For Prospective Residents

Thank you for your interest in the UCLA Family Medicine Residency Program. Please review our entire Residency website to learn more about our unique training program. It is our belief that our program offers the best of all worlds in that our training sites include the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, a community institution with a 35 year history of training family doctors and Olive View -UCLA, a public teaching hospital with a mission to serve the underserved.

Although all residents share the same core educational experiences, we are pleased that the program offers two community based residency sites. The main difference between the sites is the location of their continuity clinic as all residents utilize the two UCLA teaching hospitals listed above for their inpatient training:

Santa Monica (NRMP code: 1956120C1) utilizes the Les Kelley Family Health Center as its continuity clinic. With 8 residents per year, the Les Kelley site serves a racially and ethnically diverse population, including many university employees as well as families from the local community. Most patients have public or private insurance; some are medically indigent. This site seeks to train physicians for the broader community as well as to prepare future family medicine educators.

Mid Valley (NRMP code: 1956120C0), with 4 residents per year, is based in a new county comprehensive care clinic located in the federally designated underserved community of Van Nuys, in the heart of San Fernando Valley. It serves a diverse, medically indigent population that is predominately Latino and immigrant. This site includes some innovative community programs including a school based asthma project in the nearby Sun Valley Middle School. It seeks to train family physicians for the broader community with an emphasis on the underserved as well as public policy.

Whereas each site has a separate match number you may apply to one or both tracks. All UCLA residents at both sites share the same broad-based exceptional curriculum. All UCLA residents will be prepared for the family medicine career of their choosing as a result.

Please, peruse our website and get a better understanding of our program. We look forward to meeting you.

Sincerely,

Denise K. C. Sur M.D.
Residency Program Director
Department of Family Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine
(310) 319-4709