HCA Florida Healthcare-USF Morsani College of Medicine GME-Tampa North-Oak Hill Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a newly accredited (2024), community-based HCA Healthcare anesthesiology residency academically affiliated with USF Morsani College of Medicine, based at a mid-sized community hospital in Brooksville, Florida, roughly 50 miles north of Tampa. The program builds clinical breadth by rotating residents through a network of outside sites - a Level II trauma/stroke center, a transplant/heart-failure referral hospital, two nationally ranked pediatric hospitals, a VA outpatient pain clinic, and a private chronic pain institute - compensating for the home hospital's smaller scale with volume in regional anesthesia, acute pain, and orthopedic caseload. Research is supported through HCA's centralized national infrastructure (multi-site data access, research coordinators, an in-house open-access journal) rather than being a defining institutional strength, and the program explicitly frames itself as preparing residents to enter attending practice directly while also supporting those pursuing subspecialty fellowships (cardiothoracic, critical care, chronic pain, obstetric anesthesiology). The stated program values - close-knit collegiality, engagement, professionalism, and quality-improvement contribution - alongside its inaugural status suggest a preference for residents comfortable building program identity and culture rather than joining an established, hierarchical academic department.