Educational Affairs

More medical and physician assistant students are completing rotations on our campus.

By Frank Genuardi, M.D., M.P.H.

The University of Florida colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy are major sources for education and training in Jacksonville. This article will focus on undergraduate medical education at the UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville.

Faculty and residents continue to provide excellent education to students in Jacksonville. The chart below shows the number of rotation weeks completed on our campus by various students over time. Third- and fourth-year medical students, as well as physician assistant students, are accounted for in the chart, which includes the recently completed 2017-18 academic year.

UGME chart

Rotations are offered to medical and physician assistant students from the UF College of Medicine in Gainesville, as well as students from other medical schools. They are not only able to take advantage of excellent educational experiences, but also have opportunities to learn more about our many residency training programs. In the most recently completed main residency match in March, 36 percent of individuals who matched at UF COMJ had completed at least one student rotation here.

The end of the academic year is a time for celebration. Our fourth-year medical students graduated May 19 and are moving into the next phase of their education as resident physicians. This graduating class selected the department of pediatrics to receive the Golden Apple Award in Clinical Sciences as the best clinical teaching department in Gainesville and Jacksonville.

Also, our clinical-year physician assistant students graduated June 16. They are now eligible for full licensure and can enter practice in a variety of specialties.

Resident physicians recognized

Several of our residents were recognized for their research at a May 21 poster session as part of the Duval County Medical Society’s Future in Healthcare Conference. The winners were:

  • First Place: Kanishk Jha, M.D., pediatrics
    “Visceral Adipose Index (VAI) can accurately predict markers of cardiometabolic risk in children”
  • Second Place: Satish Maharaj, M.D., internal medicine
    “Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) testing at UF Health Jacksonville”
  • Third Place: Kumar Sambhav, M.D., surgery
    “Deep capillary macular perfusion indices obtained with OCTA correlated with degree of NPDR”

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Frank Genuardi, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Dean for Student Affairs; Clerkship Director; Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Frank Genuardi, M.D., M.P.H., is an associate professor of pediatrics and associate dean for student affairs with the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville. Genuardi is also clerkship director for the department of pediatrics and director of web services for the UF Health Science Center Jacksonville. As part of the college’s Office of Educational Affairs, he oversees the third- and fourth-year medical student clerkship programs on the Jacksonville campus. In addition, he serves as the faculty liaison overseeing the Jacksonville campus website, hscj.ufl.edu.

Genuardi joined UF in 1994 as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor and assistant dean of undergraduate medical education in 2001. He was promoted to associate dean for student affairs in 2007.

Genuardi received his medical degree from the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa, and completed his pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia. He completed a fellowship in adolescent medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Alabama in Birmingham while concurrently earning a master of public health degree at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. He is board-certified in pediatrics.

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