HCA Healthcare-TriStar Nashville-Centennial Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a newer HCA Healthcare transitional year program based at TriStar Centennial, a large tertiary care hospital in Nashville serving a rapidly growing middle Tennessee population. The curriculum balances core inpatient medicine, ambulatory clinic, emergency medicine, cardiology/ID, and neurology with a substantial 20-week elective block spanning subspecialty and procedural exposure (interventional radiology, thoracic surgery, PM&R, radiation oncology), making it well suited as a launchpad into a wide range of categorical specialties. Scholarly activity is structured but supplementary, supported through HCA's national research infrastructure (30+ million patient encounters, dedicated research coordinators, HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine) rather than being an independent academic mission. The program explicitly emphasizes resident well-being (HCA's "Pathways to Flourishing" framework) and positions itself as a flexible bridge year for residents heading into diverse categorical programs, whether at HCA sites or elsewhere.