The program has adopted a 4+1 teaching block model design. Residents will spend four weeks of each block rotating with an inpatient service, emergency medicine, ICU/critical care, or an elective.
During the one week of the five-week block, residents will rotate in the ambulatory clinic seeing patients in the outpatient setting in the morning and/or afternoon. Residents will receive patient assignments and follow these patients in the outpatient setting through their three years of training.
During the first two years of training, residents learn the fundamentals in diagnosing disease and the appropriate selection of diagnostic studies. Rotations through subspecialties occur throughout your training with up to 17 weeks during your third year. With few exceptions, all rotations occur at North Florida Regional Medical Center or surrounding subspecialty practices.
Evaluation on each rotation is based on the defined curriculum, which includes medical knowledge and professional interactions with patients, peers, faculty and staff. The curriculum follows the framework detailed in the ACGME internal medicine milestones and core competencies.
In addition to regular 360-degree summative evaluations, we employ OSCEs (simulated clinical experiences), mini-CEXs (structured evaluation of clinical skills), clinical quality performance data and oral exams in our evaluation of residents.
The inclusion of many objective assessments ensures evaluation uniformity. Evaluation in our residency program empowers you with an individualized learning path to advance your career as a physician. Each resident is assigned an academic mentor who meets regularly to discuss evaluations, program requirements and career plans.
Inpatient rotations
Inpatient rotations will provide the opportunity for exposure to a broad spectrum of disease in an environment emphasizing integrated healthcare delivery.
Residents will benefit from a schedule and training program that provides immediate feedback from instructors and with a better understanding of the complexity of care in an inpatient setting.