Continuity Clinics
Overview
At UC San Diego, residents can choose from a wide variety of continuity clinic experiences. These range from clinics serving historically underserved communities to community-based primary care practices. Across these settings, residents care for diverse patient populations throughout San Diego.
Residents remain at one continuity clinic throughout their training, allowing them to develop lasting relationships with patients and faculty mentors. Each clinic is supervised by internal medicine attending physicians and incorporates a weekly, case-based outpatient curriculum used by residency programs nationwide. This combination of longitudinal patient care, faculty mentorship, and structured learning prepares residents for outpatient practice and the internal medicine board examination.
UC San Diego Hillcrest Internal Medicine, also known as "4th and Lewis Internal Medicine," is located a few blocks away from UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest. The clinic serves a culturally and ethnically diverse patient population from San Diego and surrounding communities, including some patients who travel several hours to receive care. Many languages are represented, and a substantial number of patients primarily speak Spanish. Residents manage their own longitudinal panels, allowing them to build lasting relationships with their patients over the course of residency. The clinic uses Epic, providing access to documentation from across the UC San Diego Health system.
UC San Diego La Jolla Clinic
The UC San Diego Internal Medicine Group – La Jolla includes a group of experienced attending physicians with well-established practices. The clinic primarily serves patients from La Jolla and communities throughout northern San Diego County. Residents manage their own longitudinal patient panels and gain experience with a broad range of primary care needs, including routine and preventive care, chronic pain management, and women’s health. The clinic uses Epic, providing access to documentation from across the UC San Diego Health system.
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VA Primary Care Clinics
The VA San Diego Healthcare System clinics, located in La Jolla, Mission Valley, and Sorrento Valley, deliver outstanding primary care to a diverse population of male and female veterans of all ages. These clinics provide residents the opportunity to build and manage their patient panel under the supervision of excellent general medicine and women's health faculty. Residents are incorporated into Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT) that include physicians, nurses, clerical staff, pharmacists, dietitians, and mental health practitioners embedded in primary care. Records utilize the national VA electronic medical records system, CPRS.