HCA Florida Healthcare-USF Morsani College of Medicine GME - Tampa South-Largo Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based, hospital-affiliated dermatology residency at HCA Florida Largo Hospital, a statutory teaching hospital within the HCA Florida Healthcare/USF Morsani College of Medicine GME consortium, structured around a private dermatology practice model (Bay Dermatology & Cosmetic Surgery) rather than a university dermatology department. Clinical training is concentrated in outpatient community dermatology across nine practice sites, supplemented by VA (Bay Pines), dermatopathology, pediatric dermatology, and a weekly resident-run clinic serving underserved patients (including a Clearwater Free Clinic rotation), giving residents broad procedural and cosmetic exposure alongside safety-net care. The program explicitly orients residents toward independent private practice, fellowship, and board certification, with research framed as encouraged and supported (national HCA research infrastructure, journal publication track record) but not a defining institutional identity. Its structure—private-practice-based clinical sites, transplant dermatology multidisciplinary work, and a strong community-service clinic component—suggests the program values clinically productive, procedurally engaged residents who are comfortable functioning within a private-practice-style operational environment.