Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a four-year Med-Peds program at a Seventh-day Adventist academic medical center serving San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, among the most medically underserved regions in the country, with training spanning five sites including a VA and a safety-net community health system (SAC Health). The program runs a combined continuity clinic staffed by dedicated Med-Peds attendings, separate from categorical residents, giving trainees a distinct primary-care identity within a large referral network covering 4.6 million people. Research is elective and encouraged (with required QI project presentation) rather than central to the program's mission, and graduates pursue primary care, hospitalist medicine, fellowship, or administrative leadership roles. The program explicitly frames its identity around "whole person care," integrating spiritual and social dimensions of medicine, and values residents drawn to underserved, community-oriented, mission-driven practice locally and globally.