Program Overview

For 50+ years, the Tallahassee Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program has attracted residents from across the world to train in the Big Bend.

Program Overview 

We are an 11-11-11 program with a passion for service at a hospital growing its academic footprint. Our sponsoring hospital is also the home of 4 other residencies (FSU internal medicine, general surgery, and psychiatry, as well as TMH pharmacy programs), offering benefits of both community and academic training experiences while still maintaining a sense of being “unopposed”: our residents are still the only residents on pediatric, obstetric, and emergency services! We are seated in the heart of the Florida Panhandle, in a bustling capital city with the government sector and multiple universities and surrounded by over a hundred miles of rural land in all directions. This provides great learning opportunities across demographics and pathologies and in multiple learning environments both urban and rural.

The faculty care deeply about resident learning and wellbeing. Our inpatient medicine and OB services are staffed by family medicine core faculty, modeling what it is like for family docs to provide care in both inpatient and outpatient settings. TMH offers broad and strong training in both hospital medicine and the primary care clinic, and we care for significant OB and pediatric populations. After graduation, our residents go on to serve in a variety of settings, from rural full-scope inpatient/outpatient practices, to urban hospitalist, urgent care, ER, or primary care work.

See below for an outline of our 3-year curriculum. The rotations are in no particular order within each year, and there is some flexibility in ambulatory rotations between PGY-2 and -3 based on resident interests.

Other notes:

• Intern orientation takes place in the two weeks prior to the start of PGY-1.
• Hospital medicine night call is covered in a Night Float structure with resident pairs (intern + senior) for one-week stints while on outpatient rotations, for a total of approximately 10 weekends over the course of 3 years.
• Residents can (but are not required to) participate in curriculum tracks including hospital medicine and palliative medicine, with more underway. Regardless of tracks, residents have a number of electives that can be chosen to support to their career goals, whether in rural medicine, women's health, ER, or otherwise.
• Residents can participate in longitudinal experiences in areas such as OB, wound care, and HIV medicine, based on individual interests.
• Our family medicine center offers directed learning opportunities in “specialty clinics” that residents participate in routinely throughout the course of their training. These include point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS); substance use disorder; outpatient gynecological procedures; adolescent medicine; spirometry; nutrition and obesity; anticoagulation; integrated behavioral health; skin surgery; and musculoskeletal medicine.
• Over the course of 3 years, every resident will carry out a minimum of two scholarly activities such as a Quality Improvement project, a case report, or a grand rounds presentation, and are encouraged to present at local, state, and national conferences.