Hospital system scores big gains in residency program

With successful results of its family medicine residency program serving as precedent, Lee Health believes it has the prescription for addressing a shortage of medical doctors in Southwest Florida. To attract more doctors to the growing region, the hospital system will collaborate with Florida State University College of Medicine to create an internal medicine residence program at Cape Coral Hospital. 

Lee Health officials hope the results of the new program will mirror the success of its family residency effort, which welcomed its first class in 2014.