University of South Florida Morsani Morton Plant Mease Health Care Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is an unopposed, university-affiliated community-based Family Medicine program in Clearwater, FL, anchored by the Turley Family Health Center, which serves a diverse, underserved, and socioeconomically and linguistically varied patient population. The program's identity centers on full-scope, broad-spectrum training with unusually liberal elective time (24 weeks) and named longitudinal tracks—Integrative Medicine (the only one in Florida through the University of Arizona program), Wilderness Medicine, and an Obstetric Track requiring supervised deliveries—alongside distinctive lifestyle-medicine infrastructure (Jacobsen Teaching Kitchen, PERx exercise-prescription program) and a POCUS curriculum. Research exists through a Resident Scholar Program and elective-time projects but is not central to the program's mission; instead, career orientation is clearly toward community-based primary care and fellowship pathways (sports medicine, integrative medicine) rather than academic subspecialization. The program values residents drawn to community leadership, whole-person/lifestyle-medicine approaches, procedural breadth, and long-term local practice, reflected in its explicit institutional goal of shaping graduates who remain engaged with underserved community care after training.