The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center was established in 1965 by Dr. Lynn P. Carmichael, the internationally recognized “Father of Family Medicine.” In 1968, the program became the first Family Practice Residency to be approved by the newly established Residency Review Committee for Family Practice.

Our fully accredited residency program focuses on producing family practitioners who are expert in the management of common and complex health problems, with a strong orientation toward community health care and delivery.  We seek physicians who are humanistic, caring, well rounded and desire to serve in the multiethnic, multilingual, dynamic South Florida community.

Our faculty’s special interests reflect the diversity of the South Florida community.  Culturally sensitive medical approaches, integrative medicine, international health initiatives, minority health, and urban medicine all play against a backdrop of community activism.   These passions, along with the resources and rich academic environment of the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical healthcare system, contribute to the strong academic and clinical training offered in the three-year program.

First Year Residency
The first phase of the continuum is structured to help the family physician-in-training learn to identify and appropriately manage the common problems presented by the ambulatory patient and the common problems that necessitate hospitalization. Residents spend approximately two months of their first year in the family practice center. In the hospital, four months are spent on adult inpatient medicine, two months in pediatrics, four weeks in emergency, eight weeks in obstetrics-gynecology and four weeks on vacation.

Second Year Residency
The residents' clinical experiences are as follows: 50% in the family practice center, 30% on inpatient services and emergency care, and the remainder on pre-planned electives.  Second year residents also have four weeks of vacation.

Third Year Residency
The assignments are very similar to the second year: 50% in the family practice center, 30% on inpatient services and 20%spent on preplanned electives. In addition to being responsible for an increasing number of patients assigned to them at the family practice center, residents are encouraged to assume teaching and supervisory responsibilities.

Facilities
The program utilizes the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center as its major teaching hospital and the South Dade Community Health Center as its family practice center. The latter is the hub of a primary care system in south Miami-Dade County where, in addition to the family health units, resources include clinical laboratories, diagnostic imaging, special clinics, crisis intervention, social services and acute care services. There are medical and psychiatric holding beds at the center.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have additional questions regarding the residency program, please contact our Residency Program Coordinator, Shelley Manning, at 305-243-2951 or smanning2@med.miami.edu.