University of California Los Angeles (LA County Harbor)
History
The Harbor-UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine was established in 1978 and its Emergency Medicine residency program is one of the first in the nation. The Harbor DEM faculty consists of 25 members who hold academic appointments at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and are members of the Professional Staff Association at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. In 1983, Harbor-UCLA became one of the first trauma centers in Los Angeles County. At that time, it was one of 22 centers in the County network. Today, Harbor is the only ACS Level I Trauma center serving the greater South Bay and South Central area of Los Angeles.
Harbor-UCLA is also the proud Founding Sponsor of WikEM, where the site and apps were first built and launched. We are happy to now share this great resource with all EM programs across the globe!
Leadership
- Department Chair: Amy Kaji MD, PhD
- Program Director: Madonna Fernandez-Frackelton, MD
- Associate/Assistant Program Director: David Tanen, M.D., FAAEM, FACMT, David Burbulys, MD, FACEP, FAAP, Adedamola Ogunniyi, M.D, and Ryan Pedigo, MD
- Vice Chair, Academic Affairs: Kabir Yadav, M.D.,
Training Locations
Primary Site
- Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Secondary Sites
- West LA VA Medical Center
- St. Mary's Medical Center
- Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
- White Memorial Medical Center
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Curriculum
PGY1
- ED Orientation: 2 weeks
- Adult Emergency Department: 8 weeks
- Pediatric Emergency Department: 8 weeks
- Psychiatric Emergency Department: 2 weeks
- Pediatric Psychiatric Emergency Department: 2 weeks
- Orthopedics: 4 weeks
- Medical ICU: 6 weeks
- Cardiac ICU: 4 weeks
- Surgical ICU: 4 weeks
- Obstetrics: 4 weeks
- Anesthesia: 2 weeks
- Emergency Ultrasound: 2 weeks
- Vacation: 4 weeks
PGY2
- PGY-2 ED Orientation: 2 weeks
- Adult Emergency Department: 26 weeks
- Pediatric Emergency Department: 8 weeks
- St. Mary's Emergency Department: 3 weeks
- West LA VA MICU: 3 weeks
- Trauma: 2 weeks
- EMS & Disaster Medicine: 2 weeks
- Elective/Jeopardy: 2 weeks
- Vacation: 4 weeks
PGY3
- Adult/Pediatric Emergency Department: 28 weeks
- Pediatric Emergency Department: 8 weeks
- Long Beach Memorial Emergency: 3 weeks
- Cedar-Sinai MICU: 3 weeks
- Elective/Jeopardy: 2 weeks
- Selective/Jeopardy: 4 weeks
- Vacation: 4 weeks
PGY4
- Adult and Pediatric Emergency Department: 30 weeks
- Selective (no jeopardy): 8 weeks
- White Memorial NICU: 3 weeks
- Long Beach Memorial Emergency: 3 weeks
- Admin/Jeopardy: 2 weeks
- Social EM
- Vacation: 4 weeks
Electives
- Selective Tracks*
- Social Emergency Medicine and Health Equity**
- Toxicology**
- Ultrasound**
- Admin/Public Health**
- Critical Care**
- Education**
- EMS**
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine**
- Sports Medicine**
- Wilderness Medicine**
- Clinical Consult/Community Medicine**
Fellowships
- Pediatric EM
- Ultrasound
- EMS
- Medical Education
- Research
- Administration
Contact Information
Christiane Roeder-Sanchez
- Residency Program Coordinator
- Phone: +1 424 306 5400
- CRoeder-sanchez@dhs.lacounty.gov