Our curriculum is designed to provide comprehensive teaching and learning opportunities through clinical and didactic experiences. Residents will learn through hands-on experiences, technology based tools, and interactive learning sessions with qualified faculty.
Curriculum Highlights
- Small faculty to resident ratios on majority of rotations – unopposed resident physician education
- Dedicated family medicine resident physician team on adult inpatient medicine rotations
- 1:1 interaction with specialists
- University-based resources through Loma Linda University Medical Center
- Extensive opportunities in commonly performed ambulatory procedures
- Protected time for weekly didactics and educational activities
Curriculum By Year
The PGY-1 year provides a comprehensive foundation of medicine exposing the resident to full spectrum family medicine. Residents complete core rotations in adult medicine, pediatrics (including newborn nursery), general surgery, obstetrics, orthopedics, and emergency medicine.
The PGY-2 resident will continue to develop their impatient medicine skills and broaden their clinical competence. Residence will have ambulatory experiences in musculoskeletal and sports medicine, ENT, GI, Wound Care (including nursing home rounds), and ambulatory pediatrics. PGY-2 residents also have the opportunity to begin exploring interest in two months of electives.
The PGY-3 resident will be given time to master the academic and clinical skills needed to become a board-certified family medicine physician. This includes ambulatory rotations in subspecialties such as cardiology, pulmonology. The PGY-3 has four months of electives so that residents can tailor their training to their own interests and type of practice that they are interested in.
Sample Curriculum
- Principles of Family Medicine (1 Month)
- Adult Inpatient Medicine - FM team (2 Months)
- Pediatric Inpatient Medicine (1 Month)
- Newborn Nursery (1 month)
- Emergency Medicine (2 Months)
- General Surgery (1 Month)
- Surgical Subspecialty: Orthopedic Surgery (1 Month)
- Obstetrics Labor and Delivery (2 Months)
- Gynecology (1 Month)
- Principles of Family Medicine (1 Month)
- Adult Inpatient Medicine - FM team (2 Months)
- Emergency Medicine (1 Month)
- Pediatric Inpatient Medicine (1 Month)
- Ambulatory Pediatrics (1 Month)
- Geriatric Medicine (1 Month)
- Medical Subspecialty: ENT (1 Month)
- Medical Subspecialty: Neurology (1 Month)
- Medical Subspecialty: Gastroenterology (0.5 Month)
- Medical Subspecialty: Intensive care unit (0.5 Month)
- Surgical Subspecialty: Podiatry (0.5 Month)
- Surgical Subspecialty: Wound Care (0.5 Month)
- Electives (2 Months)
- Principles of Family Medicine - Community Medicine (1 Month)
- Adult Inpatient Medicine - FM team (2 Months)
- Ambulatory Pediatrics (1 Month)
- Medical Subspecialty: Cardiology (1 Month)
- Medical Subspecialty: Dermatology (1 Month)
- Medical Subspecialty: Pulmonology (1 Month)
- Medical Subspecialty: Pain Management (1 Month)
- Electives (4 Months)