Prime West Consortium-San Dimas Community Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

A three-year community hospital residency at San Dimas Community Hospital, a Prime Healthcare facility in eastern Los Angeles County, accredited in 2024. It is approved for 24 residents, eight per class, is academically affiliated with the California University of Science and Medicine, and sends residents for up to three rotations a year to Desert Valley Hospital in Victorville. Each year is built from 13 four-week blocks, with the first year covering inpatient medicine, emergency medicine, cardiology, obstetrics and newborn care, pediatrics, orthopedics and sports medicine, and surgery. Ambulatory clinic blocks carry the continuity experience, and later years add behavioral health, nephrology, dermatology, geriatrics, health systems work, night float and several electives. The program states it aims to prepare graduates for hospital medicine, primary care or fellowship and names addressing socioeconomic disparities and primary care access among its goals.