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Why Internal Medicine Residency at FAU?

Picking a residency program is a challenging task. You want to know if you'll like the area, the program, the people. You want to know what the program is like on a day-to-day basis (not just on the fancy interview day). You want to know what life is like outside of work because you will have days off! Well, we asked the residents on our recruitment committee "Why should someone come to Â鶹¾«Æ·ÊÓƵfor residency? What is so great about South Florida?" Here are their responses.

Best of Everything

• Perfectly sized program with residents from varied backgrounds

• Residents are friends outside of work

• Residency culture is inviting and fun with great support

• Interns feel there is a safe learning curve with a 3 interns per team in the beginning of the year (allowing <10 patients per intern)

• Great patient variety between the hospitals including extensive exposure to geriatric patients with multiple comorbidities as well as mix of cases and new presentations of diseases

Focus on Academics

• Employed by the University, working at large healthcare systems including Baptist Health South Florida and Tenet Healthcare

• Academic-minded faculty provide a culture of teaching and feedback

• Access to Amboss and UpToDate as well as the Â鶹¾«Æ·ÊÓƵlibrary

• Access to research help from Â鶹¾«Æ·ÊÓƵand Baptist

Responsive Administration

• Administration uses resources to benefit residents. (ex: coffee machines, study resources, healthy snacks and beverages, wellness events)

• Administration is receptive to resident ideas regarding changes to policy

• The Program Director provides regular email updates keeping all residents informedÌý

Great Schedule

• 4 + 1 schedule prevents burnout & provides golden weekend every 5th week

• Personal Improvement (PI) time during clinic to allow for appointments

• No 24-hr call on any rotations

• At least 1 day off in 7 for all rotations

Learn more about our residency rotations

Career Mentorship

• Lots of guidance/mentorship provided towards attaining professional goals

• Â鶹¾«Æ·ÊÓƵFellowships in Cardiology, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, and Pulmonary-Critical Care Medicine

• Great match rates into competitive fellowships

• Semi-Annual performance reviews are completed by PD/APDs

Faculty

• Clinical faculty is highly trained

• 1-on-1 time with specialists during elective rotations gives great insight into each specialty, makes it easy to build rapport and get LORs

Competitive Benefits

• Free parking and biweekly food stipends for the cafeterias at Boca and Bethesda

• State benefits

• Financial support for travel to national meetings to present scholarly work

• Owl Card allows discounts at area merchants plus Â鶹¾«Æ·ÊÓƵathletics tickets

See all salary and benefits information

Board Prep

• MKSAP provided for all trainees beginning in PGY2 year

• $500 towards board prep course for PGY3s

• $1200 education stipend yearly to use for educational materials

Excellent Job Placement

• Residents find excellent internal medicine jobs across the country

See fellowship and job placements for our residents

Location

• 15-minute (or less) door-to-beach time!

• Florida weather = 365 days of summerÌý

• Boca Raton, Delray Beach, and Boynton Beach are fun, safe locations to live and offer a wide variety of activities, food, music, and more

• Only a short drive to Miami, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale

• Easy day trip to Orlando, Key West, Tampa