HCA Healthcare LewisGale Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based, HCA Healthcare-affiliated Transitional Year program at LewisGale Medical Center in Salem, VA, situated alongside sister Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Psychiatry residencies and a Gastroenterology fellowship, enabling interdisciplinary co-teaching. The curriculum is structured around core rotations (Internal Medicine, ICU, Surgery, Emergency Room, Ambulatory, Family Medicine, Night Float) with five elective blocks, allowing residents to tailor exposure toward their intended specialty. As part of HCA Healthcare's national GME network, the program has institutional access to scholarly activity infrastructure, though this appears as an available resource rather than a defining focus at this specific site. The program's stated mission emphasizes physician and physician-leader development within a broad, supervised clinical training model at a high-volume community hospital (70,000+ annual encounters).