Florida International University - Baptist Health Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a small, community-based neurology residency (4 residents/year) built on a new academic partnership between FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and Baptist Health South Florida, training primarily at Baptist Hospital of Miami's Neuroscience Institute with pediatric neurology exposure at Nicklaus Children's Hospital. The program integrates a PGY1 preliminary medicine year and offers broad subspecialty elective exposure (movement disorders, epilepsy, neuromuscular, neurocritical care, neuroimmunology) rather than a single named track, explicitly preparing graduates for either community or academic neurology practice. Research is present and structured—dedicated PGY4 research/elective blocks, an institutional research scholarship course, and an annual research symposium—but the program's identity centers on solid comprehensive clinical training at a high-volume community/tertiary hospital rather than a research-driven or subspecialty-fellowship pipeline. As a newer program riding a large institutional investment (new Baptist-FIU clinical/education building, expanding GME infrastructure), it appears to value clinically versatile residents who can thrive in a growing, hospital-based system serving a large South Florida population.