Welcome from the Program Director
Thank you for your interest in our Centinela Hospital Medical Center (CHMC) Internal Medicine residency training program! I am excited to have this opportunity to connect with you. Our program is part of the Prime West Consortium of academic community hospitals and is affiliated with the California University of Science and Medicine (CUSM). While the residency training program welcomed its first class of interns in 2022, the hospital has served Inglewood and the surrounding community since 1924. Our program was founded on the belief in serving our community by training the next generation of physicians to become world-class clinicians, teachers, and leaders in our field. This year, we welcomed our second batch of interns and look forward to seeing our first batch of third-year residents graduate next year to pursue their ambitions.
Our residents are the biggest asset of our program. We measure our program’s success by the success of our residents. Our wins and losses are shared, and that feeling permeates our residency. For this reason, we strive to provide a strong, well-rounded, and diverse inpatient and ambulatory experience with opportunities for teaching, research, quality improvement, and patient advocacy. We believe that the training our residents at CHMC will prepare our graduates to pursue any desired career choice or fellowship successfully.
We are looking for applicants who are motivated, enthusiastic, diverse, open-minded, caring, and willing to learn. We look forward to meeting many of you during our interview season and discovering how we can help you achieve your career and life goals.
Sincerely,
Adarsha S Bajracharya, M.D., MMSc.
Internal Medicine Residency Program Director
We are focused on both our inpatient and outpatient experiences for our residents. We firmly believe in being supportive and allowing each resident flexibility to participate in areas that are of interest to them. Our residents experience a balance of professional autonomy with progressive levels of supervision.
We offer competitive annual salaries and an education fund to support learning and a thorough benefits package.
Program Mission
The Prime West Consortium Centinela Hospital Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency Program aims to provide a high-quality, well-rounded educational experience for resident physicians to be competent hospitalists, primary care physicians and/or pursue a fellowship. The program will aim to address socio-economic disparities, increase access to healthcare and grow the number of physicians in Inglewood, CA and the surrounding communities.
The aims are to instill the core value of service and commitment to the under-served medical communities. Through a humanistic working environment and curriculum, the program intends to inspire physicians to promote wellness and enact positive change in existing models of care through clinically sound, responsible, innovative, and compassionate care.
Program Goals
The Prime West Consortium Centinela Hospital Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency Program’s goals for our residents are to: Create an environment for scholarly activity and quality improvement with a focus on topics applicable to the community. Encourage life-long learning and improvement. Increase the number of primary care physicians in the greater Inglewood region. Address socio-economic barriers to healthcare in the community. Prepare residents for exam passage for the ABIM board exam or AOA equivalent.
Program Aims
- To train well-rounded internal medicine physicians providing evidence-based, cost-effective, and high-quality healthcare.
- To instill in internal medicine physicians the importance of diversity and wellness for the mind and body.
- To recruit high-quality residents from diverse backgrounds that are committed to the region.
- To promote lifelong growth as a physician and within the healthcare system.
- To support faculty and residents in scholarly activity specifically designed to improve patient care, access, quality, and outcomes.
- To grow and sustain high-quality faculty through faculty development and mentoring
- To provide an educational curriculum that is innovative, responsive, and flexible to the learning goals of the residents and that will prepare them for the ABIM board exam.
Diversity Statement
Los Angeles County, specifically Inglewood, is extremely diverse. We aim to capture and reflect the diversity in our residency personnel. Eventually, we hope to establish a diverse recruiting pipeline and retain our residents as faculty. In regard to residency personnel, we hope to recruit from the local community and provide tools and opportunities for advancement within our organization.
The program currently boasts diversity in its faculty and staff that is reflection of the community. The vision is to maintain our diversity by recruiting residents as mentioned in the prior section and eventually retaining them in our program. With time we hope to build a pipeline that continues to build the diversity in our program and serves the community by inspiring lower income high school students, mentoring underserved undergraduate students, fostering local medical students in primary care and then recruiting and retaining physicians in the community and program.
Program Values
- Clinical
- To train residents through an evidence-based curriculum, to become well-rounded internal medicine physicians providing evidence-based, cost-effective, and family-centered healthcare to an underserved community.
- Encourage screening process of certain diagnosis such as substance abuse, depression, etc.
- To continuously improve clinical care through QI projects.
- Education
- To actively recruit a richly diverse team of residents.
- To engage residents through bedside learning, multi-disciplinary coordination and learning, didactics, procedure workshops, and opportunities to personalize their training and support their autonomy through electives, inter-professional roles, and committee memberships.
- To grow and sustain faculty through development and mentoring.
- Research
- To support faculty, residents, and medical students in community-based and clinical research specifically designed to improve patient care, quality, and outcomes.
- To guide and support residents throughout the research process from inquiry to presentation.
- Graduates
- To produce internal medicine residency graduates with distinctive qualities and abilities that enable them to become community leaders, public servants, leaders in their medical fields in research and development, and ultimately instruments to invoke change and improvement in healthcare and society.
Inglewood, California – The Heart of Los Angeles
Situated in the heart of Los Angeles County, this city has a rich past that’s intricately woven into its streets and landmarks.
From the iconic view, The Forum, which has hosted legendary music events, to its diverse culinary scene reflecting the city’s multicultural tapestry, Inglewood provides an array of experiences for residents and visitors alike. The city boasts galleries, theaters, and cultural centers that celebrate creativity and innovation. The recently constructed SoFi Stadium, home to the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers, brings a new level of excitement to the area, drawing sports enthusiasts and entertainment seekers from far and wide.
Though Inglewood has no beaches of its own, it is only about four miles from the ocean, so Los Angeles’ Pacific Coast beaches are very nearby. The city sits just a short drive from the breathtaking cities of Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Culver City, and Long Beach. Each of which offers its own unique attractions and cultural experiences.
You can learn more about life in Inglewood by visiting https://www.cityofinglewood.org/.