KPIGME Consortium Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a new, mission-driven pediatric residency based at Tampa Family Health Centers, one of the few pediatric programs anchored in a Federally Qualified Health Center rather than a traditional academic medical center. Training is built around continuity primary care and community advocacy, supplemented by subspecialty exposure through partnerships with AdventHealth Tampa, AdventHealth for Children, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, and numerous community subspecialists. The curriculum devotes 40 weeks to individualized subspecialty/elective time but structurally emphasizes primary care, community medicine, and advocacy blocks each year over inpatient subspecialty depth, signaling a generalist, community-pediatrics orientation rather than a fellowship pipeline. The program explicitly values residents who are passionate about underserved populations, community advocacy, and helping shape a still-developing program, more than research output or subspecialty prestige.