AdventHealth Florida Ocala Program

Program Identity & Fit

AdventHealth Ocala is a new, unopposed community-based family medicine residency built on a Clinic First model, prioritizing the outpatient continuity practice as the primary educational site over inpatient rotations. The program explicitly centers its mission on underserved populations and health equity, with a whole-person, faith-influenced care philosophy and broad exposure across obstetrics, addiction medicine, behavioral health, and musculoskeletal medicine within an 8/8/8 unopposed structure. Scholarly activity is required but modestly scoped (two projects per resident, including one QI project), supported by institutional CARE infrastructure rather than a research-driven identity, indicating the program values clinical competence and community impact over academic output. As an inaugural cohort program, it appears to be building a generalist, community-oriented physician workforce suited to comprehensive primary care in a growing but non-metropolitan Florida setting.