University of Southern California-Los Angeles General Medical Center USC-LA General Program

Program Identity & Fit

USC/LA General Medical Center is a high-volume, safety-net academic program in which residents train as primary surgeons and deliverers from intern year onward, managing a large, complex, high-risk obstetric and gynecologic population across LA General, Keck Hospital, Good Samaritan and Kaiser Panorama City (over 10,000 deliveries annually across sites). The four-year curriculum builds graduated autonomy, with juniors as primary surgeon for cesareans and increasingly complex gynecologic procedures, and exposes residents to the full subspecialty spectrum through in-house fellowships in Gyn Oncology, MFM, Fetal Surgery, REI, FPMRS and Complex Family Planning. Research is a structured, longitudinal component (dedicated research blocks R1-R4) rather than a bolt-on, and the program explicitly produces graduates recruited into both academic and community practice as well as fellowship. The department's identity centers on high-acuity, high-volume county-hospital training with early surgical independence and close subspecialty faculty mentorship for those pursuing further training.