Cleveland Clinic Foundation-Florida Weston Program

Program Identity & Fit

Cleveland Clinic Foundation/Florida Weston is a large, academically affiliated tertiary/quaternary referral program embedded within a multi-site Cleveland Clinic system, drawing a distinctly international patient population from South Florida, the Caribbean, and South America and managing high-acuity subspecialty cases including heart, liver, and kidney transplant recipients. The categorical curriculum emphasizes a 6+2 block structure with longitudinal continuity clinic from intern year, structured selectives spanning nearly every subspecialty, dedicated POCUS and simulation training, and a required scholarly activity presented at Research Week, reflecting a program that builds procedural and diagnostic competence alongside a baseline research expectation rather than a research mandate for all. Graduate outcomes split heavily between hospitalist/primary care practice (often staying within the Cleveland Clinic Florida system) and competitive subspecialty fellowships (cardiology, pulm/critical care, GI, nephrology, ID), indicating the program values residents who can function with high autonomy in complex inpatient care while also pursuing individualized subspecialty or generalist career paths. The program explicitly favors applicants who signal genuine interest and geographic commitment to Florida, and consistently retains many of its own graduates into hospitalist and fellowship positions on-site, suggesting an institutional culture oriented toward long-term identification with the Cleveland Clinic system.