I have heard good and bad things about it. First and foremost its the name - some people go after the name of a residency program. Also its in a nice area of Jacksonville.
As a fellow FP applicant this year who is facing similar issues possibly - use the following guidelines to make your decision
1) Where do you want to practice - rural or urban
2) Do you want to be near your hometown or away for 3 or 4 years
3) Cost of living as a resident
4)How important is it to have Mayo clinic on your final degree
5) no matter where you train, your salary remains the same - that is dictated by CMS & Ins Co.'s
6)patient population. Some places offer a diverse population which is good because it will allow you to see race or culture specific pathology. One program in the mid west told me we only read about sickle cell crisis because we don't see it out here.
With that said, there are alot of great programs that will give you great experiences ie if you want to do urgent care then NY programs are good because of the volume you see and the speed you see them. You could get good EM exp up in the north east too for the same reason. The bottom line is FP is FP.
opposed programs are better to learn from if your going to be predominantly outpatient and maybe consider doing hospitalist work. unopposed will allow you to be a hospitalist and learn all the procedures without much competition or having to wait for your turn.
FP is all about outpatient medicine but as of late its moved towards inpatient. The rules above apply
Never been there, so this is word of mouth, take it with a grain of salt. I've heard they train you to be an excellent referral monkey.
Sorry... if that's inflammatory. I don't mean it to be. To explain, I hear the focus is on outpatient adolescent to adult medicine with little room to venture out of that box. I could be wrong, a friend transferred out of that program, and that's been a few years ago.
Hello guys. I know this thread is more than 8 years old but I was wondering if anything has changed over that period and if past or current residents have new inputs. Thanks!
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