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In the span of roughly five years, Memorial Healthcare System’s Graduate Medical Education (GME) program is expected to go from seeking initial accreditation to pursue a residency program to training the next generation of doctors in 11 specialties. We’re expanding as an academic medical center, and it comes at the perfect time for South Florida’s growing and aging population.
Anesthesia and OB/GYN residents will join our program next summer, followed by medical school graduates specializing in cardiology, hematology/oncology, and emergency medicine, pending certification by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Most importantly, five of the eight currently accredited programs in Memorial’s system – anesthesia, OB/GYN, neurology, psychiatry, and general surgery – are specialties where the State of Florida has identified a shortage of physicians.
Our Pembroke Pines-based academic medical center is also training doctors in pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and internal medicine, with the expectation that many of those residents will remain in South Florida after training, meaning there will be additional specialists practicing in the region in the years to come.
We’ve become a major academic player in the southeast and a place medical school graduates want to do their training. Within the next few years we expect to have nearly 300 residents enrolled in programs and serving the community at our hospitals.
One distinguishing feature of the programs we’ve launched is the emphasis on educational innovation. MHS prioritizes teaching trainees about the business of medicine and includes skills not traditionally taught elsewhere. Residents learn about financial toxicity in health care, unconscious bias, advocacy, population health, and the quadruple aim, skills that will help them succeed in a rapidly changing healthcare delivery system.
The GME program at Memorial has also been approved to provide podiatric residency training by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education and pharmacy residency training by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
