Shaping Future Leaders: AdventHealth’s Leadership Residency
The AdventHealth Leadership Residency is a three-year program that gives residents the opportunity to coordinate special projects and interact with leaders at all levels of the organization. Residents will receive specialized leadership development training that is aligned with our mission-focused culture, and they will be challenged in ways that will help them learn and grow into future leaders.
This residency is designed for recent college graduates who are ready to begin a dynamic career in health care. Learn more about our Leadership Curriculum below, including each of the Business Expertise areas. When you’re ready to apply, click the link to complete the Leadership Residency application.
Our Leadership Residency Curriculum
No matter your business expertise, you’ll learn essential leadership principles and skills with our Leadership Curriculum, delivered through monthly Resident Meetings, biannual Resident Conferences and biannual new resident orientation. We have a variety of presenters, from top AdventHealth executives to external experts and coaches.
Leadership Residency Application Requirements
- Minimum 3.40 cumulative GPA
- Completion of an applicable Bachelor’s degree
- Prior AdventHealth or other professional internship experience
- Prior work experience in a professional environment
- Prior leadership experience in an organized activity requiring team participation and time management
Discover Our Areas of Business Expertise
Each business expertise has its own curriculum led by its respective preceptor. Read through the below to learn more about each business expertise curriculum.
- Business Management
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The management business expertise provides a broad learning experience to equip you for various health care operations and/or administration roles. This executive leadership development program takes residents on a journey through clinical operations, physician leadership, organizational strategy, business development, finance and more. Residents will work with senior leaders in the acute care, outpatient, and post-acute care environments to learn how AdventHealth joins a mission-centered culture with business strategy. This track provides exposure to all facets of AdventHealth operations to prepare you for executive roles across the system.
- Health care operations and/or administration
- Rotations designed around the current and future business of health care
- Finance
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The finance and accounting track allows residents to learn more about the financial aspects of health care and develop skills as a finance professional in a dynamic environment. Residents will experience and work with various finance teams, from accounting and financial planning to reimbursements and revenue cycle. Residents will also develop an understanding of health care finance with the help of experienced individuals throughout the company and learn AdventHealth’s wholistic approach to health care finance and how it aligns with the organization’s mission, vision and values.
- Exposure to budgeting, cost analysis, accounting functions, revenue cycle and strategic financial planning
- Human Resources
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The human resources business expertise allows residents to be part of a top-performing health care HR team designing and executing progressive strategies. Residents learn how the HR team inspires employees to live out their passion and potential while adding business value to the organization. Residents will participate in all aspects of human resources and will be exposed to AdventHealth centers of expertise, the HR Shared Services team and the HR business partner function at the facility level.
AdventHealth plans to grow significantly over the next ten years. That will only be possible with strong human resources leaders who can help grow and develop talent, improve retention, create a compelling employee experience and support our mission of Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ.
- Human resources administration
- Project-based rotations through various corporate departments as well as facility-based HR offices
- Information Technology
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During this program, residents spend hands-on time serving alongside various teams within AdventHealth Information Services, including web, data center operations, networking and the help desk. They also spend time at hospital facilities observing the IT director and assisting in day-to-day operations.
- AdventHealth - IS Systems and Applications
- Enterprise Application Security and Authorization Process
- Data Security Processes
- Network, Enterprise and Operations
- Web and Mobile Systems
- Marketing and Strategic Planning
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The marketing and strategic planning business expertise is for those who enjoy tackling complex problems and leading teams to new and innovative solutions. Residents will explore how health care innovation occurs and interact with start-up companies that will become the next generation of health care suppliers. In addition, residents will practice the science and art of creating and executing business development plans, be exposed to major branding campaigns and learn about the latest digital consumer technology.
Some of the rotations residents will experience include consumer Marketing & Media Relations, Digital Media & Brand Management, Business Development and Population Health.
- Executive marketing and strategic planning
- Broad exposure across AdventHealth focused on all aspects of strategic development
- Physician Enterprise
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Physicians are at the core of AdventHealth. Their work makes it possible for AdventHealth to sustain and grow its ministry of care. The physician enterprise business expertise helps residents understand how building and maintaining a strong coalition of physicians aligned with AdventHealth’s mission and values is critical to delivering health care. From people management to financial strategy, you will gain exposure to the life cycle of a physician practice and will further develop.
- Physician practice management and strategy
- Exposure to the full spectrum of physician practice activities: operations, HR, finance, etc.
- Supply Chain and Business Services
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The Supply Chain and Business Services department is comprised of highly interconnected multi-disciplinary teams who drive work that spans the organization. Through operational work experience, residents will have the opportunity to learn and complete project work in supply expense and spend analytics, supplier selection and contract negotiations, and the use of products and services at the facility level. On the Business Services side, residents will experience project work with our clinical ancillary teams in the Lab, Imaging and Respiratory Therapy departments. On the Support Services side residents will gain experience in the Environmental Services, Food and Nutrition, Facilities and Biomed departments.
The residency will provide a large-scale opportunity for:
- Corporate and hospital-based rotations
- C-suite executive exposure
- Project work that includes purchasing, identifying savings opportunities, logistics, contracting, acquisitions, supply chain technologies, clinical operations and strategic planning through rotations with the above mentioned teams
Learn More About the Leadership Residency Experience
AdventHealth experiences are a key component of the residency curriculum. Residents will have the benefit of access to participate in a number of educational opportunities such as: one-on-one meetings with executives; attending board meetings, departmental or regional meetings; strategy sessions and retreats; observation of surgeries and clinical encounters. Residents are encouraged to seek out these learning experiences, which are rare opportunities and highly valued resources. Learn more about other developmental features of the program below.
- Resident Mentors
- Graduate Education
- Interim Leadership Assignment
- Spiritual Formation
- The Resident Learning Community
Residents will be mentored both formally and informally by many leaders throughout the program. At the six-month point, residents are formally paired with their first mentor. This relationship lasts one year, and then the resident will be paired with a new mentor for an additional year. The AdventHealth Leadership Residency uses the MentorCliQ platform to match, track and manage the relationships as well as provide mentoring resources.
As a companion to leadership study, all residents will obtain a master’s degree. This will be a degree that is related to the resident’s work that will best prepare them for their career path. This is a decision that is made in partnership with the resident’s preceptor and the Leadership Institute.
Each resident will have the opportunity to lead a team in an interim management role. Examples include stepping into a manager or director role while a team member is on leave, filling in when someone has retired or covering a gap during a candidate search. Each resident will also serve as a “Resident Advisor” as they lead one to three interns in the summer leadership internship. These interns will report to the resident throughout the summer. Residents have the opportunity to provide them with both informal and formal feedback, a crucial piece of resident development.
We aim to integrate mission, health and balance in a wholistic way — a way that is personal to each resident as they learn to be a strong missional leader. Spiritual Formation is embedded throughout the resident curriculum and experiences at AdventHealth.
The Resident Learning Community consists of both professional and personal touchpoints among residents. The goal is to create meaningful connections by getting to know and spending time with each other. Residents take ownership of building their learning community.
The Leadership Residency Interview Process
After applying to the Leadership Residency, you will submit a written essay and recorded answers to screening questions. You will then have between five to ten interviews with representatives from the following groups before we select and notify final candidates.
- AdventHealth’s executive leaders (our C-suite)
- Business expertise leaders (leaders you may support)
- Current residents (your potential peers)
- Residency preceptors (your potential instructors)
- The AdventHealth recruiting team (our talent scouts)
- The Leadership Residency support team (our residency programs leaders)
More information will be provided after you apply.