Residency Program Approved
for Palm Beach County

he Miller School has received approval for Palm Beach County’s first allopathic medical residency program, at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis and the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center.

The announcement of UM’s new internal medicine residency program came during a news conference November 2 at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. Miller School Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D., told the gathering that graduate medical education raises the level of care for everyone. “South Florida and in particular Palm Beach County will become a medical destination,” Goldschmidt said. “No longer will someone have to jump on a plane to access care somewhere else, because now the best medicine will be right in your backyard. You deserve it, and it’s the right thing to do.”

The UM Miller School of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University Internal Medicine Residency Program will welcome its first residents in July of next year, following the recent approval by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

“Over time we will expand and support our partner, Boca Raton Community Hospital, as they build their new building, and we will expand to additional hospitals as training programs that support our FAU medical campus are added,” said Jeanette Mladenovic, M.D., senior associate dean for graduate medical education. “We hope to eventually see more than 300 residents training throughout Palm Beach County in specialties such as general surgery, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology.”

Creating new residency programs has long been seen as the best possible solution to the expected physician shortage. Research has shown that almost half of the physicians who do their graduate training in an area stay and practice in that area.