The Internal Medicine Residency Program at Huntington Hospital provides a well-rounded clinical experience in a variety of medical specialties with an emphasis on general internal medicine. The program is balanced between inpatient and ambulatory activities and designed to give the residents progressive responsibility throughout their training. The residents gradually assume their role as leaders of medical teams, teachers to junior residents and medical students, and primary care physicians as they progress through the three years of residency.

Huntington Hospital is committed to the teaching program, ensuring that residents work and learn in an institution with readily available support services.  The Residency Program strives to create an environment where the learning potential of each resident is maximized and experience is provided through a broad variety of educational experiences.  The optimal blend of autonomy and supervised experience will be provided by the faculty.

The Internal Medicine Residency Program is organized under the direction of Anthony G. Koerner, MD, Program Director. The faculty consists of both paid and volunteer physicians who are responsible for the education and supervision of the residents. The program is approved for 23 training positions.

We invite you to submit an application to our Internal Medicine Residency Program through the ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service) program.

The Residency Curriculum

The curriculum provides residents with a variety of experiences to develop skills in each of the six general competencies described by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education:

Patient Care
Medical Knowledge
Practice-Based Learning
Communications Skills
Professionalism
System-Based Practice

Developing and maintaining a dynamic curriculum to meet residents’ educational needs is an ongoing process, involving regular review and program updates.  Please see the Internal Medicine Curriculum for detailed program information.

Description of Services

 Resident Continuity Clinic

The medical resident provides care for his/her patients under the supervision of an attending physician. Each resident attends his/her continuity clinic weekly. Clinic patients requiring hospitalization are assigned to the House Service on call and the responsibility for the patient’s care will be returned to the original clinic resident at discharge.  Residents will refer patients to subspecialty clinics as needed.

General Medicine Service

There are four inpatient general medicine services, each consisting of one second or third year resident, one first year resident, and one or two medical students. These services are supervised by attending physicians from the teaching faculty. The Chief Resident is actively involved with the day to day care of patients on all four medicine services and directs the Morning Report conference.  The residents serve as the patient’s primary physician throughout the course of their stay in the hospital and may provide follow-up care in their weekly continuity clinics.

Huntington Hospital Subspecialty Services

Monthly rotations through Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Hematology / Oncology, and Neurology rotations provide the residents with experience in consultation and direct care of patients with problems pertinent to the assigned subspecialty.  A member of the teaching faculty supervises all cases.  Residents have an opportunity to learn procedures pertinent to the subspecialty and will also receive outpatient experience through the outpatient clinics or offices.

Critical care is a required rotation for each year of residency. The residents on this service work closely with the full-time intensivist in the management of critically ill patients. Residents on the general medicine and subspecialty consulting services also follow their patients in the ICU.

This rotation will acquaint the residents with the varied patient population of a busy Level II trauma center and emergency department. The residents are exposed to acute and chronic diseases and patient problems from every specialty and subspecialty. Huntington Hospital is the only San Gabriel Valley hospital with a Level II trauma center.

Huntington Ambulatory Care Clinic Rotation

Residents rotate through a variety of subspecialty clinics in both their second and third years of residency. Residents also receive ambulatory care experience as they rotate through the various inpatient subspecialties, maintaining the ambulatory care experience in the subspecialty at the Huntington Ambulatory Care Center or in private offices.

Required and elective second and third year outpatient rotations give additional experience in ambulatory care. The residents are assigned to work in private offices and clinics within the community. Additional rotations can be arranged to meet the individual educational needs of each resident.

Endocrinology, Rheumatology, Hematology and Infectious Diseases rotations are provided at LAC+USC Medical Center.  As an affiliate teaching hospital of the Keck School of Medicine (USC), Huntington Hospital provides its residents with the benefit of education and supervision by the USC faculty at the LAC+USC Medical Center.  Additional rotations at USC and outside hospitals can be arranged to meet the individual educational needs of each resident.

Internal Medicine Conferences