ORLANDO, FL (February 9, 2009) – Third and fourth year students attending the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine will perform some of their core rotations through clerkships at Orlando Health facilities.
Third year students will have the opportunity to rotate through internal medicine, surgery, OB-GYN, pediatrics and neurology at Orlando Health facilities. Fourth year students may rotate through emergency medicine and critical care. Fourth year students may also participate in select sub-internships and electives including cardiology, oncology, pediatric orthopedics and other subspecialties at Orlando Health facilities.
These are some of the details explained in a new addendum to the agreement between UCF and Orlando Health. The original agreement was announced in October 2007.
“This clerkship program with UCF’s College of Medicine gives some of our doctors the opportunity to become UCF faculty and teach UCF medical students at Orlando Health,” said Jay L. Falk, MD, FACEP, FCCM, vice president, Medical Education, Orlando Health. “It’s a tremendous advantage for us, for the students and for the entire greater Orlando community.”
As one of only six statutory teaching facilities in the state, Orlando Health’s graduate medical education program offers seven accredited residencies and 12 fellowships. More than 200 physician residents and fellows are enrolled in the program and more than 200 "affiliate" faculty plus hundreds more medical staff members are available and willing to help train the doctors of tomorrow.
“Embracing Orlando Health as a partner is an important part of the academic and community mission of the UCF College of Medicine,” said Deborah German, MD, dean of the College of Medicine. “It reinforces our efforts to become an integral part of the central Florida community. We appreciate OH’s support and look forward to working together as an academic medical community.”
The University of Central Florida College of Medicine was established in 2006 to increase opportunities for medical education in Florida, address the growing physician shortage nationwide, and provide economic benefits to central Florida and the state through research and technology. The college is assembling a talented and experienced faculty and developing an innovative medical school curriculum. The college will partner with many hospitals and clinics in Central Florida and will offer a doctor of medicine (MD) degree program beginning fall 2009. The college expects to enroll an initial class of 40 students and eventually produce about 120 medical graduates each year.
A recent economic study showed that the UCF College of Medicine is projected to help create more than 30,000 local jobs and have an estimated economic impact of $7.6 billion in 2017.
UCF Stands For Opportunity
The University of Central Florida is a metropolitan research university that ranks as the 5th largest in the nation with more than 50,000 students. UCF’s first classes were offered in 1968. The university offers impressive academic and research environments that power the region’s economic development. UCF’s culture of opportunity is driven by its diversity, Orlando environment, history of entrepreneurship and its youth, relevance and energy. For more information visit http://news.ucf.edu.
About Orlando Health
Orlando Health is a $1.5 billion not-for-profit health care organization and a community-based network of nine hospitals and care centers in the Orlando region. The organization, which includes the area’s only Level One Trauma Centers for adults and pediatrics, is a statutory teaching hospital system that offers both specialty and community hospitals. They are: Orlando Regional Medical Center; Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children; Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies; Lucerne Hospital; Dr. P. Phillips Hospital; South Seminole Hospital; South Lake Hospital (50 percent partnership); St. Cloud Regional Medical Center (20 percent partnership) and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando – the first affiliate of one of the nation’s premier cancer centers The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Orlando Health’s areas of clinical excellence are heart and vascular, cancer care, neurosciences, surgery, pediatric orthopedics and sports medicine, neonatology, and obstetrics and gynecology.
Orlando Health is Central Florida’s fifth largest employer with nearly 14,000 employees and more than 2,000 affiliated physicians, all of whom support our philosophy of providing high quality care and service when it matters most. We prove this everyday with over 100,000 inpatient admissions and more than 600,000 outpatient visits each year. In all, Orlando Health serves 1.6 million Central Florida residents and nearly 3,000 international patients annually. Additionally, Orlando Health provides approximately $198 million in support of community health needs. More information can be found at www.orlandohealth.com.