We are proud to be a teaching facility, offering several unique programs and the longest standing Family Medicine Residency program in the state of Florida, as well as clinics in Sports Medicine providing extensive outpatient experience in problems related to physical activity.
We have teams to care for patients in a disease-centered format and processes to ensure that every patient is made a priority, allowing for continuous quality improvement that can be accomplished with the diverse teams we have assembled.
To recruit and train a diverse group of residents that will embrace and actively promote whole-person healthcare, the biopsychosocial and spiritual model, and the idea that all people are deserving of equitable healthcare.
To provide full-spectrum family medicine training with an emphasis on professionalism, patient safety, and leadership in an effort to prepare all graduates to be skilled, competent, and compassionate physicians in any setting.
To serve our community by providing a wide range of high-quality patient-centered medical and mental health services in a courteous, efficient, and cost-effective manner to a diverse patient population.
To provide an educational environment that promotes wellness and cultivates skills necessary to maintain well-being while meeting the business and professional demands of the practice of medicine.
Halifax Health - Family Medicine Residency Program is committed to serve our community and develop physicians with skills to reduce healthcare disparities and cultivate a culture that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. Halifax Health - Family Medicine Residency Program competitive scholarship program offers one to two full housing scholarships to support underrepresented in medicine (URiM) fourth-year medical students during a one-month externship.
URiM as defined by our Halifax Health - Family Medicine Residency Program includes underrepresented race and ethnicities, LGBTQ+, students with disabilities, low socioeconomic status, first-generation to college, and first-generation immigrants.
2025 Important Dates:
Application Period Opens: February 1, 2025
Rolling Applications: First Come First Served
Please CLICK HERE to submit your application online. Following completion, further instructions will be provided on how to submit required documents.
› Three-week rotations which allow for 17 rotations each year lending increased opportunity for flexibility, electives, and improved resident wellness
› Maximum elective time allowed by ACGME to tailor your education to your unique interests
› Private clinic with your own patient panel in Center for Family & Sports Medicine, with clinic time increasing each year
› Dedicated procedure rotations, including performance of colposcopy, long-acting reversible contraceptive insertion and removal, endometrial biopsy, minor skin procedures, exercise treadmill testing, circumcision, joint injections
› Sports Medicine rotations with exposure to ultrasound guided joint injections, opportunity to join training room rounds at local colleges, complete athletic physical exams, and provide side-line coverage for team sports as the team physician
› Robust OB/GYN experiences with GYN dedicated rotation, labor and delivery floor experience, and high-volume prenatal clinics
› Both inpatient and outpatient pediatric experiences provide training by both core faculty and pediatricians, with high-volume pediatric clinics, inpatient pediatric rotations during all 3 years of training, and outpatient general pediatric and subspecialty pediatric training
› Inpatient rotations are completed with your core faculty dedicated to your education and professional development
› All rotations are located at our main campus, Halifax Health Medical Center of Daytona Beach
Our broad-spectrum experiences prepare our graduates to practice in many different settings or to successfully obtain fellowship positions. Recent graduates have gone on to practice traditional outpatient family medicine, practices that include obstetrics, as inpatient hospitalists, in academic medicine, with international missions, in urgent care, and in rural America. In addition, our graduates have successfully obtained positions in many fellowships across the country including addiction medicine, hospice and palliative medicine, dermatology, pain medicine, sports medicine, and women's health.
Our residency program offers nine areas of concentration (AOC) to enhance education for residents. These areas of concentration (AOC) provide residents with an additional opportunity to work one on one with faculty to tailor their electives and experiences to meet their education and career goals.
Healthcare Disparities
Women’s Health
Sports Medicine
Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Pediatrics
Academic Medicine
Leadership and Advocacy
Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine
Emergency Medicine
In addition to our AOCs, we have dedicated LGBTQ health, anti-racism, POCUS, substance use disorders, and OMT curricula.
› First year: 8 residents
› Second year: 8 residents
› Third year: 8 residents
› Sports Medicine Fellowship: 1 fellow
› Women's Health Fellowship: 1 fellow
Our residency program utilizes an overnight call system, instead of a night float system. This overnight call system provides residents with meaningful exposure to acute inpatient medicine, while promoting continuity of care, resident wellness, and progressive clinical autonomy.
Call Structure
Residents begin their regular daytime clinical duties and transition to overnight responsibilities at 5:00 PM, continuing through 7:00 AM the following day. During this period, the on-call team is responsible for:
› Managing the resident-led adult inpatient medicine services
› Providing cross-coverage for obstetric and pediatric inpatients
› Responding to hospital-wide rapid responses
› Attending code blue events when an in-house intensivist is unavailable
› Each call shift includes one intern and one senior resident (either PGY-2 or PGY-3). The senior supervises the intern and provides oversight on critical decision-making.
Call Frequency
› Interns (PGY-1): Approximately 45–47 call shifts per year (~every 8 days)
› PGY-2 Residents: Approximately 29 call shifts per year (~every 12–13 days)
› PGY-3 Residents: Approximately 16 call shifts per year (~every 22–23 days)
Time Off and Wellness
› After each call shift, residents are guaranteed 24 hours off-duty.
