University of Florida College of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a university-affiliated, academically-oriented PM&R program embedded in the UF Health system, a Level-1 tertiary referral center serving a catchment of roughly 3 million people, with inpatient training concentrated at a dedicated 60-bed CARF/JCAHO-accredited rehabilitation hospital. The program offers unusually strong subspecialty niches for a PM&R residency, including a nationally recognized running medicine program, a dedicated Sports Performance Center for gait/motion analysis and metabolic testing, and emerging musculoskeletal/throwers clinic development, alongside broad exposure to TBI, SCI, oncologic, pediatric, and interventional pain populations. Research is embedded and active, led by nationally funded faculty in exercise-as-medicine and pain science, with residents regularly co-authoring publications and presenting at national meetings (ASPN, AAPM&R, ASRA), suggesting an expectation of scholarly participation beyond passive exposure. The program explicitly frames its mission around training "clinical and academic leaders" and emphasizes resident wellness and team-based, longitudinal patient management as core values.