HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community hospital-based Transitional Year program at HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital, co-sponsored by the institution's internal medicine and family medicine departments, designed explicitly to prepare residents for advancement into categorical or advanced specialty positions (anesthesiology, radiology, dermatology, radiation oncology, PM&R). The 13-position curriculum offers broad rotational exposure (MICU, IM and FM inpatient, ambulatory medicine, emergency medicine) alongside a wide elective menu spanning dermatology, cardiology, ophthalmology, sports medicine and more, reflecting its role as a flexible launching pad rather than a specialty-defining year. Scholarly activity (QI project, research, poster/podium presentation) is a structured requirement rather than an incidental option, supported by HCA's national research infrastructure and large patient-encounter data pool. As a relatively young program (launched 2016) situated in a mid-sized acute-care hospital serving Clay County, it appears to value residents who are organized, adaptable across disciplines, and already matched to or targeting a specific advanced specialty requiring a preliminary/transitional year.