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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1489 |
| UF - VA Regional Residency Training Network |
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| Requester: |
C. Craig Tisher, MD |
Organization: |
UF College of Medicine |
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| Project Title: |
UF - VA Regional Residency Training Network |
Date Submitted |
1/11/2006 4:23:54 PM |
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| Sponsors: |
Smith |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| This funding will increase the number of residents in Florida, which will result in an increase in physicians practicing in Florida. |
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| Recipient: |
UF College of Medicine |
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Contact: |
C. Craig Tisher, MD |
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1600 SW Archer Road |
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Contact Phone: |
(352) 846-2473 |
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Gainesville 32610 |
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Contact email: |
Tisher@dean.med.ufl.edu |
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| Counties: |
Alachua |
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| Gov't Entity: |
Yes |
Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
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| Project Description: |
| These funds would increase the number of physicians working in Florida and would allow UF to form a Regional Residency Training Network with the Veterans Administration hospitals in Orlando, Gainesville, West Palm Bch, and St. Petersburg. This network would provide additional sites for residents in adult and geriatric medicine, general medicine, surgery and the mental health fields to produce more health care providers for Florida. Data show that there are insufficient numbers of physicians in Florida to provide high quality health care for the rapidly growing and continually aging population of citizens and that the majority of residents practice in the community/state where they received their residency training. Residency slots are prescribed by a national formula and Florida has fewer slots than predicted by the formula. The VA system has the ability to create new residency positions at these sites. Support for training of this program would greatly enhance Florida's chance to obtain more residency slots and could train at least 20 additional residents at each site this year. This would have a significant impact on the number of trained physicians who would be available to enter the physician workforce in Florida. |
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| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| Support for funding of this program would greatly enhance Florida's chance to obtain more residency slots and could train at least 20 additional residents at each site each year. This would have a significant impact on the number of trained physicians who would be available to enter the physician workforce in Florida. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$1,480,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$1,480,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Operations |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
None |
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Cash Amount |
$ |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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No |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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Yes |
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Amount: |
$1,100,000 |
To Fund: |
Operations |
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| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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Yes |
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Agency |
Education, Department Of |
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| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
No |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
Yes |
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Documentation: |
CEPRI Report to the Florida Board of Governors and the Florida DOH GME Deans Cmte. Report |
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| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? |
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Yes |
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Hearing Body: |
Alachua County Legislative Delegation |
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Hearing Meeting Date: |
12/14/2005 |
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| Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida? |
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No |
