HCA Florida Healthcare-Kendall Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a new, community-based, four-year categorical neurology program at HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, a Level 1 trauma center in Miami, with additional inpatient rotations at HCA Florida Aventura Hospital and outpatient exposure at WeMind Institute and Design Neuroscience Center. The program is small (three residents per year) and explicitly positions itself as a ground-floor opportunity where trainees help shape curriculum and culture rather than step into an established academic hierarchy. Scholarly activity (research, QI, or case report) is a graduation requirement supported by a dedicated Division Research Director and Research Coordinator, but the emphasis is on structured completion of a project rather than sustained investigative output, and the curriculum otherwise centers on broad clinical exposure across inpatient consults, neurocritical care, epilepsy/EMU, EMG, and child neurology. The stated goal is producing clinically competent, autonomous general neurologists rather than subspecialty academicians, within an HCA system that foregrounds resident wellness and belonging as institutional priorities.