HCA Healthcare Riverside Program

Program Identity & Fit

Riverside Community Hospital's Neurology Residency is a new four-year categorical program (PGY1 preliminary medicine year built directly into the track) housed in a 542-bed tertiary referral center for stroke, STEMI, sepsis and trauma in Inland Southern California. The program blends community-hospital collegiality with an explicit neuroscience research mission, and structures advanced training through outpatient subspecialty and pediatric neurology rotations at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, indicating reliance on an academic partner to round out subspecialty and pediatric exposure. High faculty-to-resident ratio, dedicated elective time in PGY3-4, and a resident-as-teacher/telemedicine block suggest an emphasis on individualized mentorship and flexibility for residents to pursue fellowship-track interests. As a first-generation HCA program serving a rapidly growing, historically underserved region, it appears to value residents drawn to building a program's identity while training in a high-acuity referral setting.