Dr. Jose Rubero is the Associate Program Director, Co-Clerkship Director, and Educational Director at the HCA Healthcare/USF Morsani College of Medicine GME Emergency Medicine Residency at HCA Oak Hill Hospital in Spring Hill, Florida.

He is Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of Central Florida College of Medicine. Florida State University, NOVA/Dr. Kiran Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, Universidad Central Del Caribe College of Medicine, and other medical schools. Also, he is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at USF Morsani College of Medicine.

Prior to his current position, he was the proposed Program Director at University of Central Florida/HCA GME Consortium Emergency Medicine Residency at HCA West Florida Hospital in Pensacola, Florida; Founding Faculty, Associate Program Director and then Acting Program Director at University of Central Florida/HCA GME Consortium Emergency Medicine Residency Program of Greater Orlando at Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee, Florida; Founding Clerkship Director and Founding Faculty member of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Florida Hospital (now AdventHealth) in East Orlando, Florida.

He was the Emergency Clerkship Director for University of Central Florida COM, Florida State University COM, NOVA College of Osteopathic Medicine, and LECOM College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Dr. Rubero received his MD from the Universidad Central Del Caribe School of Medicine, in Puerto Rico, where he later designed a medical student curriculum in emergency medicine and was appointed as Professor. 

During his medical school training, Dr. Rubero was recognized by the American Red Cross and by the Puerto Rican government for excellence in helping the community.

He completed two residency programs: 

-Internal Medicine at Cabrini Medical Center/Mt. Sinai Medical School in New York City

-Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Lincoln Medical Center/Cornell University in the Bronx, NY where he was one of the Chief Residents. 

In 2000, he designed an Emergency Medicine Course and a Trauma Course to be used in Medical Schools as part of the Emergency Medicine Curriculum.  Since then, Dr. Rubero had been teaching these Courses in Quito, Ecuador; Guatemala City, Guatemala; as well as different MD and DO Schools including UCF COM, NOVA, LECOM, Kansas City University, FSU, and others. Yearly, he goes to his alma mater, Universidad Central del Caribe, Medical School (a LCME accredited school) in Puerto Rico to teach Emergency Medicine as part of the 3rd and 4th year medical school curriculum for the past 25 years.

Trying to improve the quality of the didactics as self-study time from the students, Dr. Rubero designed a clerkship website where the students can review his lectures, watch videos, and connect to other links related in emergency medicine. The website is: www.FloridaEMClerkship.com. Dr. Rubero was an important faculty member giving personal supervision and lectures to the residents.  Many residents always tried to attend Dr. Rubero lectures due because they were interactive and integrated with the mentality of the millennium residents.

For his achievement in medical students’ education, he was nominated in two consecutive years for the Clerkship Director of the Year 2014-2015 CDEM Awards for Education Excellence.

In April 2017, he was recognized at the CORD Academic Assembly with the CORD Academy for Scholarship in Education in Emergency Medicine Academy Award. This award is given to outstanding educators who have met rigorous standards of academic excellence within the last ten years. 

For three consecutive years, he was the organizer and the Medical Director for the FH EM Residency Program Annual EMS Conference.

In addition to education, Dr. Rubero had been distinguished as an excellent clinician ae well as educational support among his colleagues. Some of the comments from Dr. Rubero’s colleagues are: “demonstrate a high ethical standard and is a tireless advocate of graduate medical education; has an excellent fund of knowledge and is able to translate that well to clinical applications; as an educator, he sets the standard at our Institution with his breadth of knowledge and experience”.

In addition to teaching, he had been appointed as the Assistant Medical Director for the Florida Hospital EMS, Flight and Transfer Center for 4 years and the Assistant Medical Director for the Osceola County, City of Kissimmee, and City of St. Cloud EMS Systems in the State of Florida for 3 years.

Dr. Rubero's goal is to integrate the Emergency Medicine Curriculum as part of the medical schools' curriculum.  His interests are disaster relief, cardiology, pulmonary, critical care, and EMS.