Our Training Sites
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, part of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, is a high-volume, hands-on, well-supervised public teaching hospital with high patient acuity, providing a unique opportunity for rigorous and diverse training. The hospital is home to several accredited residency and fellowship programs typically found in a modern academic medical center including internal medicine, medicine subspecialties, pediatrics, pediatric subspecialties, OB/Gyn, psychiatry, general surgery and surgical subspecialties including kidney transplant. Harbor-UCLA is a Level 1 Trauma Center and NICU. The hospital is affiliated with the non-profit Lundquist Institute (formerly LA Biomed) which brings in approximately $50 million in research and grant dollars each year.
The hospital is located in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County approximately 20 miles south of the Westwood campus of UCLA and 15 miles south of Downtown Los Angeles. Southern California provides a wonderful environment with year-round sunshine, relaxing breezes, beaches, nearby mountains and deserts. The cultural and ethnic diversity of L.A. also provides an array of delicious food and cultural events. Whatever you are looking for, L.A. has it for you!
Harbor-UCLA Family Health Center
The Harbor-UCLA Family Health Center is located three miles southwest of the medical center in Harbor City, a community of 36,000 people. We provide 25,000 patient visits each year. An estimated 44% of the population is Latinx, and 25% of the community lives below federal poverty level. In addition, the FHC accepts patients from Harbor’s catchment area and referrals from subspecialty clinics. The clinic is located on the second floor of a medical office building and consists of 26 exam rooms, an on-site pharmacy and procedure suites. This is the primary teaching site for our residents in clinical education and didactics.
Wilmington Family Health Center
The Wilmington Family Health Center is a community-based clinic located in one of the lowest income zip codes of L.A. County, 4½ miles from Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. The patient population is primarily Latinx. Residents in their 2nd and 3rd year spend one half-day session per month seeing patients at this site. The clinic provides 24,000 patient visits annually and has an on-site pharmacy.