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USC
Family Practice Center - California Hospital Medical Center
Facilities
The USC Family Practice Center at California Hospital Medical
Center is a traditional family medicine office practice. Family
Practice patients are seen by a team of family physicians,
assisted by our psychologist and nursing team.
The Family Medicine Residency Program is committed to providing
high-quality healthcare with convenient access to all members
of the downtown community, with a focus on caring for the
underserved members of our community. Patients are assigned
to one doctor who provides care for the patient and the entire
family. As much as possible, patients see the same physician
on each visit.
First year residents spend one half-day in the Family Practice
Center per week.
Second year residents spend two to three half-days in the
Family Practice Center per week.
Third year residents spend three to six half-days in the
Family Practice Center per week.
One or more members of the faculty is always assigned to
precept in the Center, maintaining a ratio of 1 faculty for
every 3 residents.
 When
Family Practice Center patients require hospitalization, the
Family Medicine Inpatient Resident admits and supervises the
care of that patient with input and involvement of the primary
physician. Faculty members are involved in the teaching inpatient
service.
Residents and Family Medicine faculty also share a busy maternity
service as part of our Family Medicine Inpatient Service;
providing maternity care from antepartum problem management,
labor and delivery, to postpartum care of the mother and newborn.
California Hospital Medical Center is a 303-bed, private,
non-profit, acute care facility that has been serving the
healthcare needs of the downtown community since 1887. The
hospital offers a wide variety of medical/surgical services,
including a 24-hour, full service emergency department, intensive
and coronary care units, rehabilitation services, complete
maternity services with newborn and pediatric intensive care
units, a transitional care unit for extended care, a geropsychiatric
unit and a new subacute unit for longer care patients who
are ventilator dependent.
First year residents enjoy the convenience of having all
rotations at California Hospital Medical Center. In the second
and third years, away rotations and electives allow residents
to experience a variety of settings - suburban to urban, small
group to corporate, and a variety of patient communities.
Core rotations include inpatient rotations in which the resident
takes on senior supervising responsibilities as well as specialty-focused
outpatient rotations in various clinic settings and private
physician offices.
The Family Medicine Residency Program enjoys a strong affiliation
with our community-based partners. On various rotations, residents
spend time seeing patients at the Eisner Pediatric & Family
Medical Center near the hospital, and South Central Family
Health Center, located approximately three miles south of
the hospital campus. Our community partners serve a largely
indigent patient population, primarily Central American immigrants
and help their own residents in models of health care for
our inner-city communities.
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