Hello from Sarasota! We have hit the ground running here with our inaugural class. After an educational and fun July orientation month, they have scattered to various off-service rotations. We could not have asked for a better bunch of residents to start off our program, and they already have become a tight-knit group. The faculty are excited and relieved to actually have interns after years of preparation!

It has been an exciting transition from a community ED with medical students and the occasional off-service resident to what feels like a fully academic emergency department. Between our nine interns and all our FSU and visiting students, we were suddenly walking around with true “teams” of learnings at varying levels, including our brand new emergency pharmacology residents.

Dr. Ashley Grant, our Ultrasound Director, and I have just returned after participating in the first half of the ACEP teaching fellowship in Dallas. We are excited to bring some new ideas home and look forward to collaborating with our academic EM colleagues from across the country and even the world. We plan to send all of our core faculty to this impressive course over the next few years as part of our faculty development process.

We are in the process of designing an innovative wellness curriculum and look forward to sharing these updates with you in the future. A few of our interns attended Life After Residency Retreat in September and we are excited to see some of you at ACEP 2020 in Denver. ■