{"id":107761,"date":"2020-03-23T14:41:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T18:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=107761"},"modified":"2020-03-23T14:41:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T18:41:39","slug":"ucf-hca-gain-194-residents-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-hca-gain-194-residents-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF-HCA Gain 194 Residents, Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taylor Murphy \u201915<\/strong> and Marisa Taddeo met on their first day of medical school, and on Friday \u2014 as newlyweds \u2014 they became the latest residents to match into UCF residency programs with HCA Healthcare\u2019s North Florida Division.<\/p>\n

Murphy will do his internal medicine residency and Taddeo her psychiatry training at the UCF-HCA Greater Orlando residency program at Osceola Regional and the Orlando VA medical centers.<\/p>\n

The UCF-HCA consortium gained 194 residents and fellows during National Match Day, bringing its total to 487 physicians who will be in training programs this summer. Twelve UCF Class of 2020 students matched into those residencies across North Central and Central Florida in specialties including emergency medicine, orthopedic surgery, internal medicine, psychiatry and transitional year, which is required for specialties like radiology and ophthalmology. The College of Medicine began its partnership residency programs in 2014 with the internal medicine program Murphy is joining.<\/p>\n

Students nationwide learned their match results at noon. And while the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancelation of UCF\u2019s traditional Match Day celebration<\/a>, Murphy and Taddeo huddled at a computer in their Lake Nona home to get their results. They had couples-matched, meaning they only applied to programs that would accept them both \u2013 adding to the stress. UCF was their top choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very, very excited,\u201d says Murphy, who graduated with a bachelor\u2019s degree in health sciences-pre clinical<\/a> in 2015. \u201cThis makes me a UCF lifer and I couldn\u2019t be happier.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis makes me a UCF lifer and I couldn\u2019t be happier.\u201d \u2014 Taylor Murphy \u201915<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Taddeo completed her undergraduate education at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. The daughter of a psychiatrist, she entered medical school with an interest in psychiatry, neurology and caring for women and children. During her psychiatry clerkship, she realized that improving mental health allowed her to integrate all of those passions. \u201cYou could say I\u2019m going into the family business,\u201d she says, \u201cand we\u2019re so excited to be able to do our residencies together at UCF. We feel like we went to the best medical school in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

UCF partnered to form residency programs to help solve Florida\u2019s physician shortage, and Diane Davey, associate dean for graduate medical education, says she is thrilled that College of Medicine students went to so many different programs. Three UCF medical students are entering the emergency medicine residency at Osceola Regional Medical Center along with two in internal medicine, two in psychiatry and two in transitional year. One student will do emergency medicine and another in transitional year at North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville. One student will do an orthopedic surgery residency at Ocala Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n