University of Miami-Jackson Health System Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is the nation's first family medicine residency (est. 1965), an academically-affiliated safety-net program built around Jackson Memorial Hospital, a 1,550+ bed public tertiary hospital, alongside UHealth's academic subspecialty depth, the Miami VA, and Jefferson Reaves Sr. Health Center, a resident continuity clinic in Overtown serving a predominantly Spanish- and Haitian Creole-speaking population. The curriculum embeds dedicated research blocks in PGY2/3 and offers named tracks (sports medicine, women's health, geriatrics, hospice/palliative, lifestyle medicine, inpatient medicine, academic medicine, research), with a demonstrated fellowship pipeline concentrated in sports medicine, palliative care, and geriatrics. The program explicitly foregrounds social determinants of health, multiculturalism, and health equity advocacy for underserved, immigrant, and multilingual populations as core to its identity rather than incidental. It appears to value applicants with genuine longitudinal commitment to underserved, culturally diverse care and comfort operating in a high-acuity public hospital environment.