As this unprecedented academic year comes to an end, we’re very excited with the new developments at Orange Park Medical Center. We have two new ultrasound fellowship-trained emergency physicians joining us in the next few months from Brooklyn, NY. Both are trained in resuscitative transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) and will continue with formal TEE training in the fall! Speaking of ultrasound: we have over $100,000 in new equipment coming in, consisting of TEE probes, multiple new Butterfly IQ+’s, and a brand new Sonosite PX.  

We recently had a mass casualty incident exercise organized by Dr. Davis and Dr. Taylor Bosley, PGY-2 (former Army Special Forces medic and currently a doctor in the Florida Army National Guard Special Forces). This involved risk-stratifying the “injured” patients and managing multiple acute, life-threatening injuries at once. Not only did it give us a glimpse into the chaos of an MCI, but more importantly, it further reiterated how far along we have come as a program and how strong, reliable and hardworking our team is. It was a complete success in many ways! This is an event our program will be hosting annually.

Our residents have also continued to be very involved in the local community and overseas. Dr. Cody Russell has been helping out with the Jacksonville Sports Medicine Program pre-participation sports physicals, which helps kids get cleared to play sports for the year.  Multiple PGY-2’s went on international medical electives where they had extremely limited resources: Dr. Janae Fry recently returned from Kenya, where she spent her elective month providing medical care at Chogoria Hospital. Dr. Uju Eziolisa recently returned from Guatemala, where she was on a medical mission through Caring Partners International. Most importantly, we are preparing to welcome our 12 new interns to our family and we couldn’t be more excited!