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Five physicians in Lakeside Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency Program recently graduated in a virtual ceremony following three years of training that included a new medical condition, COVID-19. The teaching hospital is located in the heart of Palm Beach County’s rural, western communities, which is considered a hot spot for the virus.
“I can’t tell you how proud I am of this class of residents,” said Darcy J. Davis, CEO of the Health Care District of Palm Beach County. “You’ve been with us during the toughest times Lakeside Medical Center has faced and fought on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. I commend you for your courage, determination and dedication to the Glades community.
The five graduates, Danny Abouekde, D.O., Samuel Espinal, D.O., David Lepoff, D.O., and Chief Residents Nergess Taheri, D.O., and Terry Parsons, D.O., completed a rigorous three-year curriculum. Their rotations included emergency medicine, women’s health care, pediatrics, psychiatry, general surgery, internal medicine, community and sports medicine, cardiology, dermatology, women’s health, radiology, orthopedics, ENT, urology, ophthalmology and critical care.
This year the residency program was accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), a distinction that assures Lakeside Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency Program meets the quality standards of the specialty or subspecialty practices for which it prepares its graduates.
