Why Internal Medicine Residency at FAU?

Picking a residency program is a challenging task. You want to know if you'll like the area, the program, the people. You want to know what the program is like on a day-to-day basis (not just on the fancy interview day). You want to know what life is like outside of work because you will have days off! Well, we asked the residents on our recruitment committee "Why should someone come to FAU for residency? What is so great about South Florida?" Here are their responses.

Best of Everything

• Perfectly sized program (not too large, not too small) with residents from varied backgrounds.
• Culture is inviting and fun with a friendly teaching style
• Interns feel there is a safe learning curve with a 3 interns per team in the beginning of the year (allowing <10 patients per intern)

Focus on Academics

• Employed by the University, working at hospitals associated with large healthcare systems including Baptist Health South Florida and Tenet Healthcare allows great breadth of experiences
• Academic-minded with a culture of teaching, from faculty members down to the interns teaching medical students
• Faculty provide useful feedback
• Access to UpToDate as well as the FAU library (textbooks and journals)

Responsive Administration

• Administration uses resources to benefit residents. (ex: coffee machines, study resources, healthy snacks and beverages, wellness events)
• Administration is receptive to resident ideas regarding changes to policy
• Dr. Ferris provides regular email updates keeping all residents informed

Great Schedule

• 4 + 1 schedule prevents burnout and provides golden weekend every 5th week
• Personal Improvement (PI) time during clinic to allow for appointments
• No 24-hr call on any rotations
• At least 1 day off in 7 for all rotations

Learn more about our residency rotations

Career Mentorship

• Lots of guidance/mentorship provided towards attaining professional goals
• FAU Fellowships in Cardiology, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, and Pulmonary-Critical Care Medicine. 
• Great match rates into competitive fellowships
• Semi-Annual performance reviews are completed by PD/APDs

Faculty

• Clinical faculty is highly trained
• 1-on-1 time with specialists during elective rotations gives great insight into each specialty, makes it easy to build rapport and get LORs

Competitive Benefits

• Free parking
• Biweekly food stipends for the cafeterias at Boca and Bethesda
• State benefits
• Financial support for travel to national meetings to present scholarly work
• Owl Card allows discounts at area merchants plus FAU athletics tickets

See all salary and benefits information

Board Prep

• MKSAP provided for all trainees beginning in PGY2 year
• Dedicated ABIM prep sessions in late Spring for PGY3s
• $1200 education stipend yearly to use for educational materials

Excellent Graduate Placement

• Residents find excellent internal medicine jobs across the country
• Outstanding placement in excellent fellowships

See fellowship and job placements for our residents

Location

• 15-minute (or less) door-to-beach time!
• Florida weather = 365 days of summer
• Boca Raton, Delray Beach, and Boynton Beach are fun, safe locations to live and offer a wide variety of activities, food, music, and more
• Only a short drive to Miami, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale
• Easy day trip to Orlando, Key West, Tampa