Internal Medicine Inland Empire - Facility

Our residency rotate through two major Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers in the Inland Empire:

San Bernardino County Service Area: Fontana Medical Center and Ontario Medical Centers

The Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center is a 314 bed, tertiary care multi-specialty teaching hospital. The hospital and adjacent clinical offices are regarded as the major referral center for the entire Inland Empire. Kaiser Permanente offers an unparalleled diversity of patients spanning from primary care to complex tertiary cases, with the ethnic diversity found in a rapidly growing suburban area of Southern California. About one third of our admissions are non-members from our communities.

Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center is a teaching hospital for Kaiser Permanente residents, fellows, affiliate residents and medical students from Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, UC Riverside School of Medicine, Western University School of Medicine, and Loma Linda University School of Medicine.

Residents have access to cutting edge advances as a tertiary referral center, inclusive of a Coronary Catheterization Lab, Cardiothoracic surgery, Neurosurgical referral center, Stroke Center, and diverse specialty care.

Faculty also hold academic appointments at Loma Linda University Medical School, Western University, and UC Riverside School of Medicine and Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine

Specialty Services which support Internal Medicine Education:

Cardiac Surgery Department/Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
Inpatient Dialysis Unit
ICU
Cardiac Cath Lab
Neurosurgery
Emergency Department
Gastroenterology Endoscopy Suite
Pulmonary Bronchoscopy Suite
Certified Stroke Center

About 60% of rotations take place at our Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical center, and about 5% of our rotations take place at Ontario Medical Center

Riverside Medical Center

The Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center features a 226 bed multi-specialty teaching hospital located in Riverside, California, serving over 550,000 members of the Inland Empire—from Palm Springs to Temecula and many other diverse areas of Riverside County. Faculty at the Riverside center span all specialties of Internal Medicine and provide hands-on mentorship in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center is a major teaching hospital for Kaiser Permanente residents, fellows, community affiliate residents, including Family Medicine, General Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, OB-GYN, Urology, Psychiatry residents, and medical students.

Faculties at Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center provide robust research support: residents publish scholarly activity annually, including in International Journals. Residents also regularly present for Grand Round CME Lecture, abstracts in local and national meetings.

Faculty hold academic appointments at UC Riverside, Loma Linda University, and Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine.

Residents have direct access to diagnostic images, review real time lab and consult results, ability to response to telephone and email messages to their patients on site and off site with provided Kaiser Permanente laptop. There are links to pharmacy and publication databases at bedside for reference support during patient care activities.
Roughly 35% of our rotational experiences take place at Riverside Medical Center.