HCA Florida Healthcare-USF Morsani College of Medicine GME - Tampa South-Blake Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a USF Morsani-affiliated, HCA-owned community program based at HCA Florida Blake Hospital, a 383-bed tertiary-care, Level II trauma and burn center serving Manatee and Sarasota County populations, offering high-acuity exposure through medical/trauma, burn, and cardiovascular ICUs. The 4+1 scheduling model gives residents uninterrupted continuity clinic and a hospitalist-only wards structure (no competing private-practice attendings), reflecting a design oriented toward focused inpatient teaching and fellowship preparation. Scholarly activity is structured and required rather than optional, with mandatory presentation at an internal Research Day, a division research director, assigned mentors, and pathways to regional HCA research day and publication support. The presence of in-house Cardiovascular Disease, Infectious Disease, and newly launched Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology fellowships signals a program that values residents pursuing subspecialty training and offers early collaborative exposure to fellows and subspecialty faculty.