Florida International University-Veterans Affairs Medical Center Miami Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a VA-anchored university-affiliated internal medicine residency built around an ambulatory-care-focused curriculum, with residents spending the majority of each training year in VA outpatient clinics longitudinally alongside VA inpatient wards, ICU, geriatrics, and subspecialty rotations, supplemented by inpatient and emergency medicine experience at Jackson Memorial Hospital, a large county safety-net referral center. The program serves a veteran population with additional exposure to underserved South Florida patients through Jackson, giving it a dual identity as both a continuity-of-care/geriatrics-oriented outpatient training ground and a high-acuity urban safety-net inpatient experience. Research is structurally present but not central: residents can engage in scholarship, QI, advocacy, and health care administration projects, and the affiliated FIU College of Medicine has active geriatrics research infrastructure (Benjamin León Center) and an annual symposium where IM residents have presented, but nothing suggests a fellowship pipeline or academic productivity mandate. The program appears to value residents comfortable with longitudinal primary-care-style continuity in a veteran population, system-based practice, and a broad generalist skill set rather than early subspecialty focus.