Jessie Trice Community Health System, Inc. Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a new Teaching Health Center-funded Family Medicine residency based at Jessie Trice Community Health System, a federally qualified health center (FQHC) that has served low-income, uninsured, and predominantly minority patients in Miami-Dade County since 1967. The program's stated mission is explicitly health-equity driven, built on the premise that physicians trained in underserved settings are more likely to practice in similar settings after graduation, and residents rotate through JTCHS's own integrated services (pediatrics, women's health, psychiatry, behavioral health, optometry, podiatry) alongside inpatient partnerships at North Shore Medical Center, Jackson Memorial, and Larkin Community Hospital. With only four residents per class in its inaugural cohort, the program emphasizes a weekly academic half-day covering evidence-based medicine, procedural skills, practice management, and wellness rather than a research-heavy curriculum. Its identity is that of a safety-net, community health center-based training ground oriented toward producing full-scope family physicians committed to underserved primary care rather than subspecialization.