Director's Welcome

Dear Applicant:

Welcome to the University of Southern California (USC) Internal Medicine Residency Training Program. It is a pleasure to share with you the remarkable nature of our training environment here at USC and the exciting opportunities available to our house officers. The principal goals of the USC Internal Medicine Residency are to train our residents to be talented and compassionate internists and to ensure their access to wide-ranging career options. Our graduates are exceptionally qualified to join general internal medicine practices or enter subspecialty fellowship programs. Approximately 85% of our graduates remain in the Los Angeles area for their practice or subsequent training opportunities. We are committed to enabling each of our residents to fulfill their personal and professional goals.

The USC Internal Medicine Residency Training Program is situated on the USC Health Sciences Campus near metropolitan Los Angeles. The campus is a bustling and stimulating environment comprised of the USC Keck School of Medicine, the USC School of Pharmacy and a number of public and private hospitals. The presence of the newly opened, state-of-the art, one billion dollar LAC+USC Medical Center, USC University Hospital and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center here on campus enables us to provide our residents with a remarkably rich and diverse training environment.

USC internal medicine residents, under the supervision of full-time faculty in the Department of Medicine, provide ongoing ambulatory and inpatient care to our surrounding populations. In addition, all of our campus institutions serve as tertiary and quaternary referral centers for the region, nation and, indeed, the world.

The scope of clinical pathology seen by USC internal medicine residents (both common and rare) is truly unrivaled in the United States and we provide our trainees with an excellent blend of progressive clinical autonomy and direct faculty supervision. We are able to provide our trainees with a unique range of experience in part because a substantial number of our patients have had minimal or no medical evaluations prior to entering our health care system. In fact, internal medicine residents are often the first physicians to apply their medical knowledge and clinical skills toward establishing the necessary diagnostic and treatment plans for their patients. The exceptional clinical opportunities at USC coupled with our structured teaching and clinical programs foster the maturation of USC internal medicine residents into excellent clinicians, team leaders and educators.

Identifying a residency training program which best suits one's needs requires careful consideration. The accompanying information will enable you to gain a detailed understanding of the elements of the USC Internal Medicine Residency Training Program. We look forward to sharing more with you about the remarkable training experiences in Internal Medicine here at USC.

Sincerely,

Ron Ben-Ari, M.D.
Residency Director

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