Internal Medicine Residency Program
The Internal Medicine Residency Program at West Anaheim Medical Center (WAMC) educates physicians by incorporating a well-rounded education in all areas of Internal Medicine and providing awareness and experience in healthcare delivery, research, education, and health administration. Resident physicians are exposed to all subspecialties of Internal Medicine, both hospital-based and ambulatory care, encompassing the diverse patient population of the WAMC great community area.
Internal Medicine Residency Program
The emphasis in the Internal Medicine Residency Program at West Anaheim Medical Center is to graduate an Internal Medicine physician who is a well-trained clinician in all the major clinical disciplines as well as in the social, psychological, and preventive aspects of patient care. Residents gain hands on procedural experience including common procedures such as intubations, central venous catheter, thoracentesis and paracentesis. Working together, the faculty and residents are continually reevaluating the curriculum to adapt to the ever-increasing complexity and sophistication of health care. Every attempt is made to tailor the training to the needs and interests of each resident for each year of the residency program. The core requirements for the residency are based on current ACGME guidelines.
Quick facts
- Program duration: 3 years
- Schedule: 13 4-week blocks
- Approved positions: 24
- Current filled positions: 24
Program Overview
Program Mission
The Internal Medicine Residency Program of West Anaheim Medical Center (WAMC) educates physicians incorporating a well-rounded education in all areas of Internal Medicine, as well as providing awareness and experience in healthcare delivery, research, education, and health administration. Resident physicians are exposed to all subspecialties of Internal Medicine, both hospital-based and ambulatory care, encompassing the diverse patient population of the WAMC great community area.
Program Goals
The Prime West Consortium West Anaheim Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency Program’s goals for our residents are to: Create an environment for scholarly activity and quality improvement with a focus on topics applicable to the community. Encourage life-long learning and improvement. Increase the number of primary care physicians in the greater Orange County region. Address socio-economic barriers to healthcare in the community. Prepare residents for exam passage for the ABIM board exam or AOA equivalent.
Program Aims
- To train well-rounded internal medicine physicians providing evidence-based, cost-effective, and high-quality healthcare.
- To instill in internal medicine physicians the importance of diversity and wellness for the mind and body.
- To recruit high-quality residents from diverse backgrounds that are committed to the region.
- To promote lifelong growth as a physician and within the healthcare system.
- To support faculty and residents in scholarly activity specifically designed to improve patient care, access, quality, and outcomes.
- To grow and sustain high-quality faculty through faculty development and mentoring
- To provide an educational curriculum that is innovative, responsive, and flexible to the learning goals of the residents and that will prepare them for the ABIM board exam.
Diversity Statement
Orange County and the surrounding communities are extremely diverse. We aim to capture and reflect the diversity in our residency personnel. Eventually, we hope to establish a diverse recruiting pipeline and retain our residents as faculty. In regard to residency personnel, we hope to recruit from the local community and provide tools and opportunities for advancement within our organization.
The program currently boasts diversity in its faculty and staff that is reflection of the community. The vision is to maintain our diversity by recruiting residents as mentioned in the prior section and eventually retaining them in our program. With time we hope to build a pipeline that continues to build the diversity in our program and serves the community by inspiring lower income high school students, mentoring underserved undergraduate students, fostering local medical students in primary care and then recruiting and retaining physicians in the community and program.
Program Values
Clinical
- To train residents through an evidence-based curriculum, to become well-rounded internal medicine physicians providing evidence-based, cost-effective, and family-centered healthcare to an underserved community.
- Encourage screening process of certain diagnosis such as substance abuse, depression, etc.
- To continuously improve clinical care through QI projects.
Education
- To actively recruit a richly diverse team of residents.
- To engage residents through bedside learning, multi-disciplinary coordination and learning, didactics, procedure workshops, and opportunities to personalize their training and support their autonomy through electives, inter-professional roles, and committee memberships.
- To grow and sustain faculty through development and mentoring.
Research
- To support faculty, residents, and medical students in community-based and clinical research specifically designed to improve patient care, quality, and outcomes.
- To guide and support residents throughout the research process from inquiry to presentation.
Graduates
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To produce internal medicine residency graduates with distinctive qualities and abilities that enable them to become community leaders, public servants, leaders in their medical fields in research and development, and ultimately instruments to invoke change and improvement in healthcare and society.
Medical Education: The Next Generation of Healthcare Leaders.
Prime Healthcare’s vision goes beyond providing high-quality, compassionate care to the patients we serve today but also toward ensuring that those patients have access to enough highly trained physicians tomorrow. That is why Prime Healthcare Foundation invested more than $60 million into establishing one of California’s newest medical schools, the California University of Science and Medicine (CUSM). Established in 2018 in San Bernardino County, one of the state’s most underserved areas, CUSM graduated its first cohort of 62 physicians in May 2022. The ceremony featured a $10 million donation to the school from the Prime Healthcare Foundation, a commencement address from Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN, and a video address from California Governor Gavin Newsom and First Lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Many graduates are from the Inland Empire region of Southern California, are from historically underrepresented groups, and are the first in their family to attend college, bringing unique cultural competencies and local roots to their respective fields of practice.
Anaheim, California – The Heart of SoCal
As the second-largest city in Orange County and a part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, Anaheim offers a glimpse into the California lifestyle like no other.
From top-notch restaurants and music venues to the magic of Disneyland and Knotts Berry Farm, Anaheim is well-known as a global destination. Home to the Angels baseball team, the Ducks hockey team, and the iconic House of Blues, the city holds within it a variety of family-friendly hotspots, culinary delights, charming boutique shops, and entertainment options that are a truly unique experience.
Anaheim serves as the beating heart of SoCal, nestled within the very center of California’s most exciting offerings. The city sits just a short drive from the breathtaking beaches of Orange County, the San Gabriel Mountains, and the oasis of Palm Springs. Downtown Los Angeles isn’t far, and San Diego is a couple of hours down the Southern California coast.
You can learn more about life in Anaheim by visiting https://www.visitanaheim.org/.
Contact Us:
For general information on the residency program, call 714-827-3000 or email
wamc-imrp@primehealthcare.com.
Please no walk-ins.
Mailing address:
West Anaheim Medical Center
Department of Graduate Medical Education
3033 W. Orange Ave., Orange, CA 92804