University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a 5-year university-affiliated urology residency anchored at UF Health Jacksonville, a 695-bed safety-net teaching hospital serving Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia, supplemented by high-volume ambulatory exposure at UF Health North and pediatric urology rotations at Wolfson Children's Hospital and Nemours. The curriculum is content-centered and problem-based, building from a broad PGY-1 surgical foundation (trauma, critical care, vascular, IR, anesthesia) toward graduated autonomy in benign, oncologic, and pediatric urology, with progressively heavier oncology exposure in senior years. An active department research infrastructure exists, including dedicated basic/translational laboratories (Balaji, Shukla) focused on urologic malignancies, a Dean's Fund Research Award, and an annual Research Day, indicating scholarly work is encouraged and structurally supported rather than incidental. The safety-net patient population and socioeconomic diversity are explicitly framed as central to resident formation around social determinants of health, suggesting the program values residents comfortable with underserved, complex populations and broad surgical grounding before subspecialization.