The College maintains affiliation agreements with more than 100 health care agencies in USF s 15 county service area, offering students a wide range of clinical experience in both in patient and community facilities. College of Medicine is among the best in the nation in educating physicians for its home state. More than 60 percent of its residents remain in Florida. The college is renowned for cardiology, ophthalmology and immunology. The college places an increasing focus on primary care.
Admission is highly selective.
Each year, the college greceives more than 2,000 applications to fill 96 available positions. USF has the only College of Public Health in Florida. It is one of only 27 fully accredited public health colleges in the United States. USF s master s of Public Health program takes a multi-disciplinary approach to public health exploring the social, behavioral, legal, medical and economic factors affecting public health. Areas of concentration include community and family health, epidemiology and biostatistics, environmental and occupational health, and health policy and management.