Residents serve as their patients' primary physician at their designated continuity clinic during their training. Continuity clinics are assigned as an afternoon at either 17 Davis or Healthpark. Throughout their three years of training, residents keep the same continuity clinic day, allowing them to work with a consistent group of residents and faculty weekly. Residents see patients from birth through age 21 for health maintenance and a variety of acute and chronic conditions. Residents manage family and psychosocial issues, behavioral and school problems, and interact with social work and local schools. They deal with issues of practice management (i.e. pharmaceutical coverage, insurance, referrals) and utilize EPIC EMR at both sites. Both clinics are part of a medical home program for children with special healthcare needs. We also have Healthy Steps parent support specialists to assist families and residents at both clinics. Our pre-clinic conferences utilize a primary care curriculum. Residents work with 3^rd and 4^th year medical students during their clinics. 

Both clinics have Reach Out and Read (ROR) programs and strongly support literacy promotion by providing books for children from birth through 6 yo.  

The community-based experience is available to all PL2 and PL3 residents and provides longitudinal exposure at either a private practice, community health clinic, or specialty clinic. The site is chosen based on the resident’s future career interests. Residents who plan to pursue fellowship training may choose a clinic in their chosen subspecialty. All subspecialties, as well as emergency medicine and hospital medicine, are available. This provides residents the opportunity to develop a relationship with a mentor in their field of interest, receive additional clinical experience, and conduct research.

Residents rotate through two primary care clinics-Healthpark and 17 Davis. These sites serve a diverse patient population including underserved and migrant children, children with special health care needs, and middle-class families. Procedures such as laceration repair, I & Ds, nebulization treatments, point-of-care and rapid antigen testing (strep, RSV, influenza, COVID) can be performed in the clinic. Residents play an active role in teaching medical and physician assistant students at both sites.

There is a structured telephone triage educational experience for PL2 and PL3 residents. This includes responding to parent calls during a few evenings and weekends during the ambulatory rotation. The calls are discussed with the on-call attending and residents receive direct feedback.

Interns have a 1-month Development rotation, spending time at a variety of clinics, including the Early Intervention Program (EIP), Development Clinic, Neonatal Neurodevelopmental Clinic, Neuropsychiatry Clinic, and Complex Care Clinic. Residents also interacting with children with developmental delays and special needs. Residents will gain experience in the evaluation, screening, and assessment of children and teenagers with behavioral and developmental problems.

The adolescent medicine rotation is a diverse, fun, and interesting month with multiple different experiences. We have three board-certified adolescent medicine physicians and a full-time social worker. Residents rotate through the adolescent medicine clinic, university student health, adolescent bariatric clinic, multi-disciplinary eating disorder clinics, and Ybor Youth Clinic which treats high-risk youth.