University of Central Florida-HCA Florida Healthcare Greater Orlando-Osceola Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based psychiatry program under the UCF College of Medicine/HCA Healthcare GME consortium, drawing its clinical experience from four distinct sites—HCA Florida Osceola Hospital, Central Florida Behavioral Hospital, the Orlando VAMC, and Nemours Children's Hospital—giving residents exposure to adult inpatient, VA, child/adolescent, addiction, forensic, and consultation-liaison psychiatry within a single curriculum. Psychotherapy is a defining structural feature rather than an afterthought: didactics begin week one of PGY1 and continue through PGY4, residents are paired with dedicated VA and Osceola psychotherapy supervisors by PGY2-3, and a formal Psychotherapy Track exists alongside training in CBT, DBT, psychodynamic, ACT, and PE modalities. Scholarly activity is supported through HCA's national research infrastructure (large patient-encounter databases, research coordinators, an open-access journal) but is framed as ACGME-standard rather than a distinguishing identity, with quality improvement projects required of every resident. The program explicitly values holistic fit, community responsiveness, wellness, and cost-effective, humane clinical practice over a research- or subspecialty-fellowship-driven trajectory, positioning graduates toward broad-based clinical psychiatric practice with strong psychotherapeutic competence.