Many hospitals and health systems are opening new physician residency programs to expand training opportunities for medical students and bolster the pipeline of future physicians.
Below are seven hospitals and health systems launching or announcing new programs in 2025.
Note: This is not an exhaustive list. If you’d like to add a new program to the list, please email Mackenzie Bean at mbean@beckershealthcare.com. Organizations are listed in alphabetical order.
- BayCare Health System in Clearwater, Fla., will launch seven new graduate medical education programs in the 2025-26 academic year. These include the system’s first emergency medicine residency, four internal medicine programs, a transitional year program, and a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship.
- Hannibal (Mo.) Regional Healthcare System will launch an internal medicine residency program in July 2026.
- Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and the University of Central Florida are launching a transitional year residency program at HCA Florida West Hospital in Pensacola this July.
- Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pa., has received approval from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to launch a diagnostic radiology residency program.
- Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health earned accreditation for its first two obstetrics-gynecology residency programs, which will launch at Sutter Roseville (Calif.) Medical Center and Oakland, Calif.-based Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in July 2026.
- Lubbock-based Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center will open a general surgery residency program at its Amarillo campus in 2026, KAMR-TV reported Feb. 22.
- Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System is launching an obstetrics and gynecology residency program at Colquitt Regional Medical Center in Moultrie, Ga., the Marietta Daily Journal reported March 24.
