Teaching Health Center Planning and Development Program - Eligible Entity Type: Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Entity Name: Community Health of South Florida, Inc. (CHI) will operate the residency program alone and not as a part of a GME consortium. Project Director: Dr. Anthony Amofah, (305) 252-4853 (voice) samofah@chisouthfl.org www.chisouthfl.org Residency Type: Internal Medicine Funding preference: Affiliation agreement with an area health education center program Population Target Area: South Miami-Dade County and Monroe County, Florida Funding Amount Requested: $499,748 Projected Number of Residents in the Program: Four per year Expected ACGME Accreditation and Residency Matriculation Dates: ACGME accreditation (September 2024); residency matriculation (July 2025) CHI’s Brodes H. Hartley, Jr. Teaching Health Center is currently home to fully accredited, HRSA-supported residency programs in family medicine and psychiatry. It is now seeking to increase its regional and community impact by establishing an Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited residency program in internal medicine. Developing such a program will provide a pipeline for such physicians into underserved communities and will create access to complex care and improve long term care outcomes. The proposed ACGME program will serve internal medicine patients in CHI’s existing Miami-Dade and Monroe County health centers. Within these areas, the target patient population is comprised primarily of Hispanic (68%) and African American (19%) adults who are uninsured or underinsured, including those experiencing homelessness (18%) and farmworkers (3%). Several Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) are located in the service area and include West Perrine, Little Havana, Southwest Dade, Kendall and Homestead. As part of its collaborative network, CHI has access to resources afforded by a collaborative network of hospitals (e.g., Keys AHEC, Larkin Community Hospital and Jackson South Medical Center) and other health care providers that share research, curricular, and faculty resources. Measurable objectives include the development of a strong curriculum, internal human resources, comprehensive policies and procedures, and external partnerships to ensure that residents are provided with the specific skills, training and expertise needs. Additional objectives include decreasing health care disparities, addressing known challenges specific to THC residency programs and developing a clearly defined, factual and feasible sustainability plan. The expected project outcome is a new and sustainable community-based primary care medical residency program in internal medicine, accredited by the ACGME and able to address the primary care physician workforce shortage as well as the clinical needs and challenges of underserved communities of southern Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties. An Internal Medicine Program Director will be recruited and selected within two months of the grant award, to oversee the planning, development, and implementation of the proposed program under the direction and support of our Teaching Health Center’s Designated Institutional Officer (DIO), Associate DIO and Medical Education Programs Manager and Institutional Coordinator. In turn, the Internal Medicine Program Director will guide the work of an Internal Medicine Program Coordinator with specialized expertise regarding program accreditation and a faculty serving as curriculum development advisors.
