Program

Program Overview

Of the many things that define UCLA surgery, the breadth and quality of clinical experience rank among the top.

Over the course of five clinical years, residents rotate at hospitals throughout Los Angeles, including UCLA-Ronald Reagan and Santa Monica hospitals, Los Angeles General Medical Center, Olive View Medical Center, Harbor-UCLA, Veteran Affairs Medical Center in West Los Angeles, and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. Thanks to the diversity of sites, residents experience a wide breadth of cases from “bread and butter” general surgery to the most complex oncology, trauma, and transplant surgical pathology. Residents also take care of patients across the socioeconomic spectrum, including multiple safety-net hospital systems.

In addition to these experiences, residents benefit from a formal educational curriculum tailored to their level of training. This curriculum includes weekly didactics, teaching sessions, surgical anatomy labs, special seminars, and other events and sessions. Click on the following links to learn more about our various rotation sites and educational curriculum.