Oak Hill Hospital

By Ryan Johnson, MD & Mohammad Razzaq, DO, PGY-2

Hello from Brooksville! A lot has been going on at Oak Hill Hospital since our last update. The most exciting news we’d like to share is that our new ED opened January 1! We have eagerly been awaiting this day over the last two years and were excited to move into our new home.

It finally seems as though things are starting to return to normal, or at least a new normal. We are seeing a return of our cold-averse patients. More and more campers pour into town every day, and condos in the area are busier than they have been in recent memory.

Our seniors and several core faculty attended ACEP in Boston last month, and from what they’ve shared with us

UF Jacksonville

By Jeanne Rabalais, MD, PGY-1 & Chris Phillips, MD, PGY-2

Fall was busy, yet exciting for our department here at Jax! Just as our new interns have started to settle in, we have turned our attention to recruitment and interview season for the Class of 2022. We have welcomed outstanding 4th year medical students to our department for their externship rotations. Additionally, we have continued with our Jax EM Sneak Peek events and have begun interviewing for Match 2022. We cannot wait to meet the next group of interns!

In October, our PGY-3 class attended the ACEP Scientific Assembly in Boston. While education and networking were a top priority, they managed to have a ton of fun as well. While the third-years were off having a good time, our second-year residents stepped into new leadership roles within the department. We have no doubt that they will be ready to run the department in the next academic year.

Finally, we have several successes to celebrate. Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Warren for matching into an EMS fellowship at Medical College of Georgia and to Dr. John Hurley for matching into a combined Addiction Medicine and Toxicology fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University! We would also like to congratulate one of our APDs, Dr. Melissa Parsons, for being named one of EMRA’s 25 Under 45 honorees for her work on gender equity, physician wellness, and physician infertility.

We here at Jax hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday season. Until next time! ■ WEST FLORIDA

had an amazing time. It was a great networking, educational, and relaxing break from the past 20 months! Several have already secured jobs or fellowships. We look forward to hearing more about their successes, and can’t believe we only have six more months together.

Residency interviews are in full swing! We’ve been fortunate enough to meet some truly stellar applicants. We would like to give a special shoutout to residents Drs. Denise Nelson and Kim Wolfe for organizing amazing pre-interview dinners. It is not easy to adapt the old traditions to our virtual reality, but they have made something special for both residents and applicants. ■

St. Lucie Medical Center

By Nicole Tobin, DO, PGY-3

We hope everyone enjoyed the holiday season! While not the year we expected, 2021 brought many challenges that only helped us all grow stronger in both our medical knowledge and practice. It has been great and encouraging to see our interns become more confident in their abilities to see and treat patients in such a short period of time.

Halfway into this year also means that our seniors are actively searching for jobs. Some have already signed their contracts for July 2022 while others patiently awaited the results of fellowship match. We cannot wait to see where everyone will end up!

Weekly didactics have gone back to inperson and it is nice to be able to see all of our co-residents at least once a week, especially with so many being on out rotations. Guest lectures continue to bring us knowledge outside of our department and are very welcome. We are also using this time to prep for the ITE, which is coming up much sooner than some of us would like.

We celebrated our annual Residency Holiday Party and white elephant gift exchange during the holiday season. With all the restrictions last year due to COVID, this is a tradition that only the current seniors have been able to experience, so we were very excited to be able to share this experience with our fellow residents. Stay tuned to find out who is lucky enough to get THE gift in the gift exchange and who wins the title for ugliest Christmas sweater! We are very excited to see what 2022 brings for us. ■