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ADDRESSING HEALTH NEEDS IN FLORIDA
The College of Medicine is committed to increasing
community partners to develop additional residency programs
opportunities for graduate medical education in Florida as in emergency medicine (Sarasota) and family medicine
part of its mission to be responsive to community needs. (Winter Haven).
Residency and fellowship programs influence where new
The new family medicine residency in Winter Haven will be
physicians enter practice, so more GME situated in a part of the state with a significant
in Florida means more doctors addressing rural and medically underserved population.
the state’s health-care needs. The College Joan Meek, associate dean for graduate
of Medicine is the academic institutional medical education, said the program has begun
sponsor for five accredited residency its search for a founding director as part of the
programs and two fellowship programs - preparation to submit an application for initial
located from Fort Myers to Tallahassee. provisional accreditation.
In addition, the college is working with
INTERNAL MEDICINE-TALLAHASSEE
In response to new requirements for wellness promotion Denoux, M.D., who has completed residency training, had
and burnout prevention, the program established an internal “Nutritional Nightmare: Hypoparathyroidism Secondary to
medicine wellness committee. Seeking to provide activities Celiac Disease” published in the December 2017 issue of The
and tools for residents to develop resiliency skills, it’s part American Journal of Medicine. Patel was the lead author on two
of a larger effort to create a shift in medical culture. Initial other case presentations published in 2017. In addition, he
activities have included sessions on financial planning, as well was accepted to complete a fellowship in pulmonary disease
as the discussion of tools to support emotional, mental and and critical care medicine at Orlando Health in 2018. Denoux
physical health. was recognized as teacher of the year in 2017.
Sachin Patel, M.D., third-year resident; Raymond
Shashaty, M.D., associate program director; and Philip
Gregory Todd, M.D., program director, Internal Medicine Residency
Program at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare