Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Pomona Valley's Family Medicine Residency is a community hospital-based program built around full-spectrum, cradle-to-grave primary care, with explicit inclusion of obstetrics/maternal-child health, street medicine, home-based care, and skilled nursing exposure. The curriculum emphasizes community health equity as a recurring longitudinal theme across all three years alongside standard inpatient/outpatient blocks, and residents can pursue focused tracks in gynecology, maternal-child health, musculoskeletal medicine, and outpatient procedures. Research exists as a structured but limited component (two dedicated weeks in PGY1 plus conference-attendance funding) rather than a defining pillar, signaling a program oriented toward clinical breadth and community service over scholarly output. The program explicitly recruits physicians whose backgrounds reflect the cultural diversity of its patient population and frames its mission around producing community-focused physician leaders for underserved and safety-net-adjacent care settings.