Florida International University-Baptist Health Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a new, university-affiliated Transitional Year program launched through FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine's academic alliance with Baptist Health, training residents at Baptist Hospital of Miami and South Miami Hospital within a community-based, non-university-owned hospital system newly integrated into an academic mission. The curriculum is a standard TY structure of internal medicine, ICU, family medicine/ambulatory, general surgery, emergency medicine and night float, with broad elective flexibility spanning medical and surgical subspecialties to support individualized preparation for the resident's ultimate specialty. Research is available as an elective and the sponsoring institution has a translational research infrastructure, but the TY curriculum itself does not require or center scholarly output. As an inaugural class within a growing FIU/Baptist Health GME ecosystem, the program appears to value residents who want a flexible, well-supported foundation year with genuine elective latitude before entering a categorical specialty.