Thank you for your interest in the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency Training Program. For those who are not familiar with Cedars-Sinai, we are one of the largest community medical centers in the United States, and a major teaching hospital for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Residency training and medical education is one of the four major missions of Cedars-Sinai Health Care System. The other three missions are also important components of our residency program: Delivery of outstanding patient care, service to our community, and advancement of medical knowledge through research.

We are very excited about the recent integration of the Department of Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System program into our residency. Our program will be designed in the mode of major university programs across the country. We will have close to 200 full-time faculty in the Department of Medicine, all with academic appointments at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Every subspecialty of internal medicine is represented in our full-time faculty, and there are multiple research and fellowship-training opportunities in each of these fields. Additionally, more UCLA medical students will do their required inpatient and ambulatory medicine rotations at our program's facilities then at any other UCLA campus, including the University Hospital.

In addition to the outstanding training opportunities in our main hospitals, residents will have the opportunity to rotate at Los Angeles County hospitals and UCLA Medical Center. The ambulatory medicine experience will include multiple clinics at Cedars-Sinai, the West Los Angeles VA, the Sepulveda VA's PACE clinics, multiple community free clinics, and both block and continuity experiences in private physicians' offices. We strongly believe the greater the diversity of medical problems you see during your training and the wider the range of cultural and socioeconomic groups you care for, the better physician you will become.

Because not all individuals training in internal medicine have similar career aspirations, we provide our residents the flexibility of individualizing their educational curriculum. While all residents will be required to do a number of inpatient and ambulatory experiences to insure that they develop the skills and knowledge to become an excellent internist, residents also have the chance to be involved in research and to rotate onto both subspecialty clinical services and non-internal medicine ambulatory experiences. We believe this not only benefits individual residents, but also allows our program to attract a group of residents who bring a healthy diversity of prior experiences and future career goals.

As you can guess from the design of our program, our residents go into a wide range of professional careers, including academic general internal medicine, subspecialty medicine, community-based medical practice and the recently defined "hospitalist" practice. Our residents choose from some of the most prestigious fellowship programs in the United States and have been recruited to some of the best medical practices in our community.

Finally, training in the Cedars-Sinai Internal Medicine program not only gives residents excellent internal medicine skills, but also leaves them with personal and professional relationships that will last a lifetime.