HCA Florida Healthcare-USF Morsani College of Medicine GME - Tampa South-Sarasota Doctors Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based, HCA/USF Morsani-affiliated internal medicine program at Sarasota Doctors Hospital, an all-private-room, community hospital explicitly created to address a growing need for primary care providers along Florida's I-75 corridor. The curriculum emphasizes a 4+1 outpatient continuity clinic structure with a fixed patient panel across all three years, broad subspecialty exposure (cardiology, GI, nephrology, pulmonology, ID, heme/onc, palliative care), and an explicit goal of producing confident, autonomous general internists as much as fellowship-bound subspecialists. Research is present but structurally modest (roughly 5-10% of rotation time is scholarly activity), supported by HCA's national research infrastructure, journal, and coordinators rather than being a driver of program identity. The program's stated priorities—community retention, primary care pipeline development, resident well-being (via HCA's "Pathways to Flourishing" model), and both fellowship and community-practice pathways—signal a program that values well-rounded clinicians willing to serve a growing, real-world community population.