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These UCF residents will begin their fellowship training in July 2017:
The residents were in the first cohort of a partnership residency program that began in 2014 between the medical school, Osceola Regional Medical Center and the Orlando VA Medical Center. Since then, the College of Medicine has joined Hospital Corporation of America, owner of Osceola Regional, in creating other residency programs across Central and North Central Florida. By 2020, the UCF-HCA consortium is expected to add 580-plus residency slots to the state to help ease the physician shortage.
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