HCA Healthcare Sunrise Health GME-Southern Hills Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based Transitional Year program at Southern Hills Hospital in Las Vegas, part of the HCA Healthcare Sunrise GME Consortium, structured around a core of Fundamental Clinical Skills rotations (adult inpatient medicine, ICU, emergency medicine, surgery, cardiology) plus ambulatory care and four blocks of specialty electives spanning dermatology, orthopedics, nephrology, endocrinology, pain management, and more. Residents rotate alongside the sponsoring Family Medicine program, reflecting a broad-exposure design meant to prepare applicants for advanced training in fields like anesthesiology, radiology, dermatology, PM&R, or ophthalmology rather than a self-contained specialty identity. Research is institutionally supported through HCA's national infrastructure (research coordinators, access to large patient-encounter datasets, the HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine) but is not positioned as a defining or required feature of the TY year itself. The program is young (inaugural class 2018) and explicitly frames its purpose as a launching platform, valuing residents who arrive with a clear next-step specialty plan and want a flexible, elective-rich internship to support it.