AdventHealth Florida Tampa Program

Program Identity & Fit

AdventHealth Tampa's Internal Medicine Residency is a rapidly expanding, faith-based community teaching program embedded in a large tertiary hospital campus adjacent to academic and cancer-center neighbors (UF, Moffitt), giving residents exposure to complex subspecialty pathology through named institutes (Pepin Heart Institute, Center for Interventional Endoscopy, Taneja Center for Surgery). Clinical training emphasizes graduated autonomy under a 4+1 block/clinic schedule with no traditional call, night-float coverage, and procedural competencies including line placement and POCUS. Scholarly activity is structured but not central to identity: residents engage in QI and research projects supported by a system-wide CARE research office and compete at an annual GME Research Day, though this is presented as a curricular requirement rather than a defining output. The program explicitly values professionalism, work ethic, and whole-person ("body, mind, spirit") patient care, and is building toward a larger multi-specialty GME footprint with fellowship co-location in cardiology, GI, and critical care.