College of Medicine

Our Local Area

Our residents and staff love all that Fort Myers offers. Living here is the best of both worlds, you'll enjoy the small-town feel right next to the beautiful Gulf of Mexico, as well as quick access to larger metropolitan areas. Miami, Tampa, and Fort Lauderdale are all within a two-hour drive.

What we love about Fort Myers

Outdoors

• Explore Florida's natural waterways through fishing, paddle boarding, kayaking.
• If you want to keep your feet dry, Florida has state & regional parks, bike & running trails, and over 104 local golf courses.
• And who doesn't love spending time at the beach, Lee county alone, has 17 beaches to enjoy

Food!

• Florida's local food scene includes seasonal farmer’s markets, micro-breweries, and fresh-caught seafood

Art and Music

• Downtown Fort Myers hosts monthly Art and Music festivals, and the Sidney Berne & Davis Art Center has regular gallery showings of local artists
• The Barbra B Mann Performing Arts Hall hosts prominent entertainers, dance performances, popular ensembles and classical music concerts year-round

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Community Engagement

We see community outreach as an integral part of being a family medicine physician. Our program serves a population with significant health disparities and are always looking for ways to engage with our local area to combat these disparities. Here are just some of the programs we partner with:

Our resident physicians and faculty partner work with teen mothers and young women along with the PACE Center and LAMP, providing educational programming.

We work with local high schools to provide required sports physicals, including travelling to Immokalee, a historically unserved migrant-worker population.

Residents, faculty and our nursing staff join alongside community members at Utopia Unisex Salon to get to know our community's health needs, check blood pressure, and offer supportive services at barbershop wellness.