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California Hospital Medical Center
 

Learn More About Our Family Medicine Residency Program At Dignity Health California Hospital Medical Center in Downtown Los Angeles. We pride ourselves on providing an excellent education to our family medicine residents. Whether you are first year, second year, or third year, we practice learning as we emphasize human kindness.

Family Medicine Residency

Our Mission is to provide comprehensive training to family physicians who care for our diverse, urban, medically underserved population and who will excel in academic and clinical careers.

Program Highlights

  • Established in 1984
  • Located in Downtown LA, just a few blocks from LA Live
  • Community hospital featuring a Level 2 Trauma Center
  • Continuity clinic at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Eisner Health
  • Serving a diverse underserved community in the heart of Los Angeles
  • Strong inpatient training
  • Unopposed residency program
  • Curriculum highlights include Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum and Point of Care Ultrasound Curriculum (including sim lab) integrated longitudinally in didactics

From the Director

At California Hospital Medical Center, we are dedicated to the success of our residents and to educating future family medicine physicians, and we look forward to answering your questions and providing you information as you discover the rewards of service to others.

Meet Our Faculty & Residents

Our faculty are all experts in the field. Take the time to get to know them:

Resident Track Options

We offer optional residency tracks that residents may pursue to further their interests. Residents elect to join a track at the start of their second year. Current available tracks include: 

  • Integrative Medicine Track
  • Obstetrics Track

Sample Schedule

We offer a 4-week inpatient family medicine sub-internship to fourth year medical students in good standing at an accredited allopathic or osteopathic medical school. Students will care for full-spectrum family medicine patients on our inpatient service, including adult medicine, critical care, obstetric, and newborn patients. Students will also participate in our didactics during the rotation.

Sub-I rotations are offered March to October with the exception of the last week of July and the month of August to allow our new interns to be oriented. Space is limited. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis starting in January. Interested students should apply as early as possible during the application window.

If you are interested in applying or have questions regarding the family medicine sub-internship, please contact [email protected].

Salary and Benefits

Community-Based Partners

The Family Medicine Residency Program enjoys a strong affiliation with our community-based partners. On various rotations, residents spend time seeing patients at the Eisner Health Family Medical Center across the street from the hospital. Our community partners serve a largely indigent patient population, primarily Central American immigrants and help their own residents in models of health care for our inner-city communities.

Our community-partners include organizations like:

Eisner Health

Homeboy Industries

Hope Street Margolis Family Center

Adventures in LA

There are endless opportunities for exciting new adventures in Los Angeles. As a Family Medicine Resident at Dignity Health California Hospital Medical Center (CHMC), Los Angeles County will be your new backyard. Access to theme parks, unique shopping experiences, museums, and outdoor excursions await!

California Hospital Medical Center
 

How to Apply

When you join a Dignity Health residency program, you become a member of one of the largest hospital systems in the nation and the largest not-for-profit acute care provider in California. Not only will you experience our commitment to delivering the next generation of excellent healthcare, you'll practice in a warm and supportive environment where you can grow professionally and personally.

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Where Are They Now

Graduates from CHMC Family Medicine Residency go on to practice in a variety of settings, including

  • Outpatient primary care, including FQHCs, LA County Department of Health Services, Kaiser, VA
  • Hospitalist
  • Private practice
  • Urgent Care
  • Fellowship (e.g., Geriatrics, Palliative, Obstetrics)
  • Residency program faculty and directors

Inpatient Family Medicine Sub-1

This four-week rotation on our family medicine inpatient service features the opportunity to take care of full-spectrum family medicine patients in an underserved community in downtown Los Angeles. Students will care for full-spectrum family medicine patients on our family medicine inpatient service, including adult medicine, critical care, obstetric, and newborn patients. Students will also participate in our residency didactics during the rotation. This rotation is ideal for students planning to pursue a career in family medicine who are preparing for residency. Students will also participate in our weekly Friday afternoon didactics as well as any other conferences during the rotation.

Find us on VSLO, "CHMC-LA-FM-SUB-1 – Inpatient Family Medicine Sub-Internship at CHMC-LA" under Morehouse School of Medicine.

Foreign Medical School Students can reach out to use via email. Please note that our institute does not provide any visa services or sponsorship.

Learn More

For more information about our Family Residency Program, please email us at [email protected].

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