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.
OIE-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
- CaribMed
- Chinese Medical Interest Group
- Christian Medical Student Association
- Disability and Chronic Illness Student Group
- First Gen at DGSOM
- Jewish Medical Student Association
- La Cosecha
- Latino Medical Student Association
- Latinos in Surgery
- Muslim Student Association
- Medical Spanish & Language Justice
- Persian Medical Society
- PRIDE Alliance
- South Asian Medically-oriented Student Association (SAMoSA)
- Student National Medical Association
- UndocuMed Students and Allies
- Women in Surgery Interest Group
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.
MHO - Minority Housestaff Organization
The UCLA Minority Housestaff Organization is a housestaff-driven organization dedicated to the mission of excellence through diversity.
Inclusive Excellence Class Representatives
Each DGSOM class has three Class Representatives who collect data on their classes’ well-being, culture, and learning environment. Our amazing representatives meet monthly with the Inclusive Excellence Assistant Deans who help address many issues and get advice from their peers.
Resources
Event Sponsorship
Funding is available to registered DGSOM student organizations for events focused on inclusive excellence. Complete the funding request three weeks before your anticipated event.
Inclusive Excellence/ARR Student Conference Funding Request
Who may submit funding request: Students of all years who have had an abstract and/or paper related to inclusive excellence 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.
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