The program’s 36 internal medicine residents will start work July 1. In three years, the program expects to grow to 96 residents, according to the report.
The residents will treat patients at the three hospitals and will also provide care at two outpatient clinics that will be established at Boca Raton Regional and Bethesda Hospital West, according to the report.
FAU’s residency program is expected to help ease the state’s physician shortage, as physicians tend to practice medicine in the same state where they were residents. Additionally, participating hospitals anticipate it will make their organization more attractive to other physicians.
“Having an academic medical center allows you to recruit the best physicians in the world,” Charles Posternack, MD, CMO of Boca Raton Regional, told the Sun Sentinel. “High-powered research physicians tend to gravitate toward academic medical centers.”
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