Larkin Community Hospital (LCH) South Miami Campus is located at 7031 SW 62 Avenue, South Miami, Florida. This is a well-known General-Surgical-Psychiatric and Teaching Hospital, which has been designated as Area of Critical Need in Florida by the HRSA and the Florida Department of Health. We have been serving the health care needs of South Miami and the surrounding communities for more than 40 years. Our institution provides comprehensive services in order to serve the community through qualified inter-disciplinary teams.

Larkin actually includes a campus in Hialeah offering 247 beds, plus a behavioral health hospital in Hollywood offering 50 beds plus ALFs and nursing homes. Larkin also offers the Neuroscience Center, the Center for Advanced PM&R, the Cancer Center, and seven neuroimaging centers through the Dade County.

The experience at Larkin Hospital Center for Advanced PM&R provides comprehensive and well-structured cognitive and procedural clinical education in general PM&R with an emphasis in adult lower extremity reconstruction. The residents are exposed to general PM&R while covering an emergency room and inpatient consult service for both upper and lower extremities. Elective procedures are mostly hip and knee joint replacements primaries and complex revision surgeries.Residents are involved in the clinic and operating room and are closely supervised by a PM&R Physiatrist. While at Larkin, the program provides 5 hours of didactics every week.

Including case reviews, Grand Rounds, journal club and in-training review. Online access to PM&R journals and the research department resources are available for all the residents to work on specific research projects which are required for all residents.

Has a wide variety of acute inpatient rehabilitation with Fellowship trained physicians in TBI and SCI, Cases include TBI, SCI,CVA, Orthopedics, Neurological disorders and debility work with interdisciplinary team including PT, OT, ST, neuro psychology and nursing.

Residents will be supervised by Dr. Mark S Fishman. Dr. Fishman is a board-certified Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation specialist with fellowship training in Interventional Spine and Electro diagnostic Medicine.

Multi-Disciplinary Family Practice and Physical Medicine Practice that caters to the youthful as well as aging patient.

Residents will rotate in a Prosthetic and Orthotics clinic with 2 certified specialists who provide guidance and support and teaching adequate patient volume. Population ranging from infants to elderly.

PM&R Neurologists diagnose and treat disorders of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, muscles, and the involuntary nervous system that controls the heart, lungs and other organs. Educational impact on how to treat headaches, stroke, dementia, seizures, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, sleep disorders and neuromuscular diseases. As well as exposure to pediatric patients.

This is an inpatient sub-acute rehabilitation and nursing center. Residents manage rehabilitation of 34 beds rehabilitation floor. Exposure to patients with stroke, TBI, orthopedic surgery, gait abnormalities, deconditioning secondary to prolonged hospitalizations and age-related debility. Opportunity to work closely with PT, OT, ST, CNAs, RNs, LPNs and primary medical teams.

Is a 40-bed, mostly private rooms. There are two attending physicians. Resident’s responsibilities are capped at 15 patients.

Features 20 beautifully appointed private rooms and 3 semi private rooms. All rooms are equipped with the most advanced technology while maintaining a homelike atmosphere. Comprehensive Programs for those suffering from: Stroke Traumatic Head Injury Spinal Cord Injury Multiple Trauma Neuromuscular Disorders such as: Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Gilliam Barre, Lou Gehrig’s Disease and Muscular Dystrophy General Orthopedic to include: Fractures and Total Hip & Knee Replacement Amputee Chronic or Acute Pain Arthritis/Osteoporosis Cardio Pulmonary Condition.

The VA operates one of the largest health care systems in the world and provides training for a majority of America’s medical, nursing and allied health professionals.

Residents complete a 1 month Pediatric PM&R rotation during their Y3/PGY-4 year with Dr. Michelle Miller as their supervising physician. In this experience residents gain competence in the diagnosis, evaluation, and rehabilitation management of children and adolescents with impairments of the neurologic, musculoskeletal, and other body systems impacting body structure and function, activity limitation, and barriers to participate with emphasis on pediatric-related conditions.