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 >

• A missing gene makes a big difference in patients’ recovery from mild stroke

  02/21/2019

• Scientists discover new type of immune cells that are essential for forming heart valves

  02/21/2019

• UCLA’s Johnese Spisso named one of top women leaders by Modern Healthcare magazine

  02/20/2019

• Low-income undocumented adults are largely locked out of health care in California, study finds

  02/19/2019

• UCLA faculty voice: Adolescents have a fundamental need to contribute

  02/19/2019

• Sexually transmitted infections are on the rise. Here’s what you need to know to protect yourself

  02/14/2019

• Electrical activity early in fruit flies’ brain development could shed light on how neurons wire the brain

  02/12/2019

• For recurrent glioblastoma, immunotherapy before surgery appears to help more than afterward

  02/11/2019
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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)