HCA Florida Healthcare-St. Lucie Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital's EM residency is a community-based, HCA-network program built around individualized, mentor-driven learning rather than tertiary academic research prestige, with a 229-bed hospital base supplemented by rotations at partner sites for pediatric EM/PICU, adult ICU, and trauma/trauma ICU. The 50,000+ annual ED visits support solid procedural volume (central lines, intubation, procedural sedation), and the curriculum leans on a structured 36-month didactic framework (EMRAP CorePendium), a dedicated ultrasound curriculum, and quarterly off-site simulation at FAU. Scholarly activity is institutionally supported (dedicated research department, HCA-wide data and journal access) but framed as developmental rather than central to program identity, consistent with a program preparing graduates for community emergency medicine practice. The program explicitly frames itself as ideal for students who intend to practice in a similar community hospital environment after training, emphasizing individualized learning plans, mentorship groups, and wellness/autonomy-supportive culture (HCA's "Pathways to Flourishing" framework) over an academic or subspecialty-fellowship trajectory.