Family Medicine

Community Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship

Community Medicine Fellowship

One year community medicine/faculty development fellowship with PGY4 salary and benefits.

The Department of Family Medicine has a deep commitment to providing high quality care to under-resourced communities through our unique partnership with the Los Angeles County Health Agency, Venice Family Clinic, and the Student Run Homeless Clinics. As a department, we seek progress in justice, equity, diversity and inclusion, and we pledge to continue our path towards health equity for all, which is part of our social contract and mission as a department of family medicine. 

Fellowships Highlights

  • Care for underserved patients in safety-net settings
  • Teach UCLA family medicine residents, UCLA medical students, and pre-health students
  • Design, implement and evaluate a community health program or needs assessment 
  • Develop community partnerships to improve health and health care for marginalized populations 

Skills and Competencies 

  • Social Drivers of Health
  • Safety-Net Healthcare Delivery 
  • Community-Based Partnered and Participatory Research 
  • Health Disparities and Health Equity
  • Health Policy & Community Advocacy 
  • Culturally and Linguistically Competent Care
  • Health Services Research and Community Program and Evaluation Methods

Accepting applications now. Click here to apply!

Clinical Highlights

  • Four half-days a week caring for continuity family practice patients (including street medicine or unhoused persons).
  • Optional inpatient attending teaching (with faculty mentor). 

Teaching Highlights

  • One half-day a week supervising resident physicians in a family practice.
  • Participate in fellowship seminars one to two hours a week.
  • Work with medical students in the clinic and community settings
  • Optional auditing of courses
  • Faculty development training 

Research and Scholarship Highlights

  • Faculty mentor and mentorship committee
  • Participate in seminars covering foundational program evaluation and research skills, grant writing and project management
  • Design and implement a mentored scholarly community project
  • Present community-based/partnered research project at annual research day

UCLA Faculty 

Gerardo Moreno MD, MS

Mary Marfisee MD

Philip Brown MD

Denise Sur MD

Steven Shoptaw PhD

Community Medicine Fellow 2024-2025

 

Maven Happawana, MD