MD Students
Your DGSOM, Your Community
At the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, national and regional organizations bring together medical students, residents, faculty, and mentors to advocate for improved awareness, health access, and research for many causes and foundations.
JEDI-Affiliated Communities
- Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association
- American Medical Women's Association
- Arab Health Organization
- Association of Native American Medical Students
- Black Men in White Coats
- Chinese Medical Interest Group
- Christian Medical Student Association
- Disability and Chronic Illness Student Group
- First Gen at DGSOM
- Jewish Medical Student Association
Community of Mentorship
First Gen at DGSOM
Students who identify as "First Gen" can connect with other DGSOM students, residents, fellows, faculty, and alumni who are proudly first gen themselves.
Find A Mentor
Learn of future networking opportunities and help build our database of potential mentor/mentee connections by completing the survey below.
Student Leadership
JEDI Class Representatives
Each DGSOM class has three Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Class Representatives who collect data on their classes’ well-being, culture, and learning environment. Our amazing representatives meet monthly with the JEDI Assistant Deans who help address many issues and get advice from their peers.
- Baba Adejuyigbe
- Colin Wang
- Samuel Hulbert
- Bryan Sanchez
- Elizza Villarruel
- Micheal Freddy
- Keytiana Hempstead
- Nadir Noor Adra
- Reeta Asmai
Coming Fall 2023
Resources
Event Sponsorship
Funding is available to registered DGSOM student organizations for events focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion. Complete the funding request three weeks before your anticipated event.
JEDI/ARR Student Conference Funding Request
Who may submit funding request: Students of all years who have had an abstract and/or paper related to equity, diversity and inclusion or anti-racism efforts in the medical education space that has been accepted by a national or regional conference for a workshop, poster or oral presentation.
The Center for Accessible Education will work closely with you to identify reasonable accommodations for your time as a DGSOM student.
Contact Information
Grace Clifford, Director of Disability Services for DGSOM
- Call or text: (424) 402-9864
- Email: GClifford@mednet.ucla.edu
- Schedule an Appointment
Committee on Learning Environment Oversight (CLEO)
The Committee on Learning Environment Oversight (CLEO) is responsible for the review of student concerns regarding the learning environment and the development of action plans in response to episodes of alleged medical student mistreatment to prevent future occurrences.