Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is dedicated to having a diverse medical staff and training programs to meet the ethnic and cultural needs of the diverse community that the Medical Center serves. The Cultural Diversity Committee of the medical staff is chartered to: provide culturally diverse lectures and assist the medical staff in attaining cultural competence, encourage more culturally diverse medical students to select Cedars-Sinai as their site for clerkships and residency training and to provide special mentoring of the culturally diverse physician-in-training.

Cedars-Sinai provides culturally diverse teaching programs. Its graduates go on to become leaders in their specialized fields and in preserving the health of their communities.

As one of the largest nonprofit hospitals in the western United States, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center combines expertise, technology, research and caring to create the gold standard in healthcare. Cedars-Sinai has received national recognition and prestigious awards for excellence, which include ranking as the number two hospital in the nation by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), the Magnet Excellence in Nursing Award from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and the Renewable Company of the Year Award from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

Renowned for innovative research, Cedars-Sinai has pioneered revolutionary medical discoveries, from the Swan-Ganz catheter and bioartificial liver to the more than 600 research projects currently underway. Everyday Cedars-Sinai fulfills its commitment to leading-edge healthcare by quickly instilling medical breakthroughs into medical practice. This progressive process ensures that patients benefit from the latest advances and have access to innovative clinical trials and investigational studies.

Cedars-Sinai is also a leader in education, sharing the knowledge gained from research and experience through residency, fellowship and teaching programs, as well as seminars, publications and community lectures.

Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital, affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine. The residency programs and teaching rotations at Cedars-Sinai are highly competitive and ranked among the best in the nation. Cedars-Sinai's emphasis on translational research offers students the opportunity to participate in the latest advancements in medical care, and Cedars-Sinai's patient care and community services programs provide a wide variety of settings in which to train. Teaching programs are available in:

• Dentistry
• Diagnostic imaging (radiology and nuclear medicine)
• Medicine
• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Pediatrics and genetics
• Physical medicine and rehabilitation
• Psychiatry
• Surgery

Cedars-Sinai residents enjoy the privilege of learning and practicing in a modern hospital setting with all of the state-of-the-art technological advances in a safe and nurturing environment. Cedars-Sinai offers its residents competitive stipends, leave benefits, insurance, free classes (computer training, career development, stress management, interpersonal skills, etc.) and tax-deferred annuity programs.

Cedars-Sinai has a long and distinguished tradition of serving the community. Cedars-Sinai commits over $91 million per year for more than 100 specialized and diversified community benefit programs for a diverse community. More than half of these programs are collaborations with community and voluntary agencies or with other health providers.

Many of these programs are on the forefront of the nation's agenda for public health, including programs for homeless and underserved mothers, children's health, youth employment and development, senior services and preventative health services.

Half of these programs include services for those who are indigent, uninsured or underinsured and/or eligible for Medi-Cal, Medicare, state Children's Service Programs and Healthy Families. Seniors and children comprise the greatest proportion of those served.

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