Curriculum

Goals and Objectives

The goal of our three year curriculum is to create well trained, well rounded, compassionate physicians who are adept at both the science and art of medicine. We expect that our physicians, upon graduation, will be capable of practicing in almost any environment and expertly handle the majority of medical issues that may confront them.

Teaching Program

The teaching and learning opportunities at our program are frequent and thorough. These opportunities consist of daily noon conferences, weekly pediatric rounds, monthly pediatric grand rounds(add s), monthly medicine grand rounds, daily inpatient rounds and lectures while on the medicine service, monthly chest conference, and GI conference, as well as frequent didactic teaching.

Research Opportunities

Research projects are actively encouraged and are supported by a faculty and attending staff who have many ongoing projects. Research is ongoing at the residency program.  Dr. O’Connell sits on the Regional Research Committee which provides funding and support for research projects.

Rotations & Call

Rotations & Call Rotations for PGY 1 are: Adult Inpatient Medicine, ER, Obstetrics, Surgery, ICU, ENT, Ophthalmology, Pediatric Outpatient, and Pediatric Inpatient medicine. Rotations for PGY 2 are: Adult Inpatient Medicine, Cardiology, Gynecology, NICU, Pediatric Outpatient, Musculoskeletal, GI, and elective time. Rotations for PGY3 are: Adult Inpatient Medicine, Surgery, Dermatology, Pediatrics, Urology, Sports Medicine, Geriatrics, Neurology, Surgical Walk In, ER, Pulmonology and elective time.

Call for first year residents averages every fourth night for for four months and every sixth night for five months of the year. Second year call averages every eleven nights for nine months of the year. Third year call averages every fourth night for two months, with the remainder of the year call-free.

Clinical Experiences

The inpatient medicine team is composed of two teams. One team is two first year residents and a third year resident supervised by an attending. The other team is composed of two second year residents supervised by another attending.

The Family Medicine clinic residents are assigned their own panel of patients to allow patient-physician bonding and provide continuity of care. Each resident is provided with one-on-one nursing to enhance the clinic experience. First year residents begin by seeing four patients per half day. By graduation, the residents see 10 patients per half day.

The second year residents are entitled to four weeks of elective time. The third year residents are entitled to twelve weeks of elective time.

Medical students from all medical schools are welcome to do clerkships with our residency program. At all times there is a UCLA medical student rotating with us. Our residents are actively involved with the education of these medical students both in the clinic settings and on the inpatient service.

We have two new subspecialty clinics that take place in the Family Medicine Center. The Dermatology clinic is staffed by one of our dermatologists and three of our residents once per week. There is extensive hands-on teaching in dermatology as our residents see patients in this clinic.

We also have a primary care sports medicine clinic staffed by one of our sports medicine fellowship trained faculty members. The resident on the musculoskeletal or sports medicine rotation works in this clinic.