HCA Medical City Healthcare GME Fort Worth Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a large (up to 15 residents/year), dually ACGME/AOA-accredited community-based internal medicine program embedded in HCA's national GME network, built around a tertiary-care referral center (Medical City Fort Worth) paired with a Level I trauma safety-net site (John Peter Smith Hospital) and ambulatory training through UNT Health Science Center clinics. The program offers a mix of inpatient acuity and outpatient continuity, with scholarly activity supported centrally through HCA's national research infrastructure (30+ million patient encounters, dedicated coordinators, HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine) rather than being an independent academic research engine. Graduates are explicitly supported toward primary care, hospital medicine, or subspecialty fellowship, indicating an open, multi-track career orientation rather than a single institutional identity. The program emphasizes resident well-being infrastructure (dedicated education/research center, "Pathways to Flourishing" wellness model) and mentorship for individualized career paths over a narrow academic or research mandate.