Patient Exeperience

We have 3 adult rheumatology continuity clinics each week for our fellows. In addition, we have a weekly musculoskeletal injection procedure clinic with 20-30 procedures each, and a weekly dermatology / rheumatology clinic staffed by an attending dermatologist and rheumatologist. Lastly, we have an on-site pediatric rheumatology clinic that occurs twice monthly, providing our fellows extensive exposure managing this population.

Fellows will be working alongside residents from the internal medicine program, medical students rotating from UCLA, and two nurse practitioners. Attending staffing is approximately 1 attending to 2-3 housestaff, allowing ample opportunity for bedside teaching.

The inpatient consult service rounding occurs in the afternoon following clinics with one of the faculty rheumatologists. This allows for real-time procedures, management decisions, and bedside teaching to occur.

Additional education comes from close co-management with neighboring clinics including orthopedics, podiatry, ophthalmology, and dermatology. Finally, an on-site infusion center provides our fellows with experience in managing a variety of different complications that can occur during biologic infusions.

“I really loved my time as a Rheumatology fellow at Olive View UCLA. The program has a very rigorous out-patient training, with tons of bread and butter patients, as well as the more intellectually challenging case, that more than prepared me for my current job at Kaiser. Also, the variety and severity of the pathology I saw in the in-patient setting is likely very hard to replicate in other non-county settings.”

Richard Lau, MD
Rheumatologist, Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara