[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by champion6

Central Florida Health, which operates The Villages Regional Hospital and Leesburg Regional Medical Center, is joining forces with the University of Florida Health Shands hospital system.

The focus will be on primary care physician training but can include other specialties. The training may include residency programs, where medical school graduates train for three to five years, and rotation programs where doctors spend weeks to months practicing at the hospitals.

A benefit of training physicians locally is that those doctors are more apt to set up their private practices in the area they trained.

The partnership also could make other services offered by UF Health Shands more accessible.

I believe this is an important step in the right direction. TV Daily Sun article attached.

Thanks for posting this information. I missed it in the paper!