Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, Inc Milwaukee - South Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a young, mission-driven community health center residency, based at the F&MCW Forest Home Health Center in Milwaukee's 53204 zip code, built specifically to train family physicians for a large, underserved Latino/Spanish-speaking population while leveraging Froedtert/MCW/Children's Wisconsin academic resources. The program's defining feature is its Spanish Immersion Curriculum and bilingual infrastructure (including a fully Spanish-translated website), paired with named tracks in Maternal and Child Health, Advanced OB, Sports Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, Global Health, and Academic Medicine, plus integrated behavioral health, addiction medicine/MAT, and community-based research. It functions as a hybrid academic-community model, governed in part by a Patient and Community Advisory Board, signaling that community accountability and continuity of care are as central to its identity as clinical training itself. Resident testimonials consistently emphasize cultural humility, advocacy, and serving the specific South Side population rather than generic clinical breadth, and the faculty culture is described as close-knit with residents frequently staying on as faculty.