Florida State University College of Medicine-St. Vincent's Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a longstanding (since 1972), community-based, university-affiliated (FSU College of Medicine) family medicine program built around full-spectrum training, with obstetrics as a defining pillar of its identity - residents deliver at St. Vincent's Southside, complete OB night float, and can pursue an in-house post-residency OB Fellowship with optional surgical (C-section, D&C) training aimed at addressing local "obstetrical deserts." The program also runs a non-accredited Academic Medicine Fellowship for graduates pursuing teaching careers, reflecting an explicit pipeline toward both community full-spectrum practice and academic/teaching roles. Clinical training spans continuity clinic (FMC), inpatient medicine, night float without 24-hour shifts, pediatrics at Wolfson Children's Hospital, geriatrics/long-term care, and progressive procedural autonomy in obstetrics and office gynecology, with a heavily osteopathic resident composition and holistic, whole-person admissions review. Research is present only as a brief PGY-1 "Community Medicine & Research" block, indicating it is a minor curricular component rather than a defining value.