Training Campuses Majority of the training occurs at Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, CA, a 222-bed county-operated acute-care facility. As the only major trauma center in Kern County, it serves a multi-cultural population of over 650,000 and provides care to over 16,000 inpatients and over 100,000 outpatients annually. Being the only teaching hospital in the county, KMC is dedicated to resident education and provides a fertile learning environment with its wide diversity of pathologies and great abundance of clinical cases encompassing the entire spectrum of Internal Medicine. Medical residents also rotate through some of the private sites within the community (Bakersfield VA Clinic, Comprehensive & Central Cardiology Groups, Kern Allergy Medical Clinic, Comprehensive Blood & Cancer Center, Bakersfield Dermatology Group, Bakersfield Heart Hospital, Mercy Hospital, and Bakersfield Memorial Hospital). Medicine residents have at least 3 rotations in the other UCLA-affiliated campuses. A rotation in Geriatrics occurs at the Sepulveda VA campus. At least 2 subspecialty electives can be taken by a resident in any of the UCLA-affiliated programs. Most of the residents elect to rotate at Oliveview, West-LA VA, Cedars Sinai, & Harbor-UCLA.