Curriculum

Residency Program Curriculum

Gracelight’s Family Medicine Residency Program provides a well-rounded, three-year training program that will equip providers with the skills and real-world experience to serve patients in both in-patient and out-patient settings with the knowledge to provide comprehensive and compassionate care. Additionally, our program provides opportunities for residents to pursue fellowship training and receive certifications of added qualifications.

Foundations of Medicine

Our residency program’s foundation is based on the principles of lifestyle and functional medicine. Our program faculty are trained and practice medicine to address lifestyle-based management and interventions. Our focus is on educating residents in helping patients foster health lifestyles, addressing the root causes of disease and placing a greater emphasis on prevention of health ailments rather than just treating patient symptoms.

Areas of Concentration

While our program focuses on family medicine, we provide residents with the flexibility to learn different areas of medicine through electives that cover a wide range of specialties. Each resident is assigned a designated mentor in their preferred area of concentration and is awarded a certificate in this field upon their graduation.
Offered Areas of Concentration Include:

  • Sports Medicine
  • Women’s Health / OB
  • Addiction Medicine / Street Medicine
  • Behavioral Health
  • Procedure Clinic / Wound Care
  • Integrative Medicine / Lifestyle Medicine
  • Hospital Medicine / ICU
  • Cardiology
  • Nephrology
  • Infectious Disease
  • Optometry
  • Newborn/Pediatrics/NICU
  • Urgent Care
  • Hospice/Palliative Care
  • Practice Management
  • Global

Resident Life In & Out of Clinic

Resident can expect a comprehensive learning schedule of both classroom and clinical education. Life during a residency program can be summed up as challenging, and rewarding. We aim to provide residents with the knowledge and experience to lead successful careers in medicine, while also allowing for them to live a balanced life and enjoy the climate, culture and lifestyle Los Angeles provides.

Three-Year Residency Program Overview:

  • 18-20 weeks of Inpatient Adult Medicine
  • 10-12 weeks of Night Float
  • 8 weeks Labor and Delivery
  • 8 weeks Women’s Health
  • 8 weeks Inpatient Peds
  • 12 weeks Outpatient Peds
  • 8 weeks Emergency Medicine
  • 24 weeks of Personalized Electives
  • Over 50 weeks in continuity clinics

Postgraduate Year 1 (PGY1)

  • Inpatient adult 6 weeks (2 weeks x 3 rotations)
  • Inpatient Peds 4 weeks
  • L&D 8 weeks (4 weeks x 2 rotations)
  • Surgery 4 weeks
  • Outpatient Peds 4 weeks
  • MSK 4 weeks
  • Addiction Med 4 weeks
  • Electives 4 weeks
  • Vacation 4 weeks (2 weeks x 2)

Postgraduate Year 2 (PGY2)

  • Inpatient adult 6 weeks (2 weeks x 3 rotations)
  • Night Float 6 weeks (2 weeks x 3 rotations)
  • Inpatient Peds 4 weeks
  • Women’s Health 4 weeks
  • Emergency Medicine 4 weeks
  • Outpatient Peds 4 weeks
  • MSK 4 weeks
  • ICU 4 weeks
  • Electives 8 weeks (4 weeks x 2)
  • Vacation 4 weeks (2 weeks x 2)

Postgraduate Year 3 (PGY3)

  • Inpatient adult 6 weeks (1 weeks x 6)
  • Women’s Health 4 weeks
  • Emergency Medicine 4 weeks
  • In/Outpatient Peds 4 weeks
  • MSK 4 weeks
  • Inpatient Psych 4 weeks
  • Geriatrics 4 weeks
  • Hospice Palliative 4 weeks
  • Practice Management 4 weeks x 2)
  • Electives 12 weeks
  • Vacation 4 weeks (2 weeks x 2)

Resident Shift Schedules

Gracelight’s residents work 12-hour shifts covering emergency medicine, pediatrics, and OB/GYN care. Residents will work rotations and on-call shifts within each of these areas of focus.