AdventHealth Florida Program

Program Identity & Fit

AdventHealth Tampa's Emergency Medicine Residency is a new, four-year, community-oriented program built around a 2:1 resident-to-attending "pod" model that emphasizes close bedside mentorship rather than a heavily research-driven academic identity. Residents train in one of the region's busiest emergency departments (census over 90,000), gaining exposure to the full acuity spectrum, supplemented by subspecialty faculty expertise in point-of-care ultrasound, toxicology, EMS/aeromedical medicine, and wilderness/disaster medicine. The explicit dual goal of preparing graduates for both academic and community-based emergency medicine, combined with structured weekly five-hour didactics, simulation, and competition participation (ultrasound, wilderness, disaster response), suggests a program valuing broad clinical versatility over narrow subspecialization. As an inaugural program (class of 2030) under a large multi-site AdventHealth GME system with institutional research infrastructure (CARE) available but not central to the EM curriculum's stated identity, it appears to prioritize clinical competence, teamwork, and adaptability over scholarly output.