About Us
For more than 70 years, the Kaiser Permanente Southern California (KPSC) Residency Program has trained the finest physicians.
With maximum accreditation status from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, we offer 36 residency and fellowship training programs in 26 different specialties. Physicians at every medical center hold academic appointments at the leading medical schools in Southern California and train more than 300 residents and fellows each year.
Our Mission
The mission of Kaiser Permanente Southern California Graduate Medical Education (KPSC GME) is to provide world-class education, built on the pillars of Permanente Medicine, to prepare new physicians to care, to learn, to lead, and to improve the health of the people and diverse communities they will serve.
Pillars of GME Permanente Medicine
- Patient and Family Centered
- Compassionate
- Evidence Based
- Technology Enabled
- Ethical
- Team Delivered
- Physician Led
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What a Kaiser Permanente Residency Program can offer
- Close interaction with experienced faculty, many of whom hold academic appointments at leading medical schools in Southern California.
- Competitive residency positions that produce well-rounded, highly trained, compassionate physicians who can practice in the medical environment of their choice after graduation.
- Each teaching facility has its own medical library as well as 24 hour access to Kaiser Permanente’s Online Clinical Library.
- Kaiser Permanente is one of the nation’s most productive health research organizations, with national and regional research centers and clinician researchers embedded in medical centers across all regions, focusing on population health, clinical outcomes, and care delivery innovation.
- Fellows and residents are involved in ongoing research cases, clinical presentations and publications for national journals, academy meetings and research organizations.
- A commitment to teaching culturally responsive care in the excitingly diverse Southern California community. Our large and diverse patient base supports a full panel of fundamental and complex cases for each residency and/or fellowship.
- As an integrated health care system that leads in the technological development of the nation’s largest electronic medical records system, Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect ™. KP HealthConnect provides clinicians with immediate electronic access to complete patient medical records-regardless of time or location.
- A challenging work environment that maintains a “work-life balance” suitable for spending time with family and enjoying the Southern California landscape.
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About Kaiser Permanente
Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente is the nation’s largest nonprofit health plan, serving more than 12.6 million members in eight states and the District of Columbia.
- Permanente Medical Group(PMG) across the nation include: Southern California, Northern California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Mid-Atlantic (Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia), and the Northwest (Washington and Oregon).
- Southern California statistics: 16 hospitals, 200 medical offices, and over 9,000 physicians
- National statistics: 40 hospitals, 610 medical offices, and 25,500 Physicians, 78,600 Nurses, 243,800 Employees.
- Kaiser Permanente members nationally 12.6 million
- Kaiser Permanente members in Southern California: 4.9 million
- Kaiser Permanente operates KP HealthConnect®, one of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) systems, integrating inpatient, outpatient, pharmacy, laboratory, and billing data across all regions.