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Desert Regional Medical Center Family Medicine

Residency · Palm Springs, CA

Sponsored by Desert Regional Medical Center · Director Sam Lin

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Class size
8
Visas
None
PGY-1 salary
$73k2025 to 2026

Red flags

  • Seats left open in the Match. In 1 of the last 5 Matches, too few applicants ranked it to fill its seats.
  • No visa sponsorship. Only applicants who need no visa can train here.
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Getting in

The Match, seats filled

202210/10
202310/10
202412/12
20258/8
20260/8

Who started, by class

Started 20267 on record of 8 seats · 1 US MD · 1 published before starting
  • Nina ByskoshFeinberg School of Medicine3 papers · 1 first author
  • Chris Min
  • Kate Soriano
  • Syed Qasim
  • Tatiana Gomez
  • Tina Emami
  • Yuvitza Lopez
Started 20256 on record of 8 seats · 1 DO · 3 published before starting
  • Sara Aghabaklou3 papers · 1 review
  • Laura Bou-Malham2 papers
  • Rohini Gurumoorthy1 paper · 1 case report
  • Chu Liu
  • Sabrina Alvarez-Hernandez
  • Starla Lyles-McKelvyHeritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
Started 202412 on record of 12 seats · 3 published before starting
  • Alec BreazealeOHSU2 papers
  • Demetrios Vorgias1 paper
  • Tatevik Takhmazyan1 paper · 1 review
  • Anahita Ghorbani
  • Danielle Anciro
  • Fouzhan Pejmanian
  • Le-Anne Montejo
  • Nandini Vadlamani
  • Philip Campos
  • Robert Beben
  • Roghin Ibrahim
  • Shwe Win

Training

2 training sites. Graduates on record most often went on to hospice and palliative medicine.

Months at each site

  • Desert Regional Medical Center34 mo
  • Palm Springs Community Health Center – RUHS2 mo

Where graduates went next

  • Hospice And Palliative Medicine Fellowship3
  • Critical Care Medicine Fellowship1
  • Internal Medicine Residency1
  • Psychiatry Residency1
  • Sports Medicine Fellowship1

Where graduates work now

  • Kaiser Permanente Southern California4
  • Riverside University Health System: Main Campus3
  • UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine2
  • AHMC Garfield Medical Center1
  • Baptist Health1
  • Desert Physicians Medical Group Health1

Research

24% of current residents have a paper since 2023

9 of 38, 16 papers between them

  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts

People

Leadership

  • Sam LinProgram Director

Find someone

Faculty, residents, graduates and the people residents publish with.

Place

Summers reach 86°, winters fall to 30°. About 33 inches of snow a year.

Weather by month

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Commute

137k people live within 20 minutes of Desert Regional Medical Center by car with no traffic.

Cost of living

A one bedroom rents for about $1,730 a month within 10 miles of Desert Regional Medical Center.

Hazards

  • Wildfire
  • River flooding
  • Earthquakes
  • LNDS