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 accreditation 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 the 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.
Northridge Residency ... What makes our program unique?
- Northridge is a community hospital, but because we are in Los Angeles, and a trauma center, our patients and their illnesses are as various as those in a large teaching hospital.
- We are part of a nonprofit community center institution that combines private practice with generous charity care for our needy patients. You will care for all patient demographics. You won't have to go to a free clinic to do community service every day.
- Our inpatient medicine service rivals those in internal medicine, with teaching by both internists and family doctors. Each resident works one on one with an attending physician for the length of the rotation. Daily radiology rounds, work rounds, and educational rounds supplement active care in the ICU and the nursing floors.
- The inpatient pediatrics rotation is vibrant -- and it’s right here in our community hospital. There’s no need to drive to another hospital; here at Northridge, residents care for patients on the pediatrics floor and PICU.
A recent resident ran a pediatrics floor in a hospital in Haiti and was thankful for the confidence her Northridge experiences had given her.
- Sports and musculoskeletal medicine are important parts of every resident’s experience. Our sports fellowship trained faculty member supervises sports clinics twice a week, supervises nearby high school football games on site, and leads an active didactic program. Residents work at California State University Northridge in the sports medicine department, and we are instituting a monthly OMM clinic in our Family Practice Center.
A Message From the Director
Welcome Class of 2014!
You are in my opinion one of the most important solutions to our countries health care woes. Your class represents a tried and true answer to the health problems of the American public. Studies show that if a patient has a family doctor, the chances are they will be healthier. This is our challenge, to improve the health of all of our patients.
Great challenge represents great opportunity. And without question, the challenges before family medicine today are tremendous. So, you are beginning your residency here at Northridge to take on new opportunities.
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.
Pamela M. Davis, MD
Northridge Family Medicine Residency Program
Contact Information:
Residency Coordinator
Northridge Family Medicine Residency Program
18406 Roscoe Blvd
Northridge, CA 91325
carol.ruiz@chw.edu
818-885-8500, ext. 2456 or 818-993-4054
Fax: 818-727-0793
