The objective of the UCLA LGBTQ Healthcare Fellowship is to train future primary care physicians to be sensitive, comfortable, clinically knowledgeable and culturally competent in delivering healthcare to sexual and gender minority patient populations.
UCLA Health is seeking one motivated individual for a 12-month fellowship (July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023) in both general primary care and LGBTQ subspecialty and specialty care. The fellow will have yearlong longitudinal clinical rotations in a variety of UCLA and affiliate clinical sites, with some flexibility in tailoring the experiences to the learning environment and career goals of the fellow.
The UCLA LGBTQ Fellowship curriculum consists of three general core educational themes or domains:
Within a variety of clinical and non-clinical experiences that include:
Family Health Center
Gender Health