Rotation Sites

  • The 152-bed flagship hospital for Kaiser Permanente in the Central Valley. The Emergency Department has approximately 57,000 annual visits with 17.9% being pediatric visits. MMC is a regional stroke center and a regional STEMI center.

    This site will host the majority of your EM rotations, as well as Anesthesiology, L&D, HNS, Cardiology, and Neurology rotations.

  • Formerly known as Children’s Hospital Oakland, is a 191-bed teaching hospital. The hospital is a level 1 pediatric trauma center (1 of only 5 in California) with an average of 700 trauma patients per year. Children’s sees more than 45,00 emergency department visits per year.

  • Kaiser Oakland Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is a 12-bed unit with a diverse mix of medical and surgical patients, including post-cardiac surgeries. Residents will train in this high acuity educational setting with the support of 24 hour in-house intensivist coverage.

  • For Trauma, EM, MICU, and SICU rotations, DMC is a 461-bed hospital with over 100,000 emergency department visit per year. Doctors is a level II trauma center and STEMI receiving center located near downtown Modesto.

  • Two distinct sites where you will ride along an ambulance crew for your EMS rotation

  • EM 30 weeks

    Anesthesia 2 weeks

    Labor and Delivery 2 weeks

    Head and Neck Surgery 2 weeks

    Critical Care 4 weeks

    Trauma 4 weeks

    Vacation 4 weeks

    PEM 4 weeks

  • EM 28 weeks

    Cardiology 2 weeks

    SICU 4 weeks

    MICU 4 weeks

    PEM 4 weeks

    EMS 2 weeks

    Neurology 2 weeks

    Research 2 weeks

    Vacation 4 weeks

  • EM 26 weeks

    PEM 4 weeks

    US 2 weeks

    Research 2 weeks

    Trauma 4 weeks

    MICU 4 weeks

    Electives 2 weeks

    Vacation 4 weeks

    PICU 4 weeks

Didactics

Weekly didactics are held on Thursdays from 8am-1pm. With our well-rounded curriculum, residents have the opportunity to present on key topics, listen to the expertise from guest lecturers, and converse with faculty who regularly attend every week. Once a month, residents and faculty immerse themselves in simulated cases with professional actors and local EMS in our Sim center.

We encourage creativity with presentations! Whether it’s Game Show style, Haunted Houses, or Escape Rooms, we like to stay entertained during didactics.

Journal Club

Every month, residents are excused from clinical duties to attend journal club, where residents lead discussions regarding research articles. Faculty, families, and medical students are always welcomed. Whether at a faculty’s home or at a local restaurant, journal club highlights the overlap between scientific debate and bonding with your residency family.

Research & QI Projects

All residents have a great deal of support needed to accomplish their research requirements by the end of their training. With dedicated research faculty, an expansive online kaiser library, and library staff to assist with literature reviews and statistical analyses, residents often find themselves presenting their research and QI projects at regional and national conventions.