Memorial Healthcare System, Hollywood, Florida Program

Program Identity & Fit

Memorial Healthcare System's psychiatry program is a young (first class 2019), small, community-based university-affiliated residency built around Memorial Regional Hospital's Center for Behavioral Health (65 inpatient beds across adult and child/adolescent units) and a substantial Outpatient Behavioral Health Center offering esketamine, long-acting injectable, perinatal/addiction (MAT, MIR), and DBT programming. The program emphasizes high psychiatric acuity and diversity comparable to a large urban hospital, close faculty-resident relationships given its small size, and mandatory scholarly activity supported by an institutional IRB and research office, though this reads as expected rather than driving program identity. Career direction is broad general psychiatry with residents pursuing varied subspecialty interests (child/adolescent, addiction, forensic, reproductive, consult-liaison, neuromodulation), and two inaugural graduates joining as faculty signals a program invested in growing its own. The absence of away rotations or externships, paired with 100%-in-house training requirement, reinforces a self-contained, relationship-driven training culture rather than a nationally networked or research-flagship identity.