HCA Healthcare-Mercer University School of Medicine-Doctor's Hospital of Augusta Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a newly established, community-based, three-year ACGME-accredited EM residency at Doctors Hospital of Augusta (350+ beds, 40+ bed ED, 73,000+ annual visits), an HCA Healthcare facility with an academic affiliation to Mercer University School of Medicine. Training leans on high-acuity exposure through a Level II trauma designation, Primary Stroke Center status, and rotations at the nation's largest burn center (Joseph M. Still Burn Center), supplemented by a pediatric EM month at Memorial Health Children's Hospital of Savannah and an EMS block with Central EMS. Scholarly activity is structurally supported (HCA's enterprise data warehouse across 186 hospitals, biostatisticians, dedicated research director, HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine) but framed as available infrastructure rather than a defining institutional identity, consistent with a program oriented toward producing community-practice-ready emergency physicians rather than academicians. The program explicitly emphasizes building "a solid clinical foundation" and a community-based approach, with wellness/autonomy culture (HCA's Pathways to Flourishing model) as a stated institutional value.