University of Central Florida-HCA Florida Healthcare Gainesville Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based, university-sponsored internal medicine program (UCF/HCA Healthcare Consortium) at HCA Florida North Florida Hospital in Gainesville, built explicitly to prepare residents equally for hospital medicine, outpatient primary care, traditional generalist practice, and fellowship pathways rather than pushing a single trajectory. The 6+2 block curriculum, a purpose-built 20-room continuity clinic, structured evidence-based-medicine debates, and a dedicated GME Office of Research with access to HCA's large multi-site clinical database reflect a program that treats scholarly activity as institutionally supported and expected but not the defining identity. Co-located geriatric medicine and hospice/palliative medicine fellowships, plus simulation-lab procedural training, give residents exposure to adjacent subspecialty tracks without positioning the program as tertiary/quaternary or academically elite. The explicit emphasis on interpersonal/communication skills, humility in accepting feedback, and compassion in screening, combined with a formalized well-being infrastructure (Pathways to Flourishing), signals a program that values resilient, collegial, patient-centered trainees over research-driven or subspecialty-focused prestige seekers.