University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville Program

Program Identity & Fit

The University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville Orthopaedic Surgery Residency is a five-year, ACGME-accredited program based at UF Health Jacksonville, a 695-bed academic safety-net hospital housing the region's Level I trauma center serving Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia. Training draws heavy trauma exposure from PGY-1 onward, with structured rotations through pediatric orthopaedics at Nemours Children's Health and adult reconstruction at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, reflecting a multi-institutional model that blends high-acuity trauma volume with subspecialty depth. Research is structurally embedded but not the program's defining identity: every resident completes an IRB-approved project and manuscript prior to graduation, with Research Day, funding for conference presentation, and a distinctive optional international elective rotation (Haiti, Peru, Grenada) addressing global orthopaedic care disparities. The department explicitly frames its mission as preparing residents for private practice, academic medicine, or subspecialty fellowship, indicating a broad, practice-agnostic training philosophy rather than a fellowship-pipeline or research-track focus.