Community Health of South Florida, Inc. CHI Program

Program Identity & Fit

CHI's Psychiatry Residency is a Teaching Health Center program embedded within a federally qualified community health center network serving underinsured and underserved populations across South Florida, reflecting a safety-net, community-based identity rooted in the organization's decades-long mission of access for indigent, migrant, and uninsured patients. Clinical training spans a broad consortium of affiliated hospitals and community sites (Jackson South, Larkin, Nicklaus Children's, AGAPE Network, private outpatient specialists) rather than a single academic medical center, with PGY3 anchored in continuity outpatient care at the Doris Ison Health Center and PGY4 building toward addiction, geriatric, forensic, and community psychiatry rotations plus an administrative psychiatry month. Research is structured as scholarly/QI participation with academic partner support rather than a driving institutional priority, and the program explicitly frames graduates as prepared for either direct specialty practice or fellowship. The wellness structure's stated goal of promoting resident retention in South Florida after graduation signals a program that values residents likely to remain in the region and serve its community health mission.