The
faculty and staff of the General Surgery
Residency are dedicated to providing the
best possible surgical education in the
most pleasant environment. Our philosophy
is that our residents are primarily students
and will be treated as such. Our goal is
to produce surgeons with excellent technical
skills, a broad surgical experience, and
documented excellence in all the ACGME competencies.
Our dream is to produce surgeons oriented
toward care of the whole person and who
might consider staying in the Central Florida
community.
Mission
The General Surgery residency is committed to
serving the community, the sponsoring institution,
the faculty, staff, and resident physicians.
The mission of Florida Hospital and of the residency
program is "To extend the healing ministry
of Christ." We do so by preparing compassionate
and skilled surgeons who, we hope, will wish
to practice in Central Florida when they complete
residency training.
The
purpose of the residency is to provide a progressive,
organized educational program with guidance
and supervision facilitating the resident's
personal and professional development while
ensuring appropriate and safe patient care.
Structure
The residency program achieved accreditation
in October of 2006 and recruited its first PGY-1
interns in the spring of 2007. This Categorical
program is accredited for a total of ten residents,
accepting two physicians at the PGY-1 level
in each academic year. Training will occur primarily
at the main Florida Hospital campus in Orlando
but will include trauma and burn care rotations
at Tampa General Hospital in cooperation with
the Department of Surgery of the University
of South Florida College of Medicine as well
as time during specialty rotations at our other
Florida Hospital campuses in the immediate Orlando
area.
Continuity
of care is an integral part of residency training
at Florida Hospital, and residents see patients
for surgical consultation, as well as preoperatively
and during post-surgical/post-hospital visits.
The
academic component of training is emphasized
by a regular schedule of conferences with mandatory
attendance. Research is also a requirement of
the program and Graduate Medical Education provides
a research coordinator to assure compliance
with IRB regulations and to monitor progress
on research projects.
Affiliations
Florida Hospital has affiliation agreements
with the Florida State College of Medicine,
The University of South Florida College of Medicine,
and the Loma Linda University School of Medicine.
A relationship with the newly formed University
of Central Florida College of Medicine is anticipated.
Institution
Florida Hospital was founded in Orlando in 1908
by a group of Adventist leaders including Dr.
Lydia Parmele, the first female physician to
be licensed in the State. It has grown to become
a seven campus integrated hospital spanning
three central Florida counties. Florida Hospital
is part of Adventist Health Systems which operates
other hospitals in Florida, as well as the mid-West,
Texas and California.
The
General Surgery Program is based at the Florida
Hospital Orlando (FHO) campus. Currently in
the midst of the addition of a new patient tower
which will add about 400 beds, the campus already
provides 881 acute care beds and treats over
32,000 inpatients and almost 54,000 outpatients
annually.
The
campus also includes the Florida Children's
Hospital and the Florida Hospital Cancer Institute.
The FHCI is home to a nationally recognized
coagulation research lab under John Francis,
PhD. This lab provides research opportunities
for faculty and residents.
Outpatient
Experience
Residents will see patients in the office of
the full time faculty, Surgical Specialists
of Florida Hospital. Patient records are maintained
in an electronic medical record (EMR) system
called EPIC. This provides seamless integration
of care and communication with the other doctors
in the Medical Education Department. Additionally,
records are easy to access 24/7 from inside
and outside the hospital.
Electronic Medical Record System
Documentation of patient care is done using
an "Electronic Medical Record" or
EMR. In addition to the EMR used in the outpatient
office, EpicCare©, the resident will become
facile with the hospital medical record system,
I-Extend, a Cerner© product designed for
Florida Hospital.
Electronic
Medical Record systems have streamlined the
patient care process, improved community-wide
healthcare, and strengthened the patient-provider
relationship by making medical information available
quickly. EpicCare© and I-Extend replace
the traditional paper charts and free users
from the hassles associated with incomplete
or missing information.
Contact
Us
Please
contact our Residency Coordinator:
Katherine Newsum
Coordinator
General Surgery Residency & MIS Fellowship
2501
N Orange Ave- Suite 401
Orlando, FL 32804
