Larkin Community Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Larkin's Neurology Residency is a community-based, four-year categorical program built on an extensive network of hospital and private-practice continuity sites across Miami-Dade and Broward counties, giving residents heavy outpatient subspecialty exposure (EMG/NCS, EEG/epilepsy, movement disorders, MS, neuro-ophthalmology, sleep, pain) largely through affiliated private practitioners rather than a single academic department. Stroke training is anchored at two Comprehensive/Primary Stroke Centers (Palm Springs and HCA Kendall), pediatric neurology occurs at Nicklaus Children's Hospital, and behavioral neurology/dementia training occurs at Mount Sinai's Wien Center, reflecting a strategy of outsourcing subspecialty depth through named-mentor community rotations. Alumni outcomes show a strong, near-universal fellowship trajectory (vascular neurology, neurocritical care, epilepsy, headache, neuromuscular, clinical neurophysiology) at academic centers, indicating the program functions as a springboard into subspecialty fellowship rather than a terminal general-neurology pathway. Research is institutionally supported through a dedicated Department of Research and Academic Affairs with structured mentorship and scholarly output requirements, but it functions as a supplementary competency-building track rather than the program's central identity, which instead centers on broad clinical/procedural exposure via diverse community and tertiary partners.