Research Day

Annual UCLA-Affiliated Multi-Campus Family Medicine Research Day

This annual event is designed to promote research on important issues related to improving care provided to patients in family medicine and primary care settings. The Multi-Campus Research Forum (affectionately referred to as "Research Day") facilitates the exchange of scholarly activities and highlights the creative work conducted by residents, fellows, faculty, staff, and medical students from UCLA-Affiliated Family Medicine Residency programs. Funding for this event is provided by all participanting campuses and the HRSA-funded UCLA DGSOM Center of Excellence (UCLA COE). Please note: due to funding and space restrictions, only UCLA-Affiliated Family Medicine programs can participate in this event.

2026 Meeting Information

Next year's Research Day event is scheduled to take place in-person on Wednesday, May 27, 2026 at the California Endowment (Center for Healthy Communities Los Angeles): 1000 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012(Link is external) (Link opens in new window). There will also be a morning Faculty Development Session, by invitation only.

Abstract Submission

Abstracts (or Case Reports) are now being accepted for Research Day 2026. Please review the Submission Guidelines before proceeding. Abstracts are due by 11:59pm on April 19, 2026 and must be submitted via the Submission Portal. We recommend that you review the guidelines first, and create a draft of your abstract/case report in a word processing document to make use of the character-count feature. Then you can easily copy-and-paste into the online submission portal when you are ready to submit. Please be sure to coordinate with your institution prior to submission to ensure compliance with their submission policies (note: some institutions/departments prefer that you submit your abstracts/reports to them for review prior to submission).

If your submission is a team project, please choose a designated Contact Author to submit via the Submission Portal. The Contact Author will be responsible for sharing with the rest of their team any correspondence or information from the Research Day Committee as a response to your submission.

Please note: We do not accept submissions from non-UCLA affiliated programs. If selected for inclusion, abstracts/case reports must be presented by a resident, fellow, medical student, research staff member, or faculty member from a UCLA-affiliated program. Although you may have an author on your team who does not fit this criteria, the presenting author must fit this criteria.