Physician Assistant (PA) Cardiothoracic Transplant Surgical Residency

PA Postgraduate Program at a Glance

• Specialty: Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Location: Orlando, FL
• Accreditation: Not ARC-PA Accredited
• Program length: 12
• Positions per year: 2 per 12-month period
• Stipend / salary: $65,000
• Benefits: "The standard AdventHealth employee health plan... Mal practice insurance will be provided. Residents will have 5-days Paid Vacation. Residents will be sent to two CME meetings. Residents will be provided lab coats. All reference material will be provided." Relocation is the resident's own responsibility. Housing stipend supplement $5,000.
• Credential awarded: "a Certificate of PA Surgical Residency Completion signed by the Program Director and Medical Director"; "designated for 50.00 AAPA Category 1 CME credits."
• Eligibility: PA-ONLY, quoted verbatim from the programme's own page: "a 12-month didactic and clinical training program for State-of-Florida licensed, and Nationally Board-Certified PAs who are specializing in cardiothoracic transplant surgery" and "Applications must be graduates of an ARC-PA accredited Physician Assistant program and be eligible for, or have passed, the NCCPA Board exam." This is the only AdventHealth postgraduate programme that is PA-only rather than APP.
• Application deadline: "Application Deadline: March 15th" — ⚠️ NO YEAR is printed on the page. The calendar continues "Interview Notification: March 20th / Interview Dates: Early April / Selection Notification: April 10th / Commitment to Program: April 20th" with the footnote "Dates are subject to change." Stored month/day only; no year has been inferred.
• How to apply: Direct application: form, $25 application fee, one-page personal statement, CV, 3 letters of recommendation (recent graduates must include one from the PA Program Director), official transcripts, then a screened interview. No match. Programme Director Bradford Ledzian, PA-C, DMSc — [email protected], 908-917-7221.
• Start date: "12-months, beginning in September, with start date varying slightly to account for timing of PA program graduation."
• Setting & rotations: AdventHealth Transplant Institute, 2415 North Orange Avenue, Suite 600, Orlando, FL 32804. Seven surgical 4-week blocks + five medical 4-week blocks + one didactic block; ICU and step-down management, independent first-assist operative skills; cadaver/suture/tying labs, CSUALS, FCCS, APACVS conference, VAD and ECMO industry training.

Not ARC-PA accredited — which is normal for PA postgraduate programs and is not a mark against this one. This specific program is not separately listed in APPAP’s member directory; verify current status with the program.

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