CEME/GME - Postgraduate Program

Palm Beach Centre for Graduate Medical Education
Columbia Hospital, Palms West Hospital, JFK Medical Center
2201 45th Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33407

(561) 863-3910
E-mail: pbcgme@hcaheathcare.com
http://www.pbcgme.com/

Bradley S. Feuer, DO, JD
Regional Director, NSUCOM Palm Beach Academic Center
Regional DME, Palm Beach Centre for Graduate Medical Education
Joanne Guccio
Administrative DME, Palm Beach Centre for Graduate Medical Education
David Stern, DO
DME, Columbia Hospital
Roxanna Menendez, DO
DME, Palms West Hospital

The Palm Beach Centre for Graduate Medical Education is comprised of three acute inpatient hospitals affiliated with HCA Healthcare, the nation’s leading provider of healthcare services. HCA is composed of locally managed facilities that include approximately 190 hospitals and 91 outpatient surgery centers in 23 states, England and Switzerland.

• Columbia Hospital: The hub of our campus is a 250-bed acute care facility (with an 88-bed psychiatric Pavilion) accredited by the AOA as well as the Joint Commission. The sponsor of all AOA-accredited internship and residency programs in the Palm Beach Centre for Graduate Medical Education, Columbia Hospital has been actively involved in osteopathic medical education since it was founded, in 1975. With an experienced, motivated, and energetic teaching staff, Columbia Hospital boasts excellent didactics in addition to strong clinical rotations with ample opportunity for “hands-on” experience. Many of Columbia Hospital’s attendings, as well as the Regional DME and Associate DME, are themselves graduates of our training program. Columbia Hospital is the base for Internal Medicine, IM/PEDS and Dermatology Residencies.
  
  
• Palms West Hospital: Palms West Hospital is a 175 bed acute care facility with a wide variety of services geared to excellence in medical education. A recent 47 million dollar expansion has significantly increased the number of beds available, increased the capacity of the Emergency Department and opened a brand new Pediatric Unit and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Palms West Hospital is located in a younger population center of Palm Beach County, which is among one of the fastest growing communities in the country. Palms West boasts exemplary Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency, Pediatric Intensive Care, and Obstetrics/Gynecology services. Palms West is the base facility for our residencies in Family Practice, Pediatrics, IM/PEDS and Emergency Medicine.
  
  
• JFK Medical Center:A $76 million hospital expansion which has expanded JFK to a 424-bed facility. A new emergency department is triple the size of the previous facility. The new modern facility is home to 41 beds, including five trauma beds and eight fast track beds. JFK boasts excellent critical care services, and advanced neurosciences center (neurological disorders, brain and spinal surgery, pain management, sleep disorders and stroke) and a state-of-the-art Heart Institute (open heart surgery, invasive cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation). JFK Medical Center is working in cooperation with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine to begin new ACGME-accredited residency programs. These programs will offer didactic opportunities to osteopathic residents, as well.

Academic Partners

To enhance the quality of care rendered in our facilities, as well as the academic programs offered to our externs, interns and residents, The Palm Beach Centre for Graduate Medical Education has formed strategic alliances with some of the area and world’s finest healthcare organizations..

• NSUCOM/Consortium for Excellence in Medical Education (OPTI): High-tech compressed video equipment provides our programs with real-time access between Columbia and Palms West Hospitals, as well as between our hospitals and Nova Southeastern University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine and the other hospitals within NSUCOM’s Consortium.
  
  
• Veterans Administration Medical Center: The West Palm Beach VA provides primary and secondary level health care to eligible veterans in a seven-county area along Florida's Treasure Coast. Comprehensive services include medical, surgical and psychiatric inpatient care and outpatient services in each specialty. In addition, extended care services offer community residential care, adult day health care, respite and hospice in addition to nursing home care. State-of-the-art equipment and professional employees dedicated to patient-centered care distinguish this facility as first class. In additions to clinical rotations, Internal Medicine residents may take classes in Informatics at the VAMC, leading to a masters degree from Nova Southeastern University.
  
  
• The Palm Beach County Health Department serves as the clinical site for our family medicine and pediatrics residency program. This unit boasts a prototypical managed care program in which our residents are assigned families, and are responsible for the delivery of care from infants to geriatrics. The Palm Beach County Health Department hosts a dually-accredited residency in Public Health/Preventative Medicine..
  
  
• The Joseph L. Morse Geriatric Center with 280 beds, is one of the nation’s foremost private geriatric facilities, providing long-term care, short-term rehab and a hospice inpatient unit. Geriatric training is supervised by a fellowship-trained, board certified medical director.

Postgraduate Programs

Traditional Internship, Family Practice Residency, Internal Medicine, Dermatology, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

• Annual Stipend (except Dermatology):
  Traditional Internship: $38,500
  OGME2: $40,000
  OGME3: $42,000
  
  
• Benefits: Corporate health and malpractice insurance; paid vacation; meals while on duty, lab coats, CME allowance, paid CME time.

For additional information please visit the AOA Opportunities website for information on Emergency Medicine Residency, Dermatology Residency, Internal Medicine Residency, Pediatric Residency and IM/Peds Residency.