We are committed to making significant contributions in Emergency Medicine through a positive impact on the lives of our residents, fellows, students, faculty, staff, patients, and the broader community via excellence in patient care, education, and research.

In July 2024, USF Emergency Medicine became an independent Department of Emergency Medicine at the Morsani College of Medicine, mirroring our longstanding hospital side status as a Department and demonstrating our leading status as an academic medical center. Prior to this, the Division of Emergency Medicine had been an academic unit within the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine since 2003. In addition, the University of South Florida is now part of the prestigious American Association of Universities and is a top-ranked public institute. As our division grows into a department and our University continues to gain preeminent status, our faculty have become national experts, leading emergency medicine by providing high-quality clinical care and innovating new approaches to health care delivery through research and implementation science.

Tampa General Hospital is the main USF partner in a large, expanding and cohesive academic healthcare system that provides care to millions of people in the West Gulf Coast Region of Florida. Our department provides medical direction of the main TGH ED, as well as two free-standing facilities in the area. While the majority of EM training will occur at TGH, the footprint of the EM program has expanded to include prehospital/EMS care delivery in the City of Tampa, as well as Pinellas County, Florida Poison Control, faculty collaborations with the VA, CAMLS (our simulation center), and Tampa Bay Street Medicine/IDEA Exchange.

In addition, through formal programs and faculty networks, interdisciplinary opportunities exist across the USF campus in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences (Anthropology), Business, and Public Health. As a mature academic healthcare system, USF offers exposure across almost all medical specialties. 

Mission

USF Health Emergency Medicine is committed to improving the lives of our patients through excellence in clinical care, education, and research. We ensure that all residents have the opportunity to enhance their knowledge and skills in an environment that allows them to reach their full potential. Our faculty are dedicated to advancing the specialty of EM through their innovation, scholarly work and dissemination. Our Department is committed to faculty development to ensure that the future of our specialty always offers more than the present.