Our story

Stretching from Sacramento to Fresno, California’s Central Valley consists of the San Joaquin basin, a catchment area of nearly 2 million people, with over 380,000 Kaiser Permanente members. With the goal of providing emergency healthcare to this wide population, the KPCVEM Program was founded in 2021. We offer a unique opportunity to train in Emergency Medicine within a highly coordinated and well-organized system focused on integrated health care. In addition, access to San Joaquin General Hospital, Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, and Children’s Hospital of Oakland, our trainees gain a comprehensive, well-rounded EM experience in a variety of clinical settings.

With our residents being the first of their kind in many of the rotations, and being an unopposed residency, they benefit from a serious lack of competition with regards to critical patients and procedures. In addition, there are several leadership and educational opportunities within the community, especially with respect to community health, reduction of healthcare disparities and building of health education pipelines for the Central Valley.