surgical/post-hospital visits.
The
academic component of training is emphasized
by a regular schedule of conferences with mandatory
attendance. Research is also a requirement of
the program and Graduate Medical Education provides
a research coordinator to assure compliance
with IRB regulations and to monitor progress
on research projects.
Affiliations
Florida Hospital has affiliation agreements
with the Florida State College of Medicine,
The University of South Florida College of Medicine,
and the Loma Linda University School of Medicine.
We anticipate a relationship with the newly opened University of Central Florida College of Medicine for the 3rd year clerkships and 4th year electives of their students. Our faculty members hold academic appointments with both Florida State University and The University of Central Florida Colleges of Medicine.
Institution/History
Florida Hospital was founded in Orlando in 1908 by a group of Adventist leaders, one of who was Dr. Lydia Parmele, the first female physician to be licensed in the State. Today, Florida Hospital is one of the largest and busiest hospitals in the country with a broad and diverse patient base. It has grown from a 20-bed white clapboard building to become a seven campus integrated hospital spanning three Central Florida counties. Florida Hospital is part of Adventist Health Systems which operates other hospitals in Florida, as well as the Mid-West, Texas and California. We serve as a community hospital for Greater Orlando and as a major tertiary referral hospital for Central Florida and much of the Southeast, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
The General Surgery Program is based at the Florida Hospital Orlando (FHO) campus. In 2008, our Centennial year, we opened the new state-of-the-art, 15 story Ginsburg Tower, which has added 200 more private beds to our capacity and brought our campus to a total of 1080 beds. This tower has additional space to expand in the coming years to accommodate an additional 200 beds. The new tower includes the Cardiovascular Institute, and a new state-of-the-art Emergency Department with dedicated pediatric emergency facilities.
The campus also includes the Florida Hospital for Children/Walt Disney Pavilion, the Florida Hospital Cancer Institute, and the Florida Hospital Center for Thrombosis Research, a nationally recognized coagulation research lab under John Francis, PhD. This lab provides research opportunities for faculty and residents.
Residents will experience portions of their training in each of these facilities as well as at the Florida Hospital Altamonte and Florida Hospital Winter Park campuses as they progress through the required rotations that are included in the five-year training program.
Contact
Us
Katherine Newsum
Program Coordinator
Office: 407-303-7203
Fax: 407-303-2469
2501
N Orange Ave- Suite 411
Orlando, FL 32804
