University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a five-year, university-affiliated general surgery residency at UF's Jacksonville campus, built around an academic safety-net hospital with a level-one trauma and emergency services core, giving residents heavy exposure to acute care surgery, trauma and critical illness. The program blends operative volume with structured simulation training and didactics, and maintains an extensive network of surgical subspecialty fellowships (complex GI surgery, surgical critical care, otolaryngology-based fellowships) reflecting a faculty invested in procedural subspecialization and continued training pipelines. The stated institutional aim is to produce graduates prepared for private practice, academic medicine, or subspecialty fellowship, indicating a program that does not funnel residents toward a single career path but builds broad operative competence. Emphasis on core clerkship performance and chair letters signals a program valuing demonstrated surgical aptitude and clinical rigor early in training.