The Internal Medicine Residency in Florida encourages each resident to design their own three-year track by allowing multiple elective rotations each year to help you meet your career goals.

In addition to the standard rotations available in all subspecialty areas of internal medicine, we have developed the following advanced electives that can be beneficial in any learning pathway:

• Medical education
• Healthcare administration
• Individualized medicine and clinical genomics
• Lifestyle medicine
• Community engagement
• Mayo International Health Program
• Aerospace medicine

Aerospace medicine

Aerospace Medicine is a four-week elective for PGY-2 and PGY-3 Internal Medicine residents at the Mayo Clinic campus in Jacksonville, Florida. Aerospace Medicine faculty and multiple subspecialty experts contribute to the course.

The curriculum includes teaching the Federal Aviation Administration exam, CO2 and high-altitude medicine, G-Forces and cardiology, spatial disorientation and aerodynamics, astronaut recovery, a mass-casualty simulation drill designed by Mayo Clinic for SpaceX, and in-person visits to the Kennedy Space Center and Jacksonville Air National Guard F-15 division (pictured here in October 2021). Individual and group research projects allow learners to delve into aerospace medicine research. Hands-on procedural learning includes ultrasound use in aerospace medicine, simulations for astronaut recovery, crew resource management, and simulated in-flight emergencies.

Healthcare administration

If you’re interested in leadership, our residency offers and encourages resident representative positions on institutional committees.

We have periodic didactics in healthcare advocacy, with topics on federal and state government assistance programs, private insurance, and current programs and proposals being considered in the legislature.

In partnership with dedicated faculty, internal medicine residents at Mayo Clinic in Florida have the opportunity to meet with city and state government representatives.

We additionally offer a unique healthcare administration elective that allows residents to become more familiar with the complicated healthcare system they inhabit. Didactics are designed to inform residents of how quality improvement is happening within this system and how they may improve the value of care they deliver throughout their professional careers, with opportunities to interface with executive-level administrators at Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida.

Medical education opportunities

Opportunities are available for you to teach medical students from Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, as well as visiting sub-interns from around the country.

All teaching faculty and senior residents undergo training to improve their teaching skills and become more effective educators. The interactive sessions, called Residents as Teachers, are held each year as part of our scheduled curriculum and incorporate concepts related to learning climate, evaluation and feedback, and identifying individual learning styles.

Our residents have the opportunity to participate in curriculum development through the Medical Education elective. Experiences on this elective include the opportunity to develop a self-directed medical education project under core faculty leadership.

On a competitive basis, our residents can be nominated and accepted to participate in the Mayo Clinic enterprise-wide Medical Education pathway program.