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Clinical Curriculum R1 YearThe R1 year is structured to provide our residents with a diverse and comprehensive experience allowing for a strong clinical foundation and knowledge base to build upon. This begins with “Intern Bootcamp”—a unique two-week program that orients our interns to our two home hospitals (Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and Olive View-UCLA Medical Center), complemented with core lectures, skill building and introductory shifts. Our interns spend a total of 24 weeks in the Emergency Department throughout their first year. Close faculty supervision and clinical teaching giveour interns the opportunity to pick up even the highest acuity patients right from the start. Interns will also rotate through various medical, surgical, and intensive care services, where they have the opportunity to learn from leaders in these fields and foster professional relationships and friendships with physicians whom they will be working closely throughout the rest of residency.
One of our recent graduates (and now attending at Antelope Valley), Dr. Rachel Shing, on her ultrasound rotation! Our department chair, Dr. Greg Hendey, teaching splinting techniques and orthopedic pearls during Intern Boot Camp! R2 YearThe R2 year is focused on the mastery of caring for critically ill patients, becoming more efficient in the Emergency Department, and developing expertise in advanced procedures. The R2s manage all the airways during the traumas, run their own medical resuscitations, and get priority in more advanced procedures, such as tube thoracostomy, procedural sedation, and central venous access.
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These experiences are bolstered by two weeks at Antelope Valley Hospital—a haven for procedures, critical traumas and resuscitations. During their Cardiac and Medical ICU months, the R2s function as seniors and code leaders. These ICU rotations are consistently regarded as invaluable learning experiences. This year also provides the opportunity to work with the varied and high acuity pediatric population at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. During the year, the residents gain some elective time during which they use to develop their interests or advance their clinical skills.
At the end of this year, the second year residents are well prepared to handle most emergency situations. R2 Year BreakdownEmergency Medicine at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center (15 weeks)Emergency Medicine at Olive View‐UCLA Medical Center (15 weeks)Emergency Medicine at Antelope Valley Hospital (2 weeks)Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (2 weeks)CCU at Cedars‐Sinai Medical Center (4 weeks)MICU at Olive View‐UCLA Medical Center (4 weeks)Surgical ICU/Liver ICU at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center (4 weeks)Elective Time (2 weeks)Vacation (4 weeks). Brandon Firestone and Kellie Kitamura placing a central line during their Olive View MICU rotation. R3 YearThe R3 year is when our residents become true experts in Emergency Medicine. As seniors, they learn how to efficiently function and oversee the Emergency Department. R3s now mentor and teach those junior to them, whether it is supervising junior residents on procedures or taking presentations from medical students. During the third year, there is an emphasis on autonomy and dedicated training time in Pediatric Emergency Medicine (CHLA or another Pediatric Emergency Department of one’s choosing) and Community Emergency Medicine (at Antelope Valley Hospital, where residents are the “go-to person” for all procedures, traumas and codes).
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A dedicated toxicology rotation is incorporated into the third year, where our residents receive a stipend to help fund a two-week rotation at any poison control center in the US or even internationally (most recently London and Australia)! Finally, the third year provides six weeks of elective time allowing our residents to explore and develop their passions and areas of interest in Emergency Medicine. Popular electives include EMS, Aeromedical Operations, High Altitude Medicine, Sports Medicine, and Global Health. R3 Year BreakdownEmergency Medicine at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center (16 weeks)Emergency Medicine at Olive View‐UCLA Medical Center (16 weeks)Emergency Medicine at Antelope Valley Hospital (4 weeks)Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (4 weeks)Toxicology Rotation (2 weeks)Elective Time (6 weeks)Vacation (4 weeks).
Some of our residents catching the sunrise on the helipad during “Helicopter Rounds” at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center after a night shift! Toxicology RotationA two-week Toxicology rotation is built into the R3 year. Despite being one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States, Los Angeles does not have a Poison Control Center. Therefore, the residency program provides a sizeable stipend for travel and living expenses to complete a toxicology rotation at any accredited Poison Control Center worldwide! Recently, our residents have traveled to San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, New York City, London, and Australia. This experience allows our residents to travel to world-renowned Poison Control Centers and learn from some of the top toxicology experts in the field. The best part is that classmates often have overlapping toxicology blocks and they can arrange to travel together for a very fun and memorable experience.
