New training lab for residents opens at HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital

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HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital medical residents Drs. Fru Che, Nameer Ascandar, Amatul Khan, Nancy Osadiaye-Ebomoyi and Tesnim Hamdan practice on a simulation man at the new resident training lab, which opened Oct. 5.
HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital medical residents Drs. Fru Che, Nameer Ascandar, Amatul Khan, Nancy Osadiaye-Ebomoyi and Tesnim Hamdan practice on a simulation man at the new resident training lab, which opened Oct. 5.

HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital opened its new Internal Medicine Graduate Medical Education space recently.

The 3,000 square foot space includes a high tech classroom, procedural skills lab with dozens of artificial limbs for training and a high fidelity, state-of-the-art lab with a SimMan simulator.

The hospital at 5731 Bee Ridge Road started a new program for medical residents in July with a class of 12 internal medicine residents.

The program's goal is to help meet the need for more internal medicine primary care physicians to serve the growing community.

The simulation room at the new medical resident training lab at HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital opened Oct. 5.
The simulation room at the new medical resident training lab at HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital opened Oct. 5.

The education space is in the hospital’s medical office building, next door to the main hospital. It includes training areas, sleeping areas and room for relaxation.

High tech simulators will be on display and operating. The SimMan will have an EKG, which monitors vital signs, a bronchoscope and other life mirroring options for residents to use in training.

When the residency program began July 1, Doctors Hospital became the fourth hospital with an internal medicine residency program in Manatee and Sarasota counties, joining its sister hospital HCA Florida Blake Hospital, Manatee Memorial Hospital, and Sarasota Memorial Hospital.

As the largest private hospital corporation in the country, HCA Healthcare is also the largest sponsor of graduate medical education in the country, with 337 accredited programs, 5,334 residents and fellows, and 62 teaching hospitals across 16 states.

This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital opens training lab for residents