Family Medicine at Jacksonville
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NAVAL HOSPITAL, JACKSONVILLE
Mrs. Vicky WOLFF
Comm: (904) 542-7762
Fax: (904) 542-7836
E-mail: vicky.wolff@med.navy.mil
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I'm an intern at Jacksonville, one of the Navy's biggest (w/ Pendleton) FM programs. The program here is great, in my opinion. Jacksonville is the suburban metoprolis of the South. It's a huge city, and you'll never experience all of it, good or bad. Food here is tolerable (by my stuck-up NJ standards.) And the weather is great. Minimal season change, but my wife, who missed the seasons (BOOHOO), is liking the variable 50-80 degree weather.
Something you want in an FM program is to be busy, but not necessarily overwhelmingly busy, and this program definitely has that. OB wise, we are getting busier once a new hangar is up and running, but we get at least 80 deliveries a month. That sounds like 3 a day, but I can tell you that some days we get zero, some days we've had up to 6 or more. IM wise, you can have between 1-6 patients on the service, which can be monotonous chest painers to some pretty complex stuff. There is cardiology, GI, and full IM support, so you're not just going crazy. Peds here is on the slower side, and that's a great thing. You do a month of inpt (mostly newborns) and outpt as an intern, which is a nice starter for Pediatrics. Then 2nd year, you go to the children's hospital and really learn, inpt medicine, NICU with newborn nursery, and finally Peds ER in 3rd year. It's a nice variety.
Clinic is intense and only gets better. AHLTA blows, but we're getting a new one, so who knows how that'll help. You meet your new patients over the year, only to realize their problem list is intense. After a couple visits, you get into a routine, and you're good to go. It's the most rewarding part of the residency, albeit one of the more difficult.
That's NH Jacksonville in a nutshell. Are there not so great parts to the program, of course. The other 4 programs have equally bad parts about it. But hopefully you are interested in coming here. You can email me if you have more questions.
/r LT Orlando Cabrera NH Jacksonville, Intern orlando.cabrera@med.navy.mil
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