As a resident, you’ll enjoy a schedule that’s well-balanced and allows ample elective and research opportunities early in your training process.

Clinical training

Your training takes place in state-of-the-art clinic and hospital facilities that serve patients with diverse socio-economic backgrounds, including local, national, and international patients.

You are very active in providing care for the underserved. All of our residents rotate through Mission House in Jacksonville Beach and the Sulzbacher Center in downtown Jacksonville, both of which offer a free medical clinic for individuals affected by homelessness.

Residents will also rotate through Volunteers in Medicine in downtown Jacksonville, which helps support the community's working uninsured population.

You may also pursue elective rotations in underserved international communities through the Mayo International Health Program. 

During the ambulatory rotations, you rotate through the University of North Florida Student Health Services clinic. The geriatrics rotation includes rotating through hospice and several local nursing homes.

Advanced Care at Home

Advanced Care at Home is a state-of-the-art virtual care offering that orchestrates delivery of the necessary services, technology, and capabilities to safely shift hospital-level care to patients' homes. Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida was the first site to introduce this service, followed by Mayo Clinic Health Systems, and, most recently, Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. Our Internal Medicine residents rotate through this practice during their PGY-3 Hospital Medicine rotation.

At a high level, this service allows patients who live within a 30-mile radius of Mayo Clinic that are 'sick, but stable,' to have the option of care at home instead of hospital admission to reduce or avoid hospital stays. Under the direction of Mayo Clinic providers, an ecosystem of support services attend to in-home care needs. Medically Home has been chosen as Mayo Clinic's platform partner to provide the technology platform that orchestrates the delivery of these services into the home and supporting infrastructure. The offering is based on three new and expanded capabilities:

1. A Mayo Clinic physician-led 24/7 virtual monitoring center
2. On-demand acute medical care management
3. Rapid-response teams to deliver supplies and services

All internal medicine residents are trained to conduct virtual visits through our telemedicine curriculum. Virtual visits are supervised by faculty in the same way as in-person visits are conducted.

The curriculum includes simulated virtual visits for each PGY-1 resident prior to real virtual visits with patients, telehealth etiquette, billing, and documentation policies, and physical exam tips for virtual visits.

Board review

All PGY-3 residents are required to attend formal board review sessions throughout the year and are excused from all clinical duties during that time.

Rotation schedule

We have a 4+1 (x+y) block schedule with categorical residents spending every fifth week throughout the year in ambulatory clinics, including in their continuity clinic in Community Internal Medicine. This scheduling method provides a well-balanced inpatient, outpatient, and consult team experience, with the option to rotate at Mayo Clinic campuses in Minnesota and Arizona pending approval from the Graduate Medical Education Committee.