Ambulatory training is a major cornerstone of our program. We firmly believe that to be a competent clinician one must have strong outpatient skills. Consistently, our graduating residents reflect back on their continuity clinic and feel it was one of the most rewarding experiences of their residency. Our ambulatory training consists of both private and free clinics, providing our residents opportunities to focus on cost-effective care.
Our four continuity clinic sites for categorical residents are:
Our primary care residents all have two continuity clinic sites (depending on the pathway, please see Primary Care Training for more details):
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UCLA Internal Medicine, Suite 420 The Internal Medicine Suite is located in the 200 Medical Plaza adjacent to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. This is one of the locations of the outpatient continuity clinic for our categorical residents. Residents are assigned panels of patients from outgoing residents and have the opportunity to continue building their practice over the course of the three-year program. Together with their attending preceptors, clinic nurses, and patient service representatives, residents deliver comprehensive outpatient clinical care. In addition to their patient panel, residents also will see same-day urgent care patients from the community. For further questions, please contact Dr. Sun Yoo (SMYoo@mednet.ucla.edu), the IMS 420 clinic director.
The Simms/Mann Health & Wellness Center is an outpatient facility that is run by the Venice Family Clinic, one of the largest federally qualified health centers in the country. This health center provides high quality primary, subspecialty, and multidisciplinary care to low income and uninsured patients on the west side of Los Angeles. Our UCLA residents staff this clinic Monday through Friday. Categorical residents interested in working with underserved populations can request their continuity clinic to be based at Simms/Mann. Residents with continuity clinics at IMS may also rotate through our Simms/Mann resident clinic to complement their clinical training experience. Please contact Dr. Daniel Kozman (dkozman@mednet.ucla.edu) with questions regarding the Simms Mann clinical site.
The West Los Angeles VA is located just outside of Westwood while the Sepulveda campus is located in the San Fernando Valley, approximately 25 minutes north of Westwood. Residents at both sites will be fully integrated into Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACTs) allowing them the opportunity to train in a truly integrated medical home team of care providers. Together with their attending preceptor, each resident will manage a panel of patients and will work collaboratively with their team to deliver high quality care to ensure each patient attains their individual health care goals. With a fully integrated mental health service, on-site health coaches, pharmacists and social work services, residents are provided with the resources to take care of this unique and diverse population in a rewarding way. All residents will also rotate in Women's Health and select ambulatory medicine sub-specialty clinics at the VA. Please feel free to contact Dr. Christina Harris (christina.harris5@va.gov) regarding the continuity experience at WLA or Dr. Olivia Arreola-Owen (Olivia.Arreola-Owen@va.gov) regarding the Sepulveda VA clinical site.
Our philosophy is centered on the principle that most of our residents' future practices (be it primary care or subspecialty medicine) will occur in the ambulatory setting. Therefore we focus most of our subspecialty rotations in the outpatient arena. Residents will attend subspecialty clinics at both our Westwood and Santa Monica practices. Residents will often see rare, complex, or refractory diseases at the Westwood clinics. Conversely, the Santa Monica and VA subspecialty clinics provide more of a typical community subspecialty practice experience. Each clinic week, residents will rotate through a variety of subspecialty clinics, including: cardiology/pre-op, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology-oncology, pulmonary medicine, and rheumatology. Outpatient exposure to these disciplines allows the housestaff to work closely with our outstanding faculty and provides exposure to the common diseases typically treated by these specialists. Additionally, junior and senior residents also have significant elective time to design a curriculum based on their career goals. UCLA offers a broad range of ambulatory electives including but not limited to women's health, allergy-immunology, east-west medicine, radiology, dermatology, sports-medicine, student health, procedures, HIV, nuclear medicine, pathology, nutrition/obesity, and palliative care.
UCLA Santa Monica 2020 Urgent Care Clinic The Internal Medicine Consultants at 2020 Santa Monica Blvd is a well-established UCLA primary care practice serving the Santa Monica community. Residents with continuity clinics at the West LA VA and Simms/Mann rotate through urgent care clinic at “2020” to build outpatient skills in a university-affiliated community clinic setting.
