Graduate Career Paths

Summary | Our Graduates' Career Paths by Year

Since the inception of the Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program at UC San Diego in 1994, we have enjoyed seeing the success of our graduates in a variety of fields. We also boast a first-time 96% board pass rate on the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) exam and 98% pass rate on the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) exam over the past 12 years. This exceeds the national ABIM board pass rate of 91% and the national ABP pas International Rotation - Kenya s rate of 91%.

Like most graduates trained in both internal medicine and pediatrics, you will have a wide range of opportunities available to you once you have completed training at UC San Diego.

Manyof our graduates go on to primary care practices doing both medicine and pediatrics in both outpatient and hospitalist settings. A large number choose practices in underserved areas. We also have many graduates who have applied to fellowship, and have matched all into competitive programs, as well as many graduates pursuing combined hospital medicine. Still other graduates have gone on to work for the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, the Indian Health Services, pursused global health careers, or have continued in academic medicine.

Career Paths - Summary

Our alumni have taken a variety of different career paths. Below is a summary of the types of career paths our graduates have chosen since completing their training at UC San Diego:

66% practice in the primary care setting, involving internal medicine and pediatrics
26% hold hospital-based positions
13% hold volunteer faculty academic appointments. (This is in addition to the 24% in academic-based practices listed above.)
7% pursue careers at the Centers for Disease Control, or a career in international health
28% pursue subspecialty/fellowship training in a wide range of fellowships (see below for details!) at competitive programs
46% remain in San Diego after graduation

Please see the list below to learn more about what our graduates do upon completing residency. The list includes the graduates from the UC San Diego Combined Med/Peds Program since the beginning of our program in 1994!

Click on the year of graduation to see a list of individual profiles for that graduating class. If you wish to contact any particular alumnus, please e-mail our program coordinator, Heejin Kim, at heejinkim@ucsd.edu and we will provide you with their contact information, if available.

Graduates' Career Paths by Year

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Years

2019

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: Pritzker School of Medicine at University of Chicago

Career Following Residency: Medicine Hospitalist and Pediatric Urgent Care

Grant Meyer, MD

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California

Career Following Residency: Combined Med/Peds Primary Care

Patrick Passerelli

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: University of Nebraska College of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Pediatric Chief Resident 2019-2010

Hannah Wangberg, MD

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: University of Minnesota Medical School

Career Following Residency: Allergy and Immunology Fellowship, Scripps Healthcare San Diego

2018

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: Ohio State University College of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Combined Med Peds Primary Care

Isabella Niu, MD

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Chief Pediatric Resident 2018-2019, followed by combined Med/Peds Endocrine fellowship at UC San Francisco

Stephanie Guerreri, MD

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY

Career Following Residency: NICU Hospitalist at UC San Diego and Med/Peds Urgent Care

Evan Taylor, MD

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: University of Colorado School of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Global Health Fellowship, UC San Francisco

2017

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics

Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Palliative Care Fellowship at UT Southwestern, Dallas Texas

Mazen Odish, MD

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: University of Arizona College of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Adult Critical Care and Pulmonary Fellowship, UC San Diego

Caitlin Dockweiler, MD

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Palliative Care Fellowship at UC San Diego

Meghan Garcia, MD

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Allergy and Immunology Fellowship at National Jewish Medical Center, Denver, CO

2016

Nicole Ayson, MD

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics

Medical School: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Career Following Residency: Combined Med/Peds Primary Care

Constance Chace, MD

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: University of Massachusetts School of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Chief Medical Resident, Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego; Academic Internal Medicine Hospitalist UC San Diego

Mai Duong, MD.

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Combined Med/Peds Primary Care Practice in underserved community clinic, San Diego, California

Christine Rukasin, MD

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: Creighton University School of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Chief Medical Resident, Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego; Allergy and Immunology Fellowship, Vanderbilty University, Nashville, TN

2015

Lawrence Ma, MD

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics

Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Geriatrics Fellowship at Stanford University

Diana J. Moke, MD

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Career Following Residency: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Perrie E. Pardee, MD

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Combined Med/Peds Hospitalist and Associate Program Director, UC San Diego Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program

Vanessa N. Raabe, MD

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: University of Minnesota Medical School

Graduate School: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, M. Sc. in Control of Infectious Diseases

Career Following Residency: Medicine/Pediatrics Infectious Disease Fellowship at Emory University

2014

John Adams, M.D.

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics

Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Underserved Medicine Fellowship - UC San Diego

Shirin Alonzo, M.D., M.P.H

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Neurodevelopmental Fellowship – Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego

Nicole Bendin, M.D.

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Hospitalist - Chicago, IL

Patrick LaRochelle, M.D.

Residency: UC San Diego Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program

Medical School: University of Virginia School of Medicine

Career Following Residency: Samaritan’s Purse – fieldwork in Democratic Republic of Congo