Career Pathways

Career Planning

The faculty of the UC San Diego Department of Medicine is comprised of talented clinicians, nationally recognized scientists, and skillful teachers who are easily accessible to residents seeking guidance in career planning. We take great pride in our graduating residents and are strongly committed to launching them into highly successful internal medicine careers. We offer annual career planning seminars to equip residents with the tools they need to obtain the jobs or fellowships they seek.

Graduates' Career Paths

Graduates of the UC San Diego Internal Medicine Training Program are highly trained internists with skills and capabilities well suited to a variety of career paths, ranging from fellowships to primary care medicine, hospital medicine or global health. Approximately 65% of the graduating housestaff seek subspecialty training. The majority of our residents obtain their top choices for fellowship training at prestigious programs around the country, and many choose to stay at UC San Diego.

Many of our graduates choose to remain in Southern California and have matched very well despite the competitiveness of academic fellowship programs in this area. For those graduates wishing to remain in general internal medicine practice, the growing San Diego community offers many excellent practice opportunities. The career paths of our graduates over the past few years are summarized below.

Fellowship	Location
Allergy & Immunology	Kaiser Los Angeles Mount Sinai (New York) National Jewish (Denver) Scripps Health UC Irvine UC San Diego University of Southern California Vanderbilt
Cardiology	Baylor College of Medicine Brigham & Women’s Hospital Cedars-Sinai Harbor-UC Los Angeles Houston Methodist Kaiser Los Angeles Kaiser San Francisco Massachusetts General Hospital Montefiore (New York) Oregon Health Sciences University UC Davis UC Irvine UC Los Angeles UC San Diego UC San Francisco University of Colorado University of Utah
Endocrinology	Stanford UC Los Angeles UC San Diego University of Southern California University of Washington UT Southwestern
Gastroenterology	Baylor College of Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Mayo Clinic (Arizona) Temple UC Irvine UC San Diego UC San Francisco University of Colorado University of Southern California UT Southwestern
Geriatrics	Stanford UC San Diego
Global Health	UC San Francisco
Hematology/Oncology	MD Anderson Scripps Health Temple Tufts UC Los Angeles UC San Diego University of Washington Vanderbilt Washington University
Hospital Medicine	Cedars-Sinai Cornell Harbor-UC Los Angeles Kaiser San Diego Oregon Health Sciences University Scripps San Diego Sharp San Diego UC Irvine UC Los Angeles UC San Diego UC San Francisco University of Southern California VA Palo Alto VA San Diego
Infectious Diseases	CDC (Epidemic Intelligence Service) National Institutes of Health Stanford UC San Diego University of Colorado
Nephrology	Oregon Health Sciences University Stanford UC San Diego UC San Francisco University of Washington
Palliative Care	Mount Sinai (New York) UC San Diego / Scripps University of Utah UT Southwestern
Primary Care	Family Health Centers of San Diego Guam Kaiser San Diego San Francisco Bay Area Scripps San Diego Sharp San Diego UC San Diego UT Southwestern
Pulmonary & Critical Care	Cedars-Sinai Stanford UC Los Angeles UC San Diego UC San Francisco University of Michigan UT Southwestern
Rheumatology	UC Los Angeles UC San Diego UC San Francisco University of Washington
Sleep Medicine	Stanford
Sports Medicine	Vanderbilt
Survivorship	Memorial Sloan Kettering

Fellowship Opportunities

The Department of Medicine at UC San Diego offers ACGME-accredited fellowship training in 14 internal medicine subspecialties. Here, our fellows find the mentors, abundant opportunities, and collegial relationships that establish the foundation for distinguished careers in internal medicine.

For information regarding fellowship opportunities, please address your inquiries to the appropriate division head or fellowship director at the following address:

(Division Contact Name)
UC San Diego Medical Center
200 West Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103-(Mail Code)

Division	Program Director	Program Coordinator	Mail Code
Allergy & Immunology	Marc Riedl, MD	Amanda Williamson	0656
Advanced Heart Failure	Eric Adler, MD	Margo Relaford	7411
Cardiovascular Medicine	Daniel Blanchard, MD	Margo Relaford	7411
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	Gregory K. Feld, MD	Gini Roberts	7411
Interventional Cardiology	Ehtisham Mahmud, MD	Margo Relaford	7411
Endocrinology & Metabolism	Trica Santos Cavaiola, MD	Amanda Williamson	0618
Gastroenterology	Denise Kalmaz, MD	Roslyn Lara	0956
Transplant Hepatology	Denise Kalmaz, MD	Roslyn Lara	0956
Geriatric Medicine	Roopali Gupta, MD	Jennifer Reichstadt	8415
Hematology & Oncology	Luda Bazhenova, MD	Eric Lin	0829
Infectious Diseases	Constance Benson, MD	Meredith Lococo	0711
Nephrology & Hypertension	Cynthia Miracle, MD	Raeann Miller	8409
Physician-Scientist Training Pathway	Renate Pilz, MD	Anne Bamrick-Rosenblatt	8425
Pulmonary & Critical Care	Dan Crouch, MD	Judy Davis	7381
Rheumatology	Arnold Ceponis, MD	Amanda Williamson	0656

Primary Care Opportunities

Primary Care experiences are available to residents at several locations throughout San Diego: UC San Diego Internal Medicine Group, VA San Diego Health Care, Scripps HealthCare, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, Family Health Centers of San Diego, and private-practice primary care settings.

The program also offers the Primary Care Pathway, where residents spend three, 2-week rotations on this block annually. Each block consists of a mix of continuity clinics, subspecialty clinics, a primary care academic half-day, and unique clinical and educational opportunities.