› Every resident receives at least one full day off per week in addition to their post call days in compliance with ACGME duty hour regulations.
Benefits of the Overnight Call Model
Our call model provides residents with continuous patient care, fostering ownership and deeper clinical insight. It offers spaced repetition across adult medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics, while enhancing decision-making through hands-on experience in managing critical situations like rapid responses and code blues. The model promotes progressive autonomy, pairs junior and senior residents for team-based learning, and ensures resident wellness with guaranteed time off post-call and weekly days off to prevent burnout.
We offer high-quality didactic sessions over the lunch hour, both in person and virtually. These didactic sessions include morbidity and mortality conferences, journal clubs, and faculty-led presentations. Twice per month, we have afternoon workshop sessions. Our procedural workshops are focused on hands-on learning, which include sports medicine procedures, MSK special testing, POCUS, women’s health procedures, OMT and more. Our didactic workshops are focused on providing in-depth education on topics that are high yield in family medicine. The didactic workshop is case-based, small-group learning with short lectures aimed at adult learning models. Twice per week, we hold morning report resident-led, case-based presentations.
Twice per month, Halifax Health - Continuing Education has a 60-minute Grand Rounds presentation of timely medical topics pertinent to primary care. Residents and faculty participate in these presentations.
Salary
› PGY-1 year: $59,900
› PGY-2 year: $62,000
› PGY-3 year: $64,400
› Sports Medicine Fellow: $67,900
› Women's Health Fellow: $67,000
› Four weeks personal leave days, plus five days CME per year
› Continuing education allowance:
$1,500 per PGY-1 year , $2,000 for both PGY-2 and PGY-3 years
› Life and disability insurance provided
› Health and dental insurance available
› Malpractice insurance provided
› ACLS, PALS, ALSO, and NRP certification
› USMLE or COMLEX 3 fees
› American Board of Family Medicine certification fee
› All fees paid for State of Florida medical licensure and DEA registration
› Cafeteria meals provided while on duty
› iPad for clinical work
› Lab coats and scrubs
› Free use of Halifax Health - Fitness Center, with reduced rates for families
› $1,000 moving allowance
Halifax Health - Family Medicine Residency Program (FMRP) values diversity issues in the education and training of our residents. In keeping with our commitment to graduate exceptionally qualified, well-rounded physicians, we feel that exposure to, and training in diversity issues in healthcare is very important. In addition to providing a Health Disparities Area of Concentration, the program offers a series of lectures on culturally responsive healthcare, social determinants of health, and anti-racism efforts in healthcare.
These conferences provide training experiences that explore the influence of cultural factors on medical beliefs and practices, and the effects of personal cultural background on staff relationships and physician-patient interactions. Our community medicine elective provides residents the opportunity to do outreach with underserved groups in our area and residents are given the chance to do QI projects relevant to the underserved populations in our community. As a program, we stand firmly against racism and pledge to work to dismantle inequities in healthcare and society in general.
In our efforts to continue to develop these aspects of our program, we offer 1-2 rotation scholarships to students from underrepresented groups per year and welcome any prospective residents who have an interest in these areas to consider applying. Our program embraces, accepts, and promotes diversity with regard to cultural background, sexual orientation, faith background, and other social/cultural identities. We strongly encourage students from under-represented groups to apply.
Applicants who have passed with one of the following qualifications are eligible for appointment:
› Graduates of medical schools in the United States and Canada accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) within the last three years
› Graduates of osteopathic medicine in the United States accredited by the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation within the last three years
› All applicants must have passed USMLE or COMLEX 1 and 2
› Graduates of medical schools outside the United States and Canada who meet the following qualifications:
- US citizenship or permanent resident status. We do not sponsor visas
- Graduation from medical school within the last three years
- Current ECFMG certification at the time of application. A copy of the ECFMG certification must be furnished
- Minimum 12 months US clinical experience working with patients, required
- Passing scores on USMLE Steps 1 and 2, first attempt
- Eligible to obtain a medical license in accordance with the Department of Health/Medical Quality Assurance division of the Florida Board of Medicine
Halifax Health is the area's largest healthcare provider with a tertiary and community hospital with 678 licensed beds and more than 500 physicians on its medical staff representing 56 medical specialties. Halifax Health Medical Center of Daytona Beach includes the largest and most comprehensive medical center on Central Florida’s East Coast and has been recognized nationally by National Research Corporation for its programs, outcomes, and consumer satisfaction.
Beds: 678
Admissions: 28,543
Births: 1,318
Surgical Procedures: 17,603
Center for Family & Sports Medicine Visits: 18,381
Emergency Department Visits: 104,809
Urgent Care Visits: 3,687
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To be the community healthcare leader through exceptional talent and superior patient-centered service delivered in a financially sustainable manner.
To develop talented teams dedicated to providing competent, accountable patient-centered healthcare in a financially sustainable manner.
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