Kaiser Permanente Southern California Residency and Fellowship Programs
Pediatrics - Los Angeles Medical Center

About the Program

Father and sons

The Internship and Residency Training Program in Pediatrics at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center reflects a long-standing tradition of providing residents with the skills needed to become accomplished and compassionate physicians. Here you will find the best of all educational worlds. We offer a large medical campus that functions both as a community health center for the local population and as a tertiary care facility for Kaiser Permanente of Southern California, and a program built around the concepts of comprehensive, cost-effective, family-oriented primary care. You'll also enjoy direct patient responsibility, a large, ethnically diverse patient base, and a research division devoted entirely to resident projects.

Established in 1971 with a single house officer, our categorical pediatrics program today trains six residents per year in general Pediatrics. Over sixty full-time pediatricians, pediatric sub-specialists, and pediatric nurse practitioners actively participate in the three-year residency teaching program at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center (LAMC). This attending staff is available for consultation, supervision, and teaching on a 24-hour basis. All pediatric subspecialty fields are represented.

Unique Features about the Pediatrics residency program:

  • Diversity - Great diversity of patients - culturally (35 percent Hispanic), socio-economically (upper and lower income). Diversity of faculty and residents

  • Computer Systems - State of the art systems for patient's records, lab and x-ray results, patient management, email, and research. Installation of the electronic medical record will begin over the next 24 months

  • Flexibility - Great flexibility of rotations and electives at many different Kaiser medical centers (including Hawaii) and at other Los Angeles area pediatric training programs. Supervised international electives are supported.

  • Stability - The nation's oldest and most stable non-profit HMO, without the hassles of managed care. The Gold Standard of managed care. The patients seen by house staff in our center offer excellent preparation for practice in the community as a generalist or as a sub-specialist.