While the county hospital is home for our program, we offer the breadth of clinical training across three major medical systems. It’s an advantage for our graduates to be prepared to work in any health care system.
Overview of Clinical Sites
| Health System | Medical Center | Inpatient Rotations | Outpatient Rotations |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Olive View-UCLA Medical Center | ||
| Mid-Valley Comprehensive Health Center | |||
 | Ronald Reagan-UCLA Medical Center | ||
| Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center | |||
 | West Los Angeles VA Medical Center |
Inpatient Rotation Sites
This shows the total number of inpatient weeks that residents spend at each of the major health systems.
Outpatient Continuity Sites
Residents have continuity panels at either Olive View-UCLA or Mid-Valley. This shows the distribution of categorical residents to each site.
Department of Health Services
The Department of Health Services (DHS) functions alongside the Department of Mental Health and Department of Public Health under the umbrella of the Health Agency in Los Angeles County. DHS operates four major hospitals and a network of ambulatory care centers. Across this system, DHS meets the healthcare needs of the uninsured, underinsured, and insured population of Los Angeles County. It is the second largest county health system (behind only New York City) and serves the most populous county in the U.S., so the demand for medical services is great.
Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
Our program home is Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, a county hospital located at the north end of the San Fernando Valley. It is about 30 minutes away from UCLA and 35 minutes from Downtown Los Angeles. The San Gabriel Mountains provide a beautiful backdrop to our campus.
Olive View-UCLA Medical Center serves the needs of low income and indigent patients as well as the surrounding middle class community. It is also a referral center for northern Los Angeles County, capturing patients from the San Fernando, Santa Clarita, and Antelope Valleys. The population and pathology we see are diverse, providing for a rich learning environment. This is ideal for anyone seeking a solid experience in general medicine, a career helping underserved patients, or experience working in a resource-limited setting.
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While the current main building opened in 1987, the site has served as a hospital since 1920, first as a tuberculosis sanitorium. Today, the medical center provides:
- 377 inpatient beds
- 30-bed isolation unit (previously known as the TB Unit)
- 18-bed ICU
- Inpatient Psychiatry Unit
- 51-bed Emergency Department
- Urgent Care
- Outpatient specialty and subspecialty clinics
Most inpatient rotations and clinics are based at Olive View. Some residents have their primary care continuity panel in our hospital-based clinic.
The medical center maintains a strong affiliation with UCLA. Olive View is a major clinical site for UCLA medical students, UCLA Ronald Reagan Internal Medicine residents and fellows, and other specialty trainees including Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Radiology, and Surgery.
Mid-Valley Comprehensive Health Center
The Mid-Valley Comprehensive Health Center expands the ambulatory experience with a primary care clinic in the community. The facility continues to serve the county population under DHS. It is located in Van Nuys in the center of the San Fernando Valley. Internal medicine faculty are associated with the David Geffen School of Medicine and the Olive View-UCLA Department of Medicine.
The clinic serves as the primary care continuity site for 40% of the residents in the program. It is also a continuity site for the UCLA Family Medicine program.
UCLA Health System
Although UCLA has a separate Internal Medicine Residency program, the UCLA-Olive View program is sponsored through UCLA. The two programs share identical housestaff benefits. Our residents rotate at UCLA on inpatient rotations. On the flip side, UCLA Internal Medicine residents do the same at Olive View. UCLA is our “sister” program and we enjoy a healthy, forward-looking relationship.
UCLA Medical Center is a world-class institute, serving as a tertiary and quaternary care center. More than 300,000 people from Los Angeles, across the country, and around the world come to UCLA Medical Center each year. It houses the largest transplant center in the world and attracts many patients seeking expert care for a range of unusual illnesses. The medical center is also a National Comprehensive Cancer Center and has been awarded NIH Center grants in cardiology, pulmonary diseases, and oncology. The UCLA Health System includes a network of ambulatory care centers that extends primary care north into the San Fernando Valley and south into the South Bay region of LA.
Ronald Reagan-UCLA Medical Center
The Westwood campus is comprised of the Ronald Reagan-UCLA Medical Center, a 517-bed state-of-the-art hospital that opened in Spring 2008, the Center for Health Sciences, the Medical Plaza outpatient facility with complete outpatient diagnostic and therapeutic facilities, including an outpatient surgical center and rehabilitation unit, and the Neuropsychiatric Hospital.
Rotations in the General Medicine wards, CCU, and MICU are located at Ronald Reagan-UCLA Medical Center.
Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center
The Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopedic Hospital extends services in the UCLA Health System. It is the inpatient home of the UCLA Geriatrics Program—ranked #5 in the United States—as well as UCLA’s highly regarded orthopaedic, spine, and general medicine programs.
The inpatient Geriatric Ward rotation is located at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center.
VA Health System
For nearly the past century, the VA Health System has been an integral part of graduate medical education while serving the healthcare needs of veterans. The West Los Angeles VA is academically tied to UCLA.
West Los Angeles VA Medical Center
The West Los Angeles VA serves as the hub for the Greater Los Angeles VA Health System. The medical center is located in West Los Angeles, just 5 minutes away from the UCLA Westwood campus.
Olive View residents have the opportunity to rotate in the inpatient General Medicine and Geriatric wards at the VA.