Residency: Program Highlights
Broad and Diverse Clinical Experience
— 23,000 to 25,000 Pediatric Emergency Department visits per year.
— 22,000 scheduled pediatric visits (general and subspecialty).
— 2,500 admissions - Children's Ward & PICU.
— 1,058 admissions - NICU and nursery.
Teaching Program
— Daily conferences and attending rounds, core curriculum, board review, and bedside teaching.
Continuity Clinic Program
— Hospital based, same 1/2 day per week for 3 years on a team.
— Team leader: full-time faculty member.
— Nurse Practitioners as coordinators.
— Site visits as a team to learn about community resources (e.g. Braille Institute).
Pediatric Full-Time Faculty
— Adolescent Medicine
— Allergy/Immunology
— Cardiology
— Child Psychiatry
— Critical Care*
— Developmental Psychology
— Emergency Medicine*
— Endocrinology*
— Gastroenterology
— General Academic Pediatrics*
— Genetics*
— Hematology/Oncology
— Infectious Disease*
— Neonatology*
— Nephrology
— Neurology*
— Radiology
— Child Abuse*
* Offer approved Fellowship Training.
Research Program
— $60 million extramural funding at Harbor-UCLA's research institute, LA BioMed.
— Basic and clinical research opportunities.
— Attendance at local and national meetings to review and present research.
Housestaff Retreat
— One weekend each Fall.
— Both education and social program.
Recent Graduates
— 60% choose general pediatrics.
— 40% are in subspecialty pediatrics.