R4 YearThe R4 year is constructed to allow our “super seniors” the freedom to pursue and develop their individual interests, while also providing a high degree of autonomy and graduated responsibility, enabling them to master Emergency Medicine in preparation for independent practice. In the fourth year, room is built into the clinical schedule to allow all of our 4th year residents the opportunity to moonlight independently as an attending in local Emergency Departments. At our primary training sites, their roles change to a supervisory role with an emphasis on teaching juniors, while also simultaneously overseeing department flow and efficiency. The R4 year also builds in 12 weeks of elective time to allow pursuit of individual passions within the specialty, including opportunities to practice internationally. Some examples of rotations our seniors have done include: Surgical ICU, Wilderness Medicine, Hyperbaric Medicine, EMS, AirSquad Critical Transport, Aerospace Medicine at NASA, Rural Emergency Medicine on the Big Island in Hawaii, and Global Health Rotations in Chile, Antarctica, Bali, China, Burma, Mexico, Honduras, and South Africa! The pre-tending rotation aka STEM (Senior Teaching in Emergency Medicine) rotation gives our residents a preview of working in an Academic Emergency Department as an attending.
This unique experience allows our 4th year residents to effectively act as the attending to our junior residents and medical students. They act in a supervisory role dedicated to solely teaching junior learners without seeing patients independently. A favorite experience by both senior & junior residents! These experiences make our graduates highly desirable candidates nationwide as they have the opportunity to become exceptionally polished and experienced during their 4th year. R4 Year BreakdownEmergency Medicine at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center (14 weeks)Emergency Medicine at Olive View‐UCLA Medical Center (14 weeks)Emergency Medicine at Antelope Valley Hospital (4 weeks)Administration Rotation (2 weeks)STEM (Senior Teaching in EM) (2 weeks)Elective Time (12 weeks)Vacation (4 weeks).
Hospital in California, United States Olive View–UCLA Medical CenterGeographyLocation14445 Olive View Dr., California, United States:OrganizationPublicUniversity of California, Los AngelesServicesBeds377HistoryFoundedOctober 27, 1920; 98 years ago ( 1920-10-27)LinksWebsiteListsOlive View–UCLA Medical Center is a, funded by, located in the neighborhood of. It is one of the primary healthcare delivery systems in the north, especially the area's large indigent population. Olive View is also the closest county hospital serving the after High Desert Hospital was converted to an urgent care clinic in 2003. Contents.Overview The 377-bed replacement facility built on the old Sylmar site was opened on May 8, 1987. Olive View incorporated UCLA in its name, becoming Olive View–UCLA Medical Center in 1992. In May 1997, Olive View–UCLA Medical Center became a part of ValleyCare, which maintains responsibility for the care of the medically indigent, low income, uninsured residents of the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys.Olive View–UCLA Medical Center has an affiliation with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, offering residency programs in major specialty areas as well as providing an on-campus School of Nursing. It is also a rotation site for medical students at UCLA.History The hospital was founded on October 27, 1920, as a (TB) sanatorium to relieve overcrowding at, and when it was no longer needed for TB treatment, the facilities became an acute care hospital in 1970.In 1962, Olive View Hospital performed the first open heart surgery successfully in the San Fernando Valley, and one of the first in Southern California.The hospital was known as Olive View Hospital before it became affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles's School of Medicine in 1970.
Olive View Hospital became Olive View Medical Center, a teaching hospital and a new 888-bed hospital was dedicated in December 1970.The hospital was severely damaged six weeks after it opened during the 6.5–6.7 (February 9, 1971), which caused the collapse of the four stairwell wings, as well as the parking structure. The first floor columns of the five-story main structure nearly failed as well, shifting the entire building 18 inches off center to the north, which nearly brought down the entire structure. The building was damaged beyond repair, and demolished by on May 31, 1973. For the next sixteen years, Olive View served its patients through an interim facility at MidValley in Van Nuys.Before the demolition, the hospital served as a filming location, where it played itself in a 1973 episode of the television show.
It also served as the set for a nuclear war-damaged then-futuristic jail facility in the TV series in the seventh-season episode 'Two Thousand'.On March 9th, 1975, Security Officer Murray F. Olsen was killed in the line of duty on the grounds of Olive View Medical Center. Olsen observed a suspect crash his truck through the gates of the medical center and race onto the hospital grounds. Pursuing the suspect in his county patrol car, he made a vehicle stop and confronted the suspect, Steven Vyeda of.
Responding officers found Officer Olson deceased on the ground next to his vehicle; he had been stabbed and then shot with his own weapon. His official cause of death was 'contusion of spinal cord, gunshot wound to face, multiple stab wounds' per the Coroner's report. The suspect was shot and killed by police later that day.The rebuilt Olive View-UCLA Medical Center was opened in 1987.In June, 1992, approves contracts that allow postgraduate physicians from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to work at Olive View–UCLA Medical Center. Physicians can now receive training not available at Cedars-Sinai. Olive View–UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar is provided with three additional doctors at a cost to the county of $9,000 a month.The 2008 caused damage to several outbuildings, and led to an evacuation of the intensive care patients from the hospital.Notable staff., co-founder of the Anesthesia History Association, former chair of the department of anesthesiology.See also.References.