All residents receive extensive training in a variety of outpatient sites.
Residents attend a weekly continuity care clinic beginning early in the internship year.
The clinics are located in the VA Medical Center, Loma Linda University's Primary Care Clinic and at Riverside General Hospital. At each site, residents develop a close working relationship not only with their patients, but also with their colleagues and faculty. During the internship year, residents rotate for one month on the ambulatory block rotation. This experience is designed to introduce the intern to the broad knowledge and skills needed to practice ambulatory medicine. Residents rotate through subspecialty clinics such as adolescent medicine, allergy, dermatology, diabetes, ENT, endocrinology, geriatrics, podiatry, and preoperative clinic.