OUR MISSION
To provide innovative, equitable, value-based patient-centered emergency medical care through exceptional leadership in medical education, research, and community collaboration.
Harbor UCLA Emergency Medicine prides itself in training excellent clinicians who progress to become leaders in the field of emergency medicine. We teach a rigorous, evidence-based approach to each patient interaction, and our residents learn to thrive in our challenging clinical environment with incredibly high acuity and wide breadth of pathology. Our graduates move on to chair departments, publish innovative research, and grow as nationally recognized leaders in their field, all while providing exceptional patient care.
As emergency providers in a safety-net county hospital, we are humbled to care for a diverse patient population. Our department seeks to provide exemplary care to every individual regardless of background or ability to pay. We recognize the tangible impact that social determinants of health have on health outcomes. Our institution is committed to actively combating structural racism and understanding socioeconomic privilege in our society. We seek to address these challenges with each and every patient encounter by providing culturally competent care. Our department fosters an environment of social activism, justice, and community engagement in order to support every aspect of our patients' wellbeing.
The Harbor-UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine enthusiastically recruits residents, fellows, and faculty who can utilize their unique backgrounds and perspectives to enhance the care of our patients. We commit to developing a workplace inclusive of every race, ethnicity, faith, gender identity, and sexual orientation. We take pride in that a majority of our leadership is comprised of women and persons of color. Our department celebrates diversity of all forms in its providers and strives to develop a medical workforce that reflects our patient population.
The Harbor UCLA Emergency Medicine Residency is a sizeable program with an intimate sense of community. The approachability of our leadership and deep bonds between residents foster a sense of family within our department. "Buddy groups" cultivate relationships between current residents, alumni, and faculty. Our on-site psychologist provides support through the inherent rigors of our specialty. Weekly resident/attending beach volleyball games, "board meetings" in the south bay swells, family playdates, and nights out in LA are just a few of the ways our program loves to spend time together.
Welcome to Harbor Emergency Medicine! Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is a Level 1 Trauma and Level 2 Pediatric Trauma Center, STEMI receiving center, paramedic base station, and a crucial safety net hospital in the South Bay of Los Angeles. Harbor’s Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) has approximately 90,000 annual patient visits from a largely underserved population. In addition to its essential role in patient care, Harbor-UCLA is a key teaching hospital for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and has a decades long history of advancing medical science and care delivery.