At MLK Community Healthcare, we are looking for socially-conscious physicians interested in improving the health of one of the most medically-underserved communities in the nation. MLKCH Internal Medical Resident trainees have broad exposure to a wide range of pathologies and comorbidities. From diabetes and asthma, to heart, lung and kidney disease, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the most challenging and prevalent conditions facing California and the nation.
About Internal Medicine Residency
Committed to the underserved
The MLK Community Healthcare Internal Medicine Residency Program is central to our health system’s non-profit mission to bring high-quality, collaborative, compassionate care to the medically-underserved community of South Los Angeles.
Core rotations and curriculum
Residents at MLKCH will gain educational experience throughout the three-year Internal Medicine Residency Program, including critical care medicine, endocrinology, pulmonology, cardiology and more. MLKCH believes that this is the best way to enhance the inpatient and outpatient education experience. During the one-week ambulatory, Residents will also have dedicate protected time for quality, research and scholarly activity.
Read more about our curriculum and see a list of core and elective rotations, please click here.
Diverse practice locations
Residents will have the opportunity to practice primary and specialty care at a variety of locations and at every level of care. From preventive medicine to acute complex medical conditions and everything in between. Clinical rotations will occur at MLK Community Healthcare, UCLA, and Cedars-Sinai.
Since our founding, we have had one purpose: to make the lives of those living in our community healthier.
Dr. Shing Cheng
A diverse and exciting city
South Los Angeles offers an unprecedented opportunity to engage with the most urgent and fascinating health issues facing California and the nation.
Competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits
With the support of visionary philanthropy, MLKCH offers salaries at, or exceeding, market rate. This unique funding model has enabled us to attract mission-driven physicians from the nation's leading academic centers.
Program objectives
- Train physicians who role model cultural sensitivity and empathy, and understands the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to improve health outcomes.
- Develop physicians who understand the importance of our mission through providing person-centered, compassionate care to the community of south Los Angeles.
- Prepare physicians of the future who will recognize and respond to social determinants of health, thus able to identify and improve healthcare disparities.
- Produce physicians who will deliver evidence-based health promotion to our community.
- Create a new generation of physicians who will always demonstrate leadership and advocacy to reduce healthcare disparities.
- Develop a program that promotes physician wellness by focusing on development of a growth mindset that allows them to rise to the challenge and succeed not only in residency but also when they are in practice.
