Kaiser Permanente Southern California Los Angeles Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a four-year university-adjacent, staff-model HMO-based Ob/Gyn residency embedded in Kaiser Permanente's large, integrated Southern California health system, emphasizing full-spectrum obstetric and gynecologic training within a cost-conscious, evidence-based, team-oriented care model. The tertiary Los Angeles Medical Center hosts in-house subspecialists across all Ob/Gyn subspecialties (MFM, Gyn Onc, FPMRS, REI, Complex Family Planning, MIGS, Pediatric/Adolescent Gyn), giving residents routine cross-subspecialty exposure and graduated procedural autonomy, culminating in fourth-years leading gynecologic surgical teams on most rotations. A night float system protects daytime educational time, and every resident completes at least one research and one quality-improvement project with dedicated biostatistician/coding support through the KPSC Research Department, reflecting an expectation of scholarly output rather than a purely clinical-service identity. The program values physicians who can operate effectively within a systems-based, multidisciplinary managed-care environment while developing both surgical proficiency and health-maintenance/preventive-care orientation.