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Turley Family Health Center (TFHC)

The heart of our residency program is the Turley Family Health Center (THFC), our state-of-the-art outpatient home. It is equipped with an electronic medical record integrated with that of our hospital system, computers in each of the 36 exam rooms, a wireless network, seven procedure rooms, spacious waiting rooms, and on-site laboratory and imaging services. Upstairs we have a lecture hall for daily noon conferences, a library, a conference room, and desk/office space for each resident. 

Family medicine clinic is woven into each rotation during the three years of residency, with the exception of night float and any away rotations. Interns have one half-day of clinic weekly, PGY-2 residents have one and one-half days weekly, and PGY-3 residents have two and one-half clinic days weekly. The number of patients seen in each half-day session increases throughout residency as the resident’s efficiency and skill increases. Residents become adept at billing & coding and EHR use in addition to providing high quality, evidenced-based medical care to patients of all ages. Procedures are scheduled both within family medicine clinic and in a separate dermatology clinic, and include dermatologic, gynecologic, and musculoskeletal procedures. Residents also spend time throughout residency in weight management, pharmacy, geriatrics, and sports medicine clinics at Turley. 

We perform approximately 25,000 office visits annually at the TFHC and care for patients of all ages with diverse medical problems. In addition to standard primary care, we offer maternity care, sports medicine consultation, behavioral health consultation, pharmacy consultation, ultrasound, weight management, and multiple procedures including skin procedures, joint injections, and gynecologic procedures.


Women’s Health Center at Turley

For more than 20 years, the Women’s Center at the Turley Family Health Center has been serving the healthcare needs of the women of our community, through generations and throughout all phases of their lives. Our obstetrical team and resident physicians deliver more than 350 babies every year. We offer full spectrum midwifery services. Our Cesarean section rate is below the national average. In addition to prenatal and postpartum care we offer routine well woman exams, breast exams, mammogram referrals and cervical cancer screening, colposcopy, LEEP, endometrial biopsy procedures, contraception counseling and management including LARC (long acting reversible contraception) options- Nexplanon, IUD insertion and removal procedures, STI testing and treatment. 

Weight Management

As part of our longitudinal Nutrition curriculum, our new Weight Management clinic is an exciting expansion of the Turley Family Health Center. Residents see a diverse age range of patients and treat them in a holistic perspective by addressing unique biopsychosocial concerns. Residents manage weight loss medications, counsel on diet and nutrition, recommend appropriate physical activity, and counsel on specific behavioral and risk factors inherent to obesity. This is also a multidisciplinary service, with nutrition, pharmacy, physical therapy, and behavioral assistance available to our patients.

Jacobsen Teaching Kitchen

Through a generous grant from the MPMHC Foundation, we’re excited to offer hands-on culinary and lifestyle medicine experiences in our Jacobsen Teaching Kitchen. This state-of-the-art kitchen is dedicated to the philosophy that food is medicine, emphasizing how good nutrition serves as a cornerstone in preventing and managing chronic disease while optimizing patient outcomes. In the Jacobsen Teaching Kitchen, patients participate in dietitian-and-physician-led cooking classes where they learn to prepare wholesome, budget-friendly, culturally diverse, and medically tailored meals. This initiative also extends to our resident physicians, who receive immersive experiences in culinary and lifestyle medicine to further support the communities they serve. 

PERx Program

Alongside the Jacobsen Teaching Kitchen, we offer the Personalized Exercise Prescription Program, PERx, which promotes exercise as medicine. PERx provides customized exercise and rehabilitation programs designed by a physical therapy assistant, helping patients improve energy, mood, sleep, weight, strength, and overall quality of life. These tailored plans focus on goal-setting and include home exercise/rehab routines, allowing patients to manage minor injuries and joint or muscle conditions with confidence.  

These programs give our family medicine residents hands-on experience integrating lifestyle medicine into clinical practice.

Florida Academy of Family Physicians (FAFP)

Our program supports two resident representatives to attend quarterly Florida Academy of Family Physician meetings. At the meetings the residents are actively involved with FL Family Medicine Residents and Students meeting, and they are also encouraged to be involved with various committee meetings. Our faculty will often present workshops and lectures at the FAFP meetings as well, and they are active participants in various FAFP committees and initiatives. 

We have amazing residents!  

In 2024, Dr. Michele Bohlmann was selected from amongst all Florida Family Medicine residents to receive the FAFP Exceptional Resident Scholar Award. This was even more special as she was our third resident in a row to be selected for this prestigious award! Our 2023 winner was Dr. Brad Bindas, and our 2022 recipient was Dr. Tisha Van Pelt. 

We also work with the FAFP to have faculty and residents attend the “Doctor of the Day” program in Tallahassee, where attendants treat legislative staff and participate in lobbying for topics pertinent to practicing primary care in Florida.

To learn more, visit Florida Academy of Family Physicians (FAFP) 

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

In 2019 one of our PGY-1 residents, Dr. Ainslee Juarbe, was selected to receive the AAFP Foundation Family Medicine Leads Emerging Leaders Scholarship. 

In 2017 our program received the AAFP Family Medicine Cares Resident Service award. The project that was funded was titled “Telemedicine, the Modern Day House Call”, which integrated telemedicine “home visits” into the existing Turley Family Health Center diabetes program. The project’s goal was to extend the reach, increase accessibility and improve continuity of care among uninsured Type II diabetic patients.

To learn more, visit American Academy of Family Physicians | AAFP.

BRIDGE Healthcare Clinic

USF hosts a weekly student-run free clinic which provides outstanding care to the local community in need as well as excellent education on interdisciplinary care.  Our residents serve as medical student preceptors for this clinic any time they want to volunteer. 

To learn more, visit BRIDGE Healthcare Clinic and USF Connections