Larkin Community Hospital in South Miami, Florida, and Nova Southeastern University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine (NSU-COM) recently received approval from the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to establish several new osteopathic medicine residency training programs.
The AOA’s Program and Trainee Review Committee granted the hospital approval to train residents in the following postgraduate training programs, which will commence on July 1, 2012. These include a traditional rotating internship, a neurology residency, an ophthalmology residency, a hospice and palliative care fellowship, and an endocrinology fellowship.
The neurology residency program will include a new clinic called the Larkin Community Hospital Movement Disorder Center, which will offer cutting-edge techniques for the treatment of movement disorders. This clinic will be the last hope for treating patients who experience disabling involuntary tremors and don’t respond to medications.
Larkin, which currently offers AOA-approved medical residency programs in family medicine, internal medicine, psychiatry, and neuromusculoskeletal medicine, also received approval from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to launch a new psychiatry residency program.
