Internal Medicine Training Program:

Welcome to the UCLA Internal Medicine Training Program web site. This is an exciting time to embark on a career in internal medicine and an important juncture in your professional training as you decide on a residency program. We hope you find this web site about our program useful. You will be able to find information about our curriculum, training sites, research opportunities, our residents, and much more.

The UCLA Internal Medicine Training Program is designed to provide broad-based clinical training with an emphasis on academic medicine. The primary goal of our program is to train outstanding comprehensive internists capable of managing diverse patients with a broad range of diseases. We believe this is essential whether you plan to pursue a career in general internal medicine, the clinical subspecialties, or academic medicine. Our curriculum offers carefully balanced exposure to ambulatory and inpatient medicine. The breadth and depth of our primary care and subspecialty curriculum prepare our graduates to excel in a range of clinical settings. We are equally committed to training physician-scientists who will spend their careers generating new information in an academic setting. We provide guidance and support for residents who wish to pursue research opportunities during their residency, and, when appropriate, residents are encouraged to utilize the ABIM Research Pathway.

The UCLA Department of Medicine has a long history of excellence in patient care, education and research. The UCLA Medical Center has been named "Best Hospital in the West" for the 14 th consecutive year by the U.S. News & World Report survey, and in 2003 was again rated the third best hospital in the United States. The Department of Medicine at UCLA is consistently ranked in the top ten in the country in NIH funding for research and is in the top five nationally in SPORE, SCORE and NIH fellowship training grants. Our excellence in patient care and research translates into outstanding training opportunities for residents.

The strong commitment of the Department to excellence in teaching and patient care, a wide breadth of clinical experience, high quality fellowship and research programs, and an outstanding faculty and housestaff all contribute to making this a first-rate program for training future investigators and clinicians.

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