University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a long-standing (since the early 1960s) university-affiliated academic internal medicine program based at UF Health Jacksonville, a 695-bed tertiary care teaching hospital with the region's only adult and pediatric Level I trauma center, serving a large, medically complex urban safety-net population. The program is structured around graduated resident autonomy (via "mega team" and night float structures), a repeating 18-month didactic cycle, and self-governance through an elected House Staff Council that has directly shaped curricular changes. Research is institutionally robust, anchored by active NIH/industry-funded divisions such as the Cardiovascular/Thrombosis Research Program (CYP2C19-guided antiplatelet therapy, pharmacodynamic trials) and pulmonary physician-scientist labs studying exosomes and bacteriophage therapy, with residents expected to build a "strong publication and presentation record." Subspecialty fellowship match success is emphasized, supported by in-house fellowships across cardiology, GI, ID, heme-onc, nephrology, pulm/critical care, and rheumatology, indicating a program oriented toward producing subspecialists from a high-acuity, high-volume teaching hospital base.