Welcome to the Neurology Residency Program in the department of neurology at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville. As part of an academic health center, the UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville offers a variety of training opportunities to residents, fellows and post-doctoral associates. Affiliated with UF Health Jacksonville, the regions only Level I trauma center, the college serves as a hub for medical education, research, innovation and patient care.
This three-year program is accredited through the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, or ACGME, and features a comprehensive, competency-based curriculum combining an outstanding clinical experience with bedside and didactic teaching from exceptional UF faculty. The curriculum also provides extensive exposure to neurological research, and gives direct experience in education to help train medical students and junior residents.
Neurology residents conduct their inpatient training at UF Health Jacksonville, a DNV Healthcare-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center. In the air, UF Health TraumaOne Flight Services, is used to transport patients with ischemic strokes to the hospital from a 12-county area. These patients are evaluated for intravenous thrombolysis, intra-arterial thrombolysis, and clot retrieval. On the ground, the Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit provides immediate care to stroke patients, often beginning treatment while in transit.
Patients with complex seizure disorders are admitted to a six-bed video EEG monitoring unit on the neurology floor, and patients with critical neurological issues are admitted to a 12-bed neurointensive care unit. Outpatient adult neurology training, including the neurology resident continuity clinic, occurs at the UF Health Neuroscience Institute. The Neuroscience Institute also serves as a referral center for subspecialty neurology including epilepsy, demyelinating diseases, neuromuscular disorders, movement disorders, cerebrovascular disorders, dementia, and headache.
Residents spend their required pediatric neurology rotations at the UF College of Medicine campus in Gainesville at UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital. Residents see pediatric patients with a wide variety of neurologic disorders while being supervised and taught by UF physicians from the division of pediatric neurology. Our program provides lodging while on this rotation.
Please take some time to navigate through our site to learn more about our residency program. Please contact us if we can offer any further information regarding our program.
Shannon M LaBoy MD, MS
Suparna R Krishnaiengar M.D.