Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a university-based internal medicine program whose clinical training occurs entirely at three community hospitals (Boca Raton Regional, Bethesda Hospital East, Delray Medical Center) within the Baptist Health South Florida and Tenet systems, giving residents a large-volume, geriatric-heavy community patient population rather than a single quaternary academic center. The program pairs a structured 4+1 ambulatory block schedule and two continuity clinics with an active scholarly infrastructure (REDCap access, dedicated biostatistics support, a formal research curriculum, and a heavy year-over-year output of case reports and regional/national poster presentations), signaling that scholarly activity is a built-in expectation rather than an optional add-on. Career messaging is explicitly dual-track, supporting residents heading into primary care, hospitalist practice, or subspecialty fellowship, in both community and academic settings, with co-located fellowships (cardiology) and residencies (EM, surgery, neurology, psychiatry) at its hospital partners enabling cross-specialty exposure. The program appears to value residents who can function with progressive autonomy in a community hospital environment while still producing case-based scholarly work for regional (Palm Beach County Medical Society, Florida ACP/ACG) and national meetings.