St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, CA offers a three year internal medicine program following a one year preliminary medicine program. The first year pre-med program accommodates about seven new interns annually. All professors have academic appoints through UCLA. Students in this residency program receive "hands-on" training through core rotations at St. Mary's Medical and trauma centers, rounded out with pathology and research teaching and training.
The Long Beach Memorial Medical Center provides a family practice residency program for medical students who aspire to become family physicians. New interns are admitted as simulated patients overnight to see what it is like from the patient's perspective. Long Beach Memorial Medical Center teaches core values to students such as excellence, harmony, collaboration, ethics, social consciousness and innovation with an emphasis on patient-centered care.
The internal medicine residency program offered by the Pacific Hospital of Long Beach focuses on the mastery of clinical interviewing skills, differential diagnosis, physical examination, therapeutic techniques and diagnostic testing approaches. The program also emphasizes disease prevention and counseling. While the hospital does not provide training in invasive or surgical cardiology, it does have an ICU and general medicine ward, general internal medicine training, and teaching in specialized areas of medicine such as neurology and endocrinology.
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center has a master affiliation agreement that allows students from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, to participate in several residency programs. These programs include anesthesiology, obstetrics and gynecology, emergency medicine, family medicine, podiatry, pathology, urology, general surgery, pediatrics and plastic surgery. In addition, medical students from the University of Southern California may do a residency in emergency medicine or pediatric dentistry at LBMMC. Downey Regional Medical Center may do a residency in family medicine and students from Harbor-UCLA may do a residency in emergency medicine at this LBMMC.