Larkin Community Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Larkin Community Hospital's General Surgery program is a community-based, IMG-heavy training pathway within a South Florida statutory teaching hospital system, built around a home-base categorical experience at Larkin supplemented by structured away rotations at higher-acuity partner sites: trauma, vascular, and acute care surgery at Delray Medical Center (a level-1 trauma center), pediatric surgery at Nicklaus Children's Hospital, and a dedicated transplant month at Cleveland Clinic Florida. This multi-site structure gives residents exposure to subspecialized general surgery (endocrine, breast, colorectal, hepatobiliary, bariatric) at the home institution plus critical-care and transplant experience elsewhere, compensating for a single-hospital base with borrowed tertiary/quaternary exposure. The program has an institution-wide research infrastructure (Department of Research and Academic Affairs, IRB, research internships, faculty-scholar and resident-scholar tracks) that supports scholarly output but is not framed as the program's central identity. Its resident roster, drawn heavily from Caribbean and international medical schools, and its institutional mission around cultural/ethnic representation of the community served, indicate a program oriented toward training board-eligible general surgeons through broad clinical service rather than positioning graduates primarily for academic surgical leadership.