We’ve enjoyed a bustling winter season at St. Lucie Medical Center. Our program is proud to announce Dr. Josephin Mathai as our new Medical Director in the emergency department. In addition to her tireless leadership within our residency program as Associate Program Director, she will now be spearheading our department in all of its future endeavors.

In the past few months, our program has enjoyed our quarterly SIM lab conference, where we all had the opportunity to place several transvenous pacemakers and walk through a neonatal altered mental status case. It is invaluable to have these experiences in a SIM environment, and we as a group feel more comfortable with these high-stress cases each time we go.

Many of our residents volunteered at the Marathon of the Treasure Coast in Stuart, FL in March. We are always excited and thankful to be a part of the events in our community. Additionally, several members planned on attending the annual CEME 2020 Resident Poster Competition until it was cancelled.
We also just recently had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Christopher Kuppler, a local trauma surgeon practicing at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center, for a lecture on traumatic brain injury, emergency surgical airways, and resuscitative thoracotomy. Our residency is incredibly thankful to have shared in his extensive fund of knowledge and expertise in his field.

And finally, the Match. We interviewed many distinguished and qualified candidates this year, and we are excited to meet our incoming Class of 2023! ■