July 17, 2024 – A new class of residents and fellows started their Graduate Medical Education (GME) program journey at HCA Florida Aventura Hospital on July 1, 2024. The hospital offered an exquisite banquet in their honor with faculty program directors from the various specialties greeting them. Each of the 56 residents and fellows was recognized and received an HCA Healthcare pin highlighting the Diamond Plus mark and patients being at the center of our commitment to providing the best possible care.
HCA Florida Aventura Hospital is a Florida Statutory Teaching Hospital that supports 12 residency and fellowship programs and over 170 residents and fellows. Fortune PINC/AI named HCA Florida Aventura Hospital a Top 15 Major Teaching Hospital, recognizing excellence in patient outcomes and experience, operational efficiency, financial health and community impact.
“This past recruitment season, there were 58,887 active applicants for both Main Residency Match (44,853) and Fellowship Matches (14,034) for GME programs in the United States. HCA Florida Aventura Hospital received 3,786 residency applicants and 786 fellowship applicants, resulting in nearly 8% of all GME applications nationwide.”, shared Trish Stephens, MD, Chief Medical Officer, HCA Florida Aventura Hospital. “Every opening in HCA Florida Aventura Hospital’s GME program was filled.”, Dr. Stephens added.
For the 2024/2025 academic year, HCA Florida Aventura Hospital has the following headcount of residents and fellows, representing one of the largest GME programs within HCA Healthcare:
- Cardiovascular Disease: 6 fellows
- Emergency Medicine: 36 residents
- Gastroenterology: 6 fellows
- Geriatric Medicine: 2 fellows
- Hospice & Palliative Medicine: 2 fellows
- Infectious Disease: 2 fellows
- Internal Medicine: 45 residents
- Podiatry: 6 residents
- Psychiatry: 20 residents
- Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine: 11 fellows
- Radiology: 22 residents
- Surgery (33) and Anesthesia (19): 52 residents (shared with sister facility)
- Transitional Year- 13 Residents
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