Affiliated with David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
The Northridge Family Medicine Residency Program was established in 1976 and is affiliated with David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Our program has a full five year ACGME accredition and has graduated over 200 family physicians practicing in Southern California and across the nation. As an unopposed program, we offer well-rounded curriculum and experiences. Our program is firmly committed to providing quality healthcare to underserved and to our community outreach programs.
The program supports learning through active patient care supported by ready and available physician staff mentors. Family physician preceptors are the mainstay of teaching in the Family Practice Center and are complemented by our pediatric, obstetrical, and surgical faculty. In addition, a health educator and nutritionist provide teaching and ancillary services.
A Message From the Director
Welcome Class of 2013!
They say that 13 is an unlucky number, but sometimes "they" are wrong. They say the solution to healthcare is a change in financing, malpractice reform and more sophisticated algorithms, but once again "they" are wrong.
Family doctors are the remedy to our fractured healthcare system, and the lucky class of 2013 will show the American people this simple truth. Great challenge represents great opportunity. And without question, the challenges before family medicine today are tremendous.
Our country is in desperate need of family doctors. But as is often the case the American public may not be aware of what they really need. They may think that they need more MRI’s, more antibiotics and more specialists. However, their family doctor knows better.
What American’s need are more family doctors – the kind who offer state of the art, evidence based, caring and thoughtful care. The kind who use electronic records to both document a visit and then to analyze the quality of care in their office; the kind who get excited at the prospect of creating a Patient Centered Medical Home and work to create one.
The American public needs you. They don’t all know it but more and more are realizing that the best medicine is a good family doctor. I believe you have a bright future ahead of you.
Northridge Family Medicine Residency to here to help you become that physician. We want to take a motivated, caring and idealistic student and give them the experience, knowledge and skills to become that physician. I believe Northridge is uniquely suited to the future of family medicine in our country. We offer adult and pediatric inpatient experiences that are as comprehensive as any academic center.
Our office is brimming with young families, pregnant women as well as patients with chronic and disabling conditions. We have an active acute care rotation, surgical experiences, community outreach and behavioral medicine curriculum that all give residents confidence when they leave. Our residents are ready to tackle inpatient medicine, maternity care, ambulatory medicine, the care of sick children and aches both on and off the playing fields.
Graduates tell me that the experience here prepared them to be the best that they could be.
I urge you to look through our website to learn about the other programs available to you during your three years here. We foster an educational environment that creates a foundation for life long learning with the kind, caring and humane attitude that you bring to our program.
Pamela M. Davis, MD
Northridge Family Medicine Residency Program
