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Important dates and student events.

Find academic calendars, detailed schedules, and student organization-sponsored events designed to set you up for success at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

2025 - 2026 Academic Year

Academic Calendars

Fall Semester, 2025

  • Base Camp: Monday, August 11 – Friday, August 29, 2025
  • Foundations of Medical Science I: Monday, September 1 – Friday, November 21, 2025 
  • Break: Monday, November 24 – Friday, November 28, 2025
  • Foundations of Medical Science I Continues: Monday, December 1 – Friday, December 19, 2025
  • Break (two weeks): Monday, December 23, 2025– Friday, January 2, 2026

Spring Semester 2026

  • Foundations of Medical Science II: Monday, January 5 – Friday, March 27, 2026 
  • Break (one week): Monday, March 30 - Friday, April 3, 2026

  • Foundations of Medical Science II (cont.): Monday, April 6 – Friday, June 12, 2026  

    *Please note FOMS continues into Summer and Fall 2026 as part of the 2026-2027 academic year

Fall Semester, 2025  

  • Foundations of Medical Science IV: Monday, August 18 - Friday, September 12, 2025
  • Foundations of Medical Science Wrap Up: Monday, September 15 - Friday, September 19, 2025
  • Intersession I (2 weeks): Monday, September 22 - Friday, October 3, 2025
  • Required Rotations Begin (10 weeks): Monday, October 6 - Friday, December 12, 2025
  • Intersession II (1 week): Monday, December 15 - Friday, December 19, 2025
  • Break (2 weeks): Monday, December 22, 2025 - Friday, January 2, 2026

Spring Semester, 2026

  • Required Rotations Continue (8 weeks): Monday, January 5 - Friday, February 27, 2026
  • Intersession III (1 week): Monday, March 2 - Friday, March 6, 2026
  • Required Rotations Continue (8 weeks): Monday, March 9 - Friday, May 1, 2026 
  • Break (1 week): Monday, May 4 - Friday, May 8, 2026
  • Intersession IV (1 week): Monday, May 11 - Friday, May 15, 2026 

  • Required Rotations Continue (4 weeks): Monday, May 18 - Friday, June 12, 2026

    *Please note core clerkships continue into Summer and Fall 2026 as part of the 2026-2027 academic year

Fall Semester, 2025

  • Required Rotations Continue (4 weeks):  Monday, August 18 - Friday, September 12, 2025
  • UCLA Masters Programs Begin : (various start dates)
  • USMLE Prep (6 weeks): Monday, September 15 - Friday, October 24, 2025
  • Break (1 week): Monday, October 27 - Friday, October 31, 2025
  • Discovery Prep (1 week): Monday, November 3 - Friday, November 7, 2025
  • Discovery & Longitudinal Clinical Experience Begin (6 weeks): Monday, November 10 - Friday December 19, 2025
  • Break (2 weeks): Monday, December 22, 2025 - Friday, January 2, 2026

Spring Semester, 2026

  • Discovery & Longitudinal Clinical Experience Continue (23 weeks): Monday, January 5 – Friday, May 22, 2026 

  • USMLE Prep (3 weeks): Monday, May 25 – Friday, June 12, 2026  

    * Elective rotations start in Summer 2026 as part of the 2026-2027 academic year

Fall Semester, 2025

  • Electives Rotations Continue (18 weeks.): Monday, August 18 – Friday, December 19, 2025
  • Break (2 weeks): Monday, December 22, 2025 - Friday, January 2, 2026

Spring Semester, 2026

  • Elective Rotations Continue (9 weeks): Monday, January 5 – Friday, March 6, 2026 
  • Capstone (2 weeks): Monday, March 9 - Friday, March 20, 2026
  • Elective Rotations Continue (12 weeks): Monday, March 23 – Friday, June 12, 2026
  • Commencement Ceremony: TBD
  • Semester Ends/Diploma Date: Friday, June 12, 2026

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