Urvi Gupta
PGY1
Urvi (She/Her/Hers) is originally from the Bay Area where she attended Stanford University for undergrad before moving down to sunny San Diego for medical school at UCSD. At Stanford, she majored in Human Biology with a concentration in Health Innovation and Behavioral Science. She went on to work at a health innovation lab called Medicine X for 2 years and remains very interested in the overlap between medicine, design, and quality improvement.
Urvi first learned about Med-Peds during her third-year clinical rotations and found that many of her favorite attendings and residents were Med-Peds trained. Med-Peds ended up being the perfect fit for Urvi as it allowed her to take care of sick patients across the age spectrum, and it would allow her to be a more competent doctor in all health care settings even if she ended up choosing either medicine or pediatrics (although she hopes to be able to take care of both populations)!
Urvi fell in love with UCLA’s program primarily because of the incredible Med-Peds community, strong training on both the medicine and pediatrics sides, and plethora of opportunities to work on quality improvement, education, and advocacy projects. It doesn’t hurt that LA has some of the best food in the country, and it’s sunny almost all year long!
Urvi isn’t quite sure what she wants to do in terms of career yet, but she knows UCLA will be the best place for her to figure it out! Outside of work, Urvi loves to go bakery hopping, explore new restaurants, read, spend hours scrolling on Facebook Marketplace, and play volleyball and tennis! Urvi’s favorite show of the recent few years has got to be Severance, and she is super excited about Season 2 coming out soon! But she loves watching any new murder mystery show (not true crime though) and is currently rewatching Modern Family with her partner!
Education:
Medical School – University of California, San Diego
Undergrad – Stanford University