Behavioral Science
An understanding of the emotional and behavioral issues of family care is an essential element of the family physician's training. Our residents learn how psychosocial stresses affect physical well-being, as well as how the experience of illness affects personal, family, and social life. Residency patients have access to psychology interns on-site and residents learn from this close collaboration. We provide intensive teaching in interviewing and counseling skills through videotaping, and co-counseling with a trained therapist. We believe that it is only through a biopsychosocial understanding of patient problems, plus the effective understanding of the doctor/patient relationship that optimal care can be provided for the patient. Residents explore the doctor/patient relationship in a Balint Group Format as well.

Patient Education
Residents will work with an RN dedicated to patient education curriculum.

Practice Management
Residents will be exposed to various models of practice, including MediCare, MediCal, managed care, PPO, IPA, private, solo, and group.

Geriatrics
Residents make house calls and nursing home visits with faculty supervision. Residents rotate through a comprehensive geriatrics assessment clinic on-site.

Community Medicine
Residents can take advantage of our community partnerships to train in the multi-ethnic, urban community of Glendale. At the Family Medicine Center, residents provide primary care to Glendale's uninsured children through community programs.

Education and Research
Residents have the opportunity to teach medical students from University of California -Los Angeles, Loma Linda, and University of Southern California schools of medicine. Faculty and residents are involved in scholarly work and research, publishing in a number of journals, including American Family Physician, JAMA, AAFP, Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, Family Medicine, and Journal of Family Practice. All residents will complete a community-based research project and poster presentation at the end of their senior year.

Medical Infomatics
In 2004, our residency implemented a state-of-the-art record system, GE Centricity EMR (formerly logicion). Patient's charts can be accessed from the hospital securely from remote locations leading to improved patient care. Residents learn how to use current technologies to access updated, evidence-based, point-of-care medical information. The EMR allows incorporation of practice guidelines and decision support into clinical encounter forms to improve clinical outcomes. Glendale Adventist Medical Center houses a medical library and provides librarian services with a large collection of medical journals.

Nutrition
A part-time clinical nutritionist on faculty offers didactics for residents and consultation with patients.

Addiction Medicine
During a six week Psychiatry Addiction Medicine rotation, residents rotate onsite at a residential treatment facility, working with patients in various stages of chemical dependency, withdrawal syndromes, and recovery.

Preventive Medicine
Residents learn counseling skills to motivate behavioral change. Residents learn how to do appropriate screening for health maintenance at various life cycle stages and to apply primary and secondary prevention modalities for chronic diseases.

Sports Medicine
We are the team physicians for Glendale Community College, so in that capacity we do pre-participation physicals, act as the game physicians, and staff a sports clinic. We also have a sports medicine/orthopedic rotation in addition to the four-week orthopedic rotation.

CHLA=Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
FMC=Family Medicine Center
GAMC=Glendale Adventist Medical Center
LAC-USC=LA County/USC Hospital

Additional Information

PGY1
Average in-house night calls for PGY1 residents is every 4th night for the Family Medicine Service Rotations (3 months); every 5th night at Children's Hospital for Inpatient Peds Rotation (1 month); every 3rd for OB-GYN (6 weeks), and every 4th for Surgery Rotations (8 weeks), and at an average of only every 7th night during other rotations.

PGY2
There is one 2 week Night Float block every 3rd night for OB and GYN (10 weeks); at an average of every 7 to 10 day night calls for the remainder of the year.

PGY3
There are 2 Night Float Blocks, and an average of every 7 to 10 day night calls. There is no assigned call during Electives.

• Orientation includes training and certification in Basic and Advanced Cardiac Life Support, and Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics, team building activities, introduction to the main training facilities and practice management.
• Continuity Clinics at the Family Medicine Center are assigned as follows: PGY1 residents to 1-2 half-day sessions per week; PGY2 residents to an average of 3 sessions weekly, and PGY3 residents to an average of 4 sessions per week.
• A wide array of elective rotations are available on and off site and are designed to enhance resident training in their particular areas of interest.
• The call schedule is designed to provide continuity of care and a humane call schedule. There is a float system for PGY2 and PGY3 level residents. The Night Float rotation is in 2 week blocks with 4 consecutive nights of duty from Monday to Thursday.