Prospective Trainees

Specialty Training and Advanced Research

The STAR Program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is a unique curriculum designed for optimal training of physician-scientists.
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By the Numbers

STAR Graduates’ Successes

Fellows/residents admitted to the STAR Program complete clinical training toward board certification in internal medicine, its subspecialties.
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Your Career Track

Career Tracks

The STAR Program begins with approximately 12-24 months of fellowship clinical training, followed by combined clinical and research training in one of four research career tracks. Learn More >

• UCLA’s Michael Grunstein wins 2018 Lasker Award for medical research

  09/11/2018

• Brains of people with schizophrenia are less reactive to social rewards like smiling faces, study shows

  09/10/2018

• When the theme is collaboration, labs get moving

  09/10/2018

• Brain’s support cells may play a central role in repetitive behaviors related to OCD

  09/07/2018

• Changes in the architecture around cancer cells can fuel their spread

  09/07/2018

• California’s large minority population drives state’s relatively low death rate, study finds

  09/06/2018

• Metabolism-focused startup aims to shorten time between scientific insight and therapies

  09/05/2018

• UCLA’s epilepsy center offers hope to people with drug-resistant seizures

  09/05/2018
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Quick Resources

• Learn more about how to apply to the STAR program
• STAR Leadership
• STAR Program FAQs

Partners

• California Institute of Technology
• Pardee RAND Graduate School

Why Choose UCLA STAR?

"As a philosophy, STAR encourages you to lead rather than to follow and that’s the path that most (STAR) awardees take. They choose to reach for the stars rather than sit back and admire them.”

- Tamer Sallam, MD PhD (STAR Program Assistant Director)