Cleveland Clinic Foundation-Florida Weston Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a mid-sized academic-community hybrid program embedded within Cleveland Clinic Florida's tertiary/quaternary Weston campus, offering high case volume (21,000+ annual anesthetics) with complex subspecialty exposure including transplant (liver, kidney, cardiac), structural heart, and robotic orthopedic anesthesia across dedicated subspecialty teams. The program's small scale (five residents per class, 25 attendings) fosters close faculty-resident relationships rather than large-institution anonymity, with pediatric and obstetric training offloaded to affiliated sites (Nicklaus Children's Hospital, HCA Kendall) to round out exposure. Research is structurally supported through the Cleveland Clinic Anesthesia Outcomes Research Consortium and multicenter trials (POISE-3, COP-AF, ACTIV-4), and residents complete a mentored, self-selected research review in CA-3, though outcomes data show the program's primary output is fellowship-bound graduates (cardiac, pediatric, pain, regional/acute pain) rather than academic faculty per se. The program explicitly states it seeks candidates with a genuine calling to medicine, attention to detail, and service orientation, alongside academic strength, within an internally described "hard-working but relaxed" culture.