Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Harbor-UCLA's Family Medicine residency is a safety-net, university-affiliated program operating as the "southern campus" of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, embedding trainees within LA County's public hospital system serving a largely uninsured, underinsured, and Latinx community. The curriculum is explicitly built around health equity, social determinants of health, and community-oriented primary care, with continuity clinics at the Harbor-UCLA Family Health Center and the low-income Wilmington Family Health Center, alongside structured community medicine and population health rotations. Career-oriented fellowship pathways exist in Faculty Development, Sports Medicine, and Community Health, and residents rotate through a broad procedural and specialty curriculum (MAT/substance use, palliative care, geriatrics, ambulatory surgery) suited to comprehensive full-scope generalist practice. The program values residents oriented toward advocacy and community partnership, explicitly stating its goal is to recruit trainees "who have a passion for primary care and health equity" and to develop them into "community advocates and partners," not merely clinicians.