Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Cedars-Sinai's Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Residency is a small, highly selective five-year ACGME program (two residents per year) anchored at a major academic tertiary/quaternary medical center in Los Angeles, with additional exposure through Kaiser Permanente and Rady Children's Hospital San Diego, broadening pediatric otolaryngology experience beyond the home institution. The program is embedded within a research-intensive academic health sciences enterprise (100+ labs spanning surgery, oncology, genomics, and translational science), signaling that formal research training is woven into the curriculum alongside clinical and didactic components. Faculty span all major otolaryngology subspecialties, and the program's own framing emphasizes fellowship preparation, translational medicine, and subspecialty depth rather than a generalist community practice output. Its structure and affiliations suggest the program values candidates from strong academic medical school backgrounds who can engage with rigorous, research-embedded surgical training in a complex, multi-site urban environment.