Officials from Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Boca Raton Regional Hospital, and Tenet’s Delray Medical Center, St. Mary’s Medical Center and West Boca Medical Center recently signed an agreement to form a Graduate Medical Education Consortium with Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine. The establishment of this consortium of healthcare providers furthers the University’s commitment to increase much needed medical residency positions in Palm Beach County, to ensure that the region will continue to have an adequate and well-trained physician workforce. Medical residencies take between three to seven years to complete depending on the specialty, and are required as part of the training for medical school graduates to become board-certified physicians.

 

The consortium will provide access to clinical settings for healthcare education, research and patient care services to support and enhance the college’s clinical training programs for residents. The consortium will also help ensure that all FAU medical students have the opportunity to interact with residents, a requirement of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the national organization that accredits U.S. and Canadian medical schools.