Graduate Medical Education

About the Graduate Medical Education Program 

CDU’s residencies and fellowships offer a varied array of medical education opportunities. Our aim is to provide state-of-the-art clinical settings within a structured clinical learning environment that promotes both patient health and safety and acquisition of progressive resident/fellow competencies resulting in proficient specialists who can enter autonomous independent practice on graduation. Under the guidance of committed professionals, our programs focus on ensuring a workforce inspired by compassion, ethics, culturally sensitive and safe patient care. Our postgraduate physician learners develop and use evidence-based medical knowledge, scholarly productivity and research, cultural humility, and deliberate practice of clinical skills to care for patients that enables our graduates to provide patient and family centered holistic and comprehensive high-quality care.  

Addiction Medicine
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Family Medicine
Internal Medicine
General Psychiatry
PM&R

At a Glance

  • Multiple Training Sites 
  • Community-Focused
  • Foward-Focused patient care 
  • Public Health

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Program Start Dates

ACGME accredited Residency training Programs’ academic year starts on July 1st of each year.

All applications submitted through the Electronic Residency Application System (ERAS). The interview process runs from October to January. The residency match results are revealed in mid-March.

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Why CDU Graduate Medical Education? 

Charles R. Drew University, College of Medicine’s residency and fellowship programs take advantage of the unique and distinctive characteristics of the South Los Angeles County communities, providing a wealth of learning opportunities. We provide for the health needs of homeless youth, adults, and families; focus on patient-centered team-based healthcare of under-resourced patients; research and apply the notion of community violence as a public health problem; aim for the elimination of social health and illness disparities; and advocate for the democratization of healthcare for special needs, incarcerated and immigrant populations. Residents trained in these areas develop the aptitudes to master the clinical skills necessary for board certification and to practice healthcare delivery anywhere of their choosing.  

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Clinical Experiences

Residents in our programs complete clinical experiences in a variety of settings, including:  

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Outpatient Center, Ambulatory Surgical Center 
  • VA Long Beach Health Center-Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center 
  • Department of Mental Health (DMH), Los Angeles County (LAC) 
  • LAC-Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center 
  • Children’s Hospital Los Angeles 
  • Watts Health Center  
  • Kedren Community Health Center  
Our residents rotate in various health care settings that enable them to learn from a rich and diverse patient population and to be nurtured in an equitable, fair, inclusive, and supportive learning environment.”
Dotun Ogunyemi
Dotun Ogunyemi, MD, FACOG, MFM , Designated Institution Official Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education

Leadership Team

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Dotun Ogunyemi, MD, FACOG, MFM
Associate Dean
College of Medicine
Joe-Becker
Joseph G. Becker, MFA
Institutional Coordinator
College of Medicine
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Kristi A. Mitchell
Records & Billing Spec
College of Medicine

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Accreditation

The Charles R. Drew University College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).