Larkin Community Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Larkin Community Hospital's Family Medicine program is a community-based, safety-net residency operating out of a South Miami teaching hospital, built around an FQHC patient-centered medical home mission and a broad multi-site network (Nicklaus Children's, community health centers, dermatology, sports medicine, and pain clinics) that gives residents wide outpatient subspecialty exposure. A distinguishing structural feature is its Rural Track, Florida's first ACGME-designated Rural Track in Family Medicine, which sends residents after PGY-1 to two years at an upstate New York FQHC in partnership with LECOM, explicitly training physicians for full-spectrum, resource-limited rural practice. The institution maintains a structured Department of Research and Academic Affairs offering scholarly mentorship, IRB support, and named research internships, but this infrastructure is supplemental rather than central to the program's identity, which is oriented toward producing board-certified generalists and, secondarily, fellowship-track subspecialists. The program values adaptability, community commitment, and comfort working across underserved and geographically diverse settings, from urban South Florida to rural Upstate New York.