Brooklyn Hospital Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency is a community-based, safety-net program built around a patient-centered medical home model, with residents assigned continuity patient panels from day one across multiple community sites (Downtown Campus, La Providencia, Williamsburg Family Health Center, St. Felix) serving diverse, medically and socially complex Brooklyn populations. The curriculum is inpatient-heavy and hospitalist-oriented, with a busy family medicine inpatient service run by FM-trained hospitalists, daily multidisciplinary rounds, and a strong inpatient geriatrics experience, reflecting the program's explicit emphasis on preparing residents for hospitalist and community practice roles. Research is present but modest in scope—two PI projects and at least one research project per resident, with GME funding for conference presentations—positioning scholarly work as a structured expectation rather than a defining identity. Graduates go on to hospitalist medicine, urgent care, leadership roles, fellowships and academics, indicating a program that values self-directed, clinically resilient residents comfortable managing high-acuity, socially complex patients within an integrated single-network training experience.