Lakeside Medical Center Launches Family Medicine Residency Program

Lakeside Medical Center recently welcomed 10 residents from across the country to its new Family Medicine Residency Program. Lakeside Medical Center was accredited earlier this year by the American Osteopathic Association to offer the new program at a time when Palm Beach County, and particularly the rural area of the county known as “The Glades,” is seeing a critical shortage of primary care physicians. The program is funded by a $900,000 grant from the State of Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration and will train a total of 15 residency positions over three years.

 

Nearly 80 people attended the event hosted by Lakeside Medical Center and one of its community partners in the program, Nova Southeastern University, College of Osteopathic Medicine. In a moving ceremony, residents one by one donned their white doctor’s coats which were presented to them by Nikerson Geneve, DO, Family Medicine Residency Program Director and Director of Medical Education for Lakeside Medical Center. In his remarks, Dr. Geneve encouraged the residents to always strive for the best in their futures as medical professionals.