{"id":140293,"date":"2024-03-18T11:21:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T15:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293//?p=140293"},"modified":"2024-03-18T11:21:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T15:21:04","slug":"ucf-hca-programs-gain-more-than-200-new-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293//ucf-hca-programs-gain-more-than-200-new-residents/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293//","title":{"rendered":"UCF-HCA Programs Gain More Than 200 New Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCF medical student Hunter Hampton is passionate about helping people function better in their daily lives /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/u2014 especially those suffering from cancer pain. He continues to help his younger sister with physical rehabilitation after a bone cancer diagnosis several years ago forced surgeons to rebuild her shoulder./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/n

Friday, he learned he will continue on that healing path as he matched into a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at HCA Florida West Hospital in Pensacola, one of the newest programs in the UCF-HCA Healthcare Graduate Medical Education (GME) Consortium./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/n

He says he/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/u2019s excited to continue his graduate medical education with UCF and at a residency program he found innovative and passionate about education and patient care./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/u201cI was so well trained at UCF,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/u201d he says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/u201cAnd I want that stellar education to follow me in residency./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/n

Hampton is one of five UCF seniors who will do their residency training at UCF-HCA programs. With residency and fellowship programs from Pensacola to Greater Orlando, the UCF-HCA consortium is one of the fastest growing GME programs in the state and will be training more than 620 physicians by this summer. Those programs added more than 200 residents to their ranks Friday, which is National Match Day 2024, where thousands of medical students across the country learned where they will spend the next three to five years of their training./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/n

Residency programs are a key to solving Florida/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/u2019s physician shortage./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/u201cOne of our goals is to retain our students in our residencies, since we know physicians who do medical school and residency in-state are much more likely to stay in Florida when they complete their training,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/u201d says Stephen Cico, the UCF College of Medicine/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/u2019s associate dean for graduate medical education and the UCF-HCA Graduate Medical Education Consortium/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/u2019s designated institutional official./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140293/n