Health Education Services-Physicians Regional Medical Center - Pine Ridge Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a new, community-based internal medicine program at Physicians Regional Healthcare - Pine Ridge in Naples, FL, built around an X+Y (4+1) scheduling model that immerses residents fully in inpatient blocks while preserving a longitudinal continuity clinic with a team-based hand-off structure. Training occurs primarily in community hospital and ambulatory settings rather than a tertiary academic environment, with core faculty drawn largely from practicing hospitalists, intensivists and community subspecialists rather than research-active academicians. Scholarly activity is required but minimally so (two projects, journal club, M&M presentation), and the curriculum emphasizes board-preparation, procedural simulation, and POCUS rather than investigative research, indicating a program oriented toward producing well-rounded general internists and subspecialty-bound clinicians rather than physician-scientists. As an inaugural program, it explicitly frames its identity around mentorship, quality improvement participation, and leadership development within a community hospital system in a desirable Gulf Coast location.