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Welcome and thank you for your interest in our Emergency Department and the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the University of Florida Gainesville Campus. Throughout this website you will find information about our Academic Emergency Department, our health care team at Shands at the University of Florida as well as specific information on the residency program that we hope will be of assistance to you.
The University of Florida is the flagship institution of higher learning in the state university system of Florida and one of the largest public universities in the country. The entire 2,000 acre university campus is located in the town of Gainesville most recently voted by National Geographic as the one of the best places to work and play in the U.S. The academic medical campus of the University of Florida is home to Colleges of Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Health Professions, Dentistry and Medicine and is partnered with Shands at the University of Florida which is one of the premier academic medical centers and tertiary care facilities in the South East, and is the hub of an eight hospital network which includes Shands Jacksonville.
| The University of Florida’s Health Science Center and Shands Teaching Hospital in Gainesville, FL |
Shands at the University of Florida is a level one Trauma center, and the only burn center in northern Florida with a catchment area spanning 11 counties. The Department of Emergency Medicine at Gainesville is an independent academic department within the college of medicine and supports a residency program fully accredited by the ACGME. The Emergency Department faculty and staff of the University of Florida and Shands at UF provide medical care at a volume of approximately 45,000 visits per year in a 12,300 square foot 32 bed patient care area. In the fall of 2009 the emergency department and trauma center will be relocated to the ground floor of the new cancer center. The New Emergency Department located at Shands South Tower opened on November 1, 2009 and is a state of the art 37,000 square foot 66 bed Emergency Department designed to improve patient throughput and to provide the infrastructure for expert critical and trauma care. In addition, our residents rotate through the Emergency Department at Shands AGH located 3 miles from the main campus in downtown Gainesville, exposing our residents to a combined patient care volume of over 80,000 visits per year with a unique cross section ranging from the urban to the rural environments of North Florida.
The residency program was expertly developed with a modular human simulation based curriculum at its core. Our faculty have wide ranging interests from Micro vascular injury including end-organ damage in the heart, brain and lung, non-invasive cardiovascular monitoring, health care policy and research, adult learning and patient simulation, ultrasound as well as environmental and toxicological emergencies and International Emergency Medicine. Our location on the university campus has opened doors for significant collaborations with other departments, colleges and centers across campus including the emerging pathogens institute and the Universities’ translational research initiatives (CTSA). We enjoy substantial support from a university dedicated to the missions of research and education. Our residency program also hosts a Critical Care Medicine Fellowship in collaboration with the Department of Anesthesiology.
The Department provides medical direction for ShandsCair Medical Flight Teams (both a fixed wing and helicopter service), ShandsCair ground EMS services, Alachua County Fire Rescue services and local hazmat teams.
Faculty from our Department also provide primary medical direction for NASA medical support teams. Medical support team members receive special certification from NASA and participate in disaster training and onsite simulation in order to provide medical support for all NASA shuttle missions that originate from Cape Canaveral.
Our team at UF & Shands is dedicated to providing the highest quality of clinical emergency care. You will not find a group of faculty more dedicated to the College’s teaching mission or an atmosphere more open and collegial for residency training.
Please explore our site and contact us if you are interested in being part of our growing team at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Joseph A Tyndall, MD., MPH
Chairman and Clinical Associate Professor
Location: http://emergency.med.ufl.edu/index.shtml