Nova Southeastern University - College of Osteopathic Medicine Orlando Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based, university-affiliated psychiatry residency built around a public-sector mission, with its primary clinical home at the Orlando VA Healthcare System supplemented by correctional facility rotations (Lake Correctional Institution, Florida Women's Reception Center, Lowell Correctional Institution) and Central Florida Behavioral Hospital. The six-resident-per-class program explicitly trains psychiatrists for careers serving veterans and incarcerated populations, an unusual dual focus rarely emphasized this directly by other programs. Its distinctive structural feature is a shared didactic, faculty, journal club, and grand rounds collaboration with the separate UCF/HCA Orlando psychiatry program, alongside interdisciplinary training with psychology and APRN trainees emphasizing team-based care. Research is present as scholarly work expectation but is not positioned as a defining identity; the program instead foregrounds clinical service in underserved, structurally confined systems (VA and corrections) over academic or subspecialty fellowship tracks.