Our family medicine residency curriculum focuses on your comprehensive professional development while also emphasizing:

Curriculum Highlights

  • During the month-long intern orientation, you’ll spend the full month of July together before rotating on other services.
  • Our program uses a CIHS (Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions) level 6 integrated behavioral health model.
  • We offer the opportunity to participate in and obtain an IHI certificate in quality improvement (QI). QI teams research and inform future practices in patient care.
  • Our dedicated POCUS curriculum offers supervised scanning and procedural skill development.
  • We offer a number of subspecialty clinics, such as addiction medicine, HIV, travel, and women’s health clinics and group visits.
  • Our tracks are designed to support those of you interested in fellowship or board certification. Tracks include global health, hospital medicine, lifestyle medicine, addiction medicine, and geriatrics.
  • Our SAC Health clinic gives you experience serving a broad population of patients in an underserved community.
  • We provide strong academic training in a supportive, wellness-focused environment. 

Curriculum by Year

Categorical PGY-1

Your first year of residency (PGY-1) will consist primarily of inpatient rotations. You’ll spend a half day each week in Family Medicine Clinic at SAC Health. Every Friday afternoon, you’ll have didactics.

  • Family Medicine Clinic / Orientation –1 block
  • Obstetrics – 2 blocks
  • Addiction Medicine –1 block
  • ICU – ½ block
  • Outpatient Surgery – ½ block
  • Inpatient Pediatrics – 1 block
  • Spanish Language Elective – 1 block
  • Nursery –  ½ block
  • Family Medicine Clinic - ½ block
  • Family Medicine Inpatient Service– 2 blocks
  • Backup – 1 block
  • Elective – 1 block
  • Internal Medicine – 1 block

Categorical PGY-2 through PGY-3

Starting your second year in our categorical program and going through your third, you’ll focus on outpatient rotations. You’ll also have opportunities in elective and procedure clinics.

You’ll spend more time in Family Medicine Clinic at SAC Health and continue Friday didactics.

PGY-2

  • Geriatrics – 1 block
  • Family Medicine Clinic – 1 ½ blocks
  • Backup – ½ block
  • Gynecology – 1 block
  • Population Health– ½ block
  • Community Medicine –½ block
  • Emergency Medicine – 1 block
  • Family Medicine Inpatient Service – 3 blocks
  • Outpatient Pediatrics Specialty Clinics – 1 block
  • Behavioral Medical Clinic – 1 block
  • Elective – 2 blocks

PGY-3

  • Outpatient Pediatrics – 1 block
  • Orthopedics – ½ block
  • Pain Medicine – ½ block
  • Family Medicine Clinic – 3 blocks
  • Cardiology – ½ block
  • Rheumatology – ½ block
  • Dermatology – ½ block
  • Backup – ½ block
  • Pediatric Emergency – 1 block
  • Elective – 3 blocks
  • Family Medicine Night Float – 2 blocks

Longitudinal Curriculum

  • Continuity Family Medicine clinic
  • Continuity OB clinic
  • Medication Assisted treatment (MAT)
  • Behavior Health, Quality Improvement (QI) 

Didactics & Educational Activities

Family Medicine

Every week, half-day teaching conferences provide learning opportunities for family medicine residents on a wide variety of topics. Conferences include lectures from faculty, senior residents and guest attendings from other specialties.

To keep residents healthy, monthly support groups are integrated into the didactic schedule.

With the guidance of a faculty mentor, you will:

  • Complete a scholarly activity project
  • Participate in quality improvement at our residency-affiliated FQHC, SAC Health.

Workshops held throughout the year allow interns and seniors to practice running code blues and managing obstetric emergencies and deliveries.

What Our Residents Are Saying
"Family medicine residency at Loma Linda equips us to learn how to empower people to make positive change and work towards wellness as they encounter multifaceted healing in whole person care."
Adwoa Wiafe, MD
Family Medicine Resident