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The UCLA campus is perpetually in motion. Our students start and join more than 800 clubs, kick start businesses, run organizations and are deeply involved with the community.

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Some students enter medical school knowing which specialty they want to pursue. Others figure it out along the way. 

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Nava Yeganeh, MD, MPH, hadn't always planned to create an international travel clinic at UCLA, but it turned out the need was too strong to ignore.

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Students new to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, or those visiting the school, have many sites to see in Los Angeles while they're here.

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Medical students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA are not at a shortage for free things to do in the Los Angeles area.

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The Hollywood Bowl has been a fixture on the Los Angeles live entertainment scene since 1916. That first performance was an outdoor community-theater production of "Julius Caesar."

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UCLA events: Annual Grad Games offer competition and camaraderie

The only thing more fun than winning the three-legged race or tug of war was spending the whole day playing outside with your classmates. Students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA get to relive the glory days of their youth, just with grown-up games.


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