University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville

The UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville is located in Duval County, within the city of Jacksonville, Florida. The origins of the Health Science Center date back to 1870 with the opening of Florida's first non-military hospital, known then as Duval Hospital and Asylum, located on Jefferson St. :*In 1901, George A. Brewster Hospital and School of Nursing opened to care for victims of the great fire of Jacksonville. :*The Duval County Welfare Board took control of the Duval Hospital and Asylum in 1922. :*By 1925 the first residency program in the state opened at the Duval Hospital and Asylum. The following year the hospital was renamed the Duval County Hospital. :*The first cancer program in Florida was developed at the Duval County Hospital in 1948. Later that same year, the hospital was renamed the Duval Medical Center. :*By 1958 the UF Teaching Hospital opened in Gainesville as a state institution and the first UF clinic, UF Outpatient Clinic, opened on the campus; seven years later, the name of the teaching hospital was modified, and became Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics. :*In 1966, the Brewster Hospital and School of Nursing closed, but re-opened the following year as the not-for-profit Methodist Hospital. :*A benchmark in medical education in Jacksonville occurred in 1969 with the formation of the Jacksonville Health Education Program, Inc. (JHEP). This was the first medical extension division of the UF College of Medicine. :*In 1971, the Duval Medical Center was renamed the University Hospital of Jacksonville. :*An affiliation between the Outpatient VA Clinic in Jacksonville and the Jacksonville Health Education Program, Inc. (JEHP) was established in 1972. :*The Jacksonville Faculty Plan was created under the auspice of the University Hospital Academic Fund, Inc. in 1978. :*In 1983, the hospital opened the first Level I trauma center in Florida. :*In 1985, the University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville was established. :*In 1988, the Health Science Center was designated a major affiliate and urban campus of the UF Health Science Center. All physician faculty based in Jacksonville became UF faculty. :*In 1989, the hospital was renamed University Medical Center (UMC) and JHEP was managed by the UF Health Science Center. :*The Jacksonville Faculty Practice Association, Inc. was renamed the University of Florida Jacksonville Physicians, Inc. (UFJPI) in 1996 and the University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville Satellite Clinics, Inc. was renamed University of Florida Jacksonville Healthcare, Inc. (UFJHI). :*The UF Southside Specialty Care Center, the first UF community-based multi-specialty practice opened in Jacksonville in 1996. :*As an affiliate of the University of Florida Health Science Center and Shands HealthCare, University Medical Center and Methodist Medical Center merged in 1999 to become Shands Jacksonville Medical Center. Shands Jacksonville serves as the UF College of Medicine-Jacksonville's major hospital affiliation. :*In 2013, Shands Jacksonville was renamed UF Health Jacksonville. Consistent with its role in medical education for the university, the Jacksonville campus was formally designated as a regional campus of the University of Florida College of Medicine in 2004 with the appointment of the first dean of the regional campus, Robert C. Nuss, M.D. == Affiliations ==

The UF College of Medicine - Jacksonville is closely affiliated with UF Health Jacksonville, a comprehensive care academic medical center and the metropolitan teaching hospital for UFCOM-J. The hospital's major centers include the Breast Center, Cardiovascular Center, Neuroscience Institute and the Women's Health Center. UF Health Jacksonville is home to the only Level I adult and pediatric trauma center in Northeast Florida, as well as one of only two hospitals in the area to have a Level III neonatal intensive care unit and a separate pediatric emergency department. In addition, UF's proton beam cancer treatment facility was the first of its kind in the Southeastern US and fifth in the nation. The UF Health Proton Therapy Institute is located on the hospital's campus. In addition to UF Health Jacksonville, UF College of Medicine - Jacksonville faculty physicians provide patient care at seven other major medical centers and more than 36 primary and specialty satellite practices across North Florida and South Georgia. == Patient care ==

The UF College of Medicine - Jacksonville provides a combination of patient care and medical education. The hospital serves as the clinical base to educate medical students, residents and fellows under the supervision of faculty in all of the major medical and surgical specialties, with more than 380 faculty physicians and over 300 residents and fellows. It also provides a training site for those studying for careers in nursing, pharmacy, medical technology, podiatry and other health fields. The faculty practice plan was originally established as a separate 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation and is now the University of Florida Jacksonville Physicians, Inc. (UFJPI). UFJPI provides practice management support, billing and collection for 380 physicians with academic University of Florida appointments. == Research ==

The UF Health Science Center Jacksonville received $23.1 million in external support for research in fiscal year 2019 and had more than 376 ongoing externally funded studies. The college's Dean's Office offers two internal grant competitions annually, one for Jacksonville faculty, and the other for Jacksonville residents and fellows. In 2012, the Dean's Office awarded more than $100,000 in internal research funding. The UF College of Medicine - Jacksonville offers on-campus biostatistical consulting and research support services to faculty, residents, fellows and other researchers. Also as a service to faculty members, staff and employees of the Health Science Center Jacksonville, the Institutional Review Board (IRB) provides guidance and assistance in preparing proposed projects that involve human subjects in research. == Education ==

Graduate Medical Education The University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville is home of the first residency program in the state of Florida: the surgery residency program began in 1925 at what was then called the Duval Hospital. Today the college attracts students from all regions of the United States to train in Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited residencies and fellowships, in addition to two Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA)-accredited fellowships. == See also ==