Mission Statement

The Department of CHFM commits to creating and maintaining a hospitalist/leadership fellowship (one fellow per year for one year duration) with the purpose of training hospitalists skilled in comprehensive hospital medicine, which includes, critical care, hospital administration, quality improvement, and teaching skills. In addition, the fellowship will focus on hospital and academic leadership, which will give the graduate skills necessary to lead a hospitalist group and/or be an effective leader in academic medicine and hospital administration. 

Philosophy

We feel that care of the hospitalized patient is one of the core values of Family Medicine. We also feel that family medicine graduates all have the capacity and competency to see and care for hospitalized patients. In the era of hospitalist only practices, we feel that further training offers certain advantages for those seeking such positions. 

The first advantage is an issue of proficiency. While all family medicine residency programs train residents in the care of the hospitalized patients, relatively few give graduates the proficiency to manage a combination of 15-20 ICU and non-ICU hospitalized patients in a day right out of residency. Our program offers that experience. Additionally we feel that leadership development is important for our graduates, as they should be of the best-trained hospitalist physicians. To protect the care of the hospitalized patient as a core value for family medicine, we need and intend to train highly competent and proficient physicians who can lead family medicine into the future. 

Goals:

1. Develop competency and excellence with clinical skills in the area of hospital medicine
2. Leadership and academic/educational development
• Understand the roles and responsibility of hospital administration - CEO to chief of staff
• Understand and participate in hospital administrative governance meetings
• Participate in faculty and academic development

Hospitalist/Leadership Fellowship Requirements

1. Applicants should expect to have finished a 3-year family medicine, internal medicine or osteopathic equivalent residency program prior to starting the fellowship.
2. Applicants must be eligible to sit for the Family Medicine or Internal Medicine Board Certification Exam.
3. Applicants will need to be able to obtain an unrestricted medical license (allopathic or osteopathic) from the state of Florida and able to fulfill billing requirements for Medicare, Medicaid and major insurance carriers. Fellowship cannot start without a license.

Schedule requirements:

1. The fellowship is divided in to 2 sections based upon a 13 four week blocks. 7 blocks are dedicated to working on the hospitalist service with one 2-week period on the residency teaching service. The other 6 are scheduled around electives and education activities.
2. Weekend coverage, work hours and rotation schedule is the same as for the rest of the hospitalist group.
3. Night float coverage requirements are the same as for the hospitalist group and will be approximately 3-4 times over the year.

Benefits:

1. Fellow will receive and one year clinical position with the University of Florida as an Adjunct Clinical Post Doctoral Associate. Salary is between that of a PGY-4 resident at the University of Florida and $60,000 for the year. Final salary will be determined by experience and finalized when the fellowship directors make a formal invitation of employment.
2. Health, dental, etc to be determined as usual policy for the Department of CHFM.
3. The fellow will be supported to attend the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine annual meeting in the spring or equivalent.
4. Membership in the Society of Hospital Medicine will be provided.
5. Vacation will be 15-week days (M-F), schedule coordinated with Fellowship Directors.
6. Holiday coverage: The fellow will be expected to cover one of the three major holidays (Christmas, New Years, or Thanksgiving) preference to be worked out with Fellowship Directors and hospitalist group. Other holidays will be covered as with the rest of the hospitalist group.

Application Process

Applications will be accepted and reviewed from September 1 through October 31. Interviews will be offered for the month of November to the beginning of the Christmas holidays. Position offers will be extended starting January 1.

Application should include:

1. Cover letter
• Statement why you are interested in this program
• Contact information
2. Copy of USMLE board scores (if less than 5 years from graduating residency) 
3. Copy of your most recent board certification if you are not just finishing residency
4. Letter of support from your residency director (if less than 5 years from graduating)
• Letter from employer or chief of staff if you have been out of residency for more than 5 years
5. 2 letters of support from colleagues or faculty
6. Curriculum Vitae

Please send or email application materials to:

Sherri Swilley, Coordinator
Department of Community Health and Family Medicine
University of Florida
PO Box 100237
Gainesville, FL 32610-0237

sherrim@ufl.edu

Key Faculty

David M. Quillen, MD
Co-Director, Educational
Associate Professor
Department of Community Health and Family Medicine

quillen@ufl.edu

 

Barry Zalman, MD
Co-Director, Administrative
Assistant Professor
Department of Community Health and Family Medicine

kbzal@ufl.edu