University of Central Florida-HCA Florida Healthcare Tallahassee Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based general psychiatry program in Tallahassee affiliated with UCF College of Medicine and operated within the HCA Healthcare GME network, drawing on multiple community clinical sites (Capital Hospital, Capital City Psychiatry, Life Management of NW Florida, Tallahassee Neurological Clinic, Tallahassee Enhanced Care) to provide breadth across inpatient, outpatient, consultative, forensic, geriatric, child/adolescent, and community psychiatry rotations. The program's stated end-goal is producing board-eligible psychiatrists ready for autonomous general practice rather than subspecialty-driven training, though PGY-4 electives (ECT, forensics, addiction, geriatrics, administration) allow some individualization. Research is institutionally supported through HCA's national scholarly infrastructure (research coordinators, access to large patient-encounter datasets, HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine) rather than being a defining identity of this specific site, and the program explicitly emphasizes resident wellness and connection as a core operational value alongside standard didactics (PRITE, journal clubs, M&M, Decker curriculum). The structure and rotation diversity suggest a program that values well-rounded clinical competence across care settings and comfort working within a decentralized, community-network training model.