University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a four-year, university-affiliated ObGyn residency embedded in a safety-net academic medical center in Jacksonville, where residents have trained two-thirds of the area's practicing obstetrician-gynecologists, reflecting deep community-town integration and a high-volume, acuity-rich public hospital patient base. The program builds in a required, longitudinal research project spanning PGY2-4 with institutional support, Dean's Fund awards, and an annual Research Day, signaling clinically applied rather than bench-science research expectations. Rotations at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville and UF North add subspecialty and community-site breadth atop core training in oncology, urogynecology, REI, and family planning, and the program explicitly frames itself as preparing residents for general practice, fellowship, or academic medicine equally. The stated emphasis on physician advocacy, organized medicine involvement, and a "family" culture suggests a program valuing broad clinical competence and community commitment over narrow subspecialty pedigree.