Training
Clinical training takes place in diverse outpatient and inpatient settings, so residents are exposed to a wide variety of practice models and patient populations.
Inpatient Training
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a large, 915-bed quaternary care hospital. Broad exposure to diverse and unique inpatient rotations allows residents to become highly skilled at caring for patients with both common and complex medical issues.
This experience allows residents to care for patients with a variety of medical issues, from the ordinary to the obscure. Most patients on this service are uninsured or have Medi-Cal, and they may not have a regular primary care physician. Attending rounds occur daily with a full-time faculty member.
This highly subspecialized service is a unique and outstanding training experience. Cedars-Sinai performs more heart transplants than any institution in the world, and this rotation provides residents exposure to this highly complex patient population as well as to our renowned cardiology faculty. This unit is served by a medical team consisting of two interns and three residents, as well as general cardiology fellows and advanced heart failure fellows.
This 32-bed ward is staffed by three interns, one resident and nurse practitioners. Residents care for patients undergoing allogenic and autologous bone marrow transplants and learn how to manage complications such as neutropenic fever, tumor lysis syndrome and severe electrolyte derangements. Patient care is supervised by a fellow and a faculty hematologist-oncologist.
Residents have the primary responsibility of caring for critically ill medical patients in this 24-bed ICU. It is staffed by two day teams—each with two residents and two interns—as well as one night team comprising three residents. Pulmonary fellows supervise around the clock, and a separate attending staffs each day team.
This 12-bed unit is staffed by two day teams—each composed of one resident and one intern—and one night team. Cardiology fellows are actively involved in patient management as well as teaching during bedside rounds and in didactic sessions. Daily rounds are supervised by the cardiology faculty.
Internal medicine residents will rotate through the various subspecialties of internal medicine on consultative services in the inpatient setting, including cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hepatology, hematology oncology, palliative care, infectious diseases, nephrology, pulmonology and rheumatology. Each rotation is staffed by a fellow and an attending and includes formal didactic sessions and a defined curriculum.
Our program partners with Harbor-UCLA Medical Center to allow for clinical training at a complementary site. Thirteen interns will have the opportunity to rotate on the general medicine wards at Harbor to take care of patients in a different hospital system.
Ambulatory Training
Ambulatory training consists of both continuity clinic experiences every fifth week, as well as additional block rotations across a variety of ambulatory settings.
Residents will be able to choose to do their continuity experiences at one of three different sites, allowing them to pick a site that most closely aligns with their career interests. During the continuity clinic week, residents will rotate through primary care and subspecialty clinics for a well-rounded ambulatory experience. During the additional block rotations, residents will experience rotations in geriatrics and urgent care, and will have the opportunity to work at a variety of our Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) partners: AIDS Project Los Angeles, Venice Family Clinic, Korean Health Education Information and Research Clinic, and the Los Angeles Christian Health Center.
At the Cedars-Sinai Ambulatory Care Clinic (ACC), residents provide primary care to a diverse group of medically underserved patients. The ACC serves as the medical home for many patients who have been hospitalized on the teaching service at Cedars-Sinai, providing residents with inpatient and outpatient continuity, and vast experience with complex and preventive care. Residents also rotate through a variety of subspecialty clinics based at the ACC. Preceptors are core faculty and chief residents for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. ACC is also the site for full collaborative behavioral healthcare.
Residents work with primary care physician-teachers providing patient-centered care in a large medical group. Residents will work closely with the same primary care physician over the three years for their continuity practices, and will also rotate through urgent care and a variety of subspecialty clinics.
Residents care for a diverse group of medically underserved patients at this large Federally Qualified Health Center. Saban is a patient-centered medical home providing comprehensive medical, dental, pharmacy and psychiatric services to patients. Residents also rotate through a variety of subspecialty clinics housed at Saban. Preceptors include core faculty and chief residents for the Internal Medicine Residency Program as well as Saban teaching faculty (including graduates of the Cedars-Sinai Internal Medicine Residency Program).
Sample Schedules
Here are the examples of a typical schedule for each year of training for the different tracks of the Internal Medicine Residency Program:
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