HCA West at Oak Hill Hospital

t’s been an electric year at the USF/HCA Florida Oak Hill EM Residency — the kind where momentum meets mission and our team just keeps leveling up. Our residents hit the ground running this academic year with advanced simulation training, ultrasound mastery, and hands-on critical care experience from day one. They didn’t just train locally — they showed up on the state and national level, competing in EM contests, representing at major conferences, and now earning a seat in the FCEP Leadership Academy. This program isn’t just building emergency physicians; it’s shaping future leaders of the specialty.

Meanwhile, our faculty continue to absolutely crush it — delivering powerhouse teaching across airway, ultrasound, toxicology, wilderness medicine, critical care, wellness, and academic scholarship. They’re presenting, publishing, innovating, and mentoring with intention. We also doubled down on resident wellness with implementation of self-determination theory — autonomy, competence, connection — because thriving physicians take better care of patients and each other. Add disaster-readiness drills, high-acuity training, and a culture that blends clinical grit with genuine camaraderie, and you get what makes Oak Hill special: a team that’s hungry, humble, growing fast, and making noise in emergency medicine for all the right reasons.

Put simply — we’re building confident clinicians, empowered leaders, and a family-level support system. The bar keeps rising, and our residents keep meeting it. Big energy. Bigger possibilities. The future of EM leadership is being trained right here.