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

Emergency Medicine Analyst Verified · Sep 25, 2026

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

HCA Florida Healthcare-USF Morsani College of Medicine GME - Tampa North-Oak Hill Hospital Program is a residency program specializing in Emergency Medicine, located in Brooksville, Florida, directed by Katia M. Lugo, MD and coordinated by Erica Calderon. and holds an accreditation status of Initial. International Medical Graduates interested in this program may contact the program coordinator directly at Erica.Calderon@hcahealthcare.com or (352) 597-3088. IMGPrep analysts have verified and compiled this program’s IMG acceptance rate, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 score requirements, Visa Sponsorship Policy, graduation year cutoff, and ECFMG certificate requirements — available to IMGPrep subscribers.

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based emergency medicine residency in Brooksville, Florida, jointly sponsored by HCA Healthcare and USF Morsani College of Medicine, built around a high-acuity but non-tertiary hospital base of roughly 62,000 annual ED visits. The program supplements its core site with Bayonet Point (a Level II trauma center) and Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital for pediatric emergency and critical care exposure, giving residents varied acuity and population settings without a single dominant academic mothership. Curriculum uses a flipped-classroom, simulation- and gamification-heavy teaching model, with core faculty bringing niche expertise in ultrasound, EMS, toxicology, wilderness medicine, and medical education, and scholarly activity is supported through HCA's national research infrastructure rather than being an independent institutional focus. With only six residents per year and close integration with sister IM, FM, transitional year, anesthesiology and podiatry programs at the same hospital, the program appears to value hands-on bedside learners who thrive in a small, tightly-knit, community-hospital training culture with an explicit institutional emphasis on resident well-being and autonomy.

Who it fits
An applicant whose ERAS narrative centers on hands-on, community-hospital emergency medicine training with interests in procedural skill-building (ultrasound, EMS, toxicology) rather than pursuing a heavily academic or subspecialty-research trajectory.
Research intensity
Moderate - research is institutionally supported through HCA's national infrastructure and encouraged, but not positioned as central to the program's identity.
Career orientation
Mixed - Community Practice, Fellowship

Emergency Medicine

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

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CURRENT RESIDENTS
Program Director
Name: Katia M. Lugo, MD
Program Coordinator
Name: Erica Calderon Email: Erica.Calderon@hcahealthcare.com Phone: (352) 597-3088 Address: ,Brooksville
Program Website
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