Fall 2024: The Lakeland Regional Health Emergency Medicine

We are again excited to provide an update about Lakeland Regional Health’s Emergency Medicine Residency Program for EMPulse. We have welcomed another amazing intern class of 15 residents from across the country to our program. Our faculty group continues to expand adding to it additional faculty members with a diverse background and expertise in the many niches of Emergency Medicine. We now have faculty with expertise in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Ultrasound, EMS/Pre-Hospital and Disaster Medicine, Research, Physician Advocacy, Administration, Education, Simulation, Critical Care Medicine, Combat Medicine, and Sports Medicine. Our Emergency Department continues to be an outstanding training site and provide excellent care to Central Florida. Over the 2023-2024 academic year our department has had the privilege to treat over 203,000 patient visits. This includes incredibly high patient acuity and a unique and diverse patient population that includes urban, rural populations along with pathology from both our domestic and international visitors.

Our residents continue to get excellent hands-on training and are increasingly proficient in procedural skills and critical care management. Over the 2023-2024 academic year our intern class of 15 residents are close to or have already exceeded many of their graduation goals for key index procedure numbers. These numbers include an aggregate of over 1176 medical resuscitations, 976 trauma resuscitations, 157 chest tubes, 274 central lines, 64 lumbar punctures, 498 intubations and an extensive variety of additional emergency medicine-based procedures.

This past year we are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to have hosted Polk County EMS Week, Lakeland Regional Health’s Annual Central Florida Research Symposium, and partner in a live mass casualty drill with the Polk State Paramedic Program. We look forward to these annual events again this year.

We are incredibly proud of our residents’ exponential growth and can not wait to see where this next year takes us. We look forward to connecting with our colleagues at this year’s many regional and national Emergency Medicine conferences and meeting our future residents and colleagues on the interview trail.