University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a university-affiliated, safety-net academic neurology program based at UF Health Jacksonville, structured as an advanced PGY-1 (internal medicine) plus PGY-2-4 neurology track with a guaranteed preliminary year on campus. The program's clinical identity is anchored by its Comprehensive Stroke Center, which coordinates a 12-county rural referral network via helicopter transport, telemedicine links to outlying hospitals and freestanding EDs, and a mobile stroke treatment unit run jointly with Jacksonville Fire and Rescue, giving residents heavy exposure to acute cerebrovascular disease across a broad geographic catchment. Research is embedded but not the program's core selling point: residents have access to a Dean's Research Grant, Resident Research Day, sub-investigator roles on multicenter stroke trials, biostatistics support, and an in-house vascular neurology fellowship pipeline. The program values residents comfortable with high-acuity stroke/vascular neurology systems-of-care work, telemedicine-based consultation, and an integrated medicine-to-neurology training arc rather than a purely subspecialty-research identity.