Our Program offers a fully-accredited 3-year categorical track in Internal Medicine. We take pride in having consistently maintained a continued full-accreditation status from the ACGME through the years.  

The program provides the utmost clinical and scholarly experiences to its residents, in a setting conducive to learning, striving to attain the optimal balance between resident autonomy and faculty supervision. Residents are intensely involved in direct patient management, under close guidance by our faculty who are highly-motivated to teach. Being immersed in a large multi-cultural patient population with a wide diversity of pathology encompassing the entire spectrum of Medicine, excellence in the clinical areas obviously is the strongest attribute of a UCLA-KMC resident.  

Being a University-affiliated program, we also give high priority to research. The residents are mandated to take part in the Annual Research Forum at Kern Medical Center, and in the Annual Solomon Scholars Research Day at UCLA. Numerous Department-sponsored studies have been published, and every year, our residents present notable papers in major national scientific meetings.

Most of our graduates elect to practice General Medicine, and they move on to become successful practitioners in the community. The Program also actively supports residents who choose to do further subspecialty training. Our graduates who go on to pursue fellowships do so in renowned University programs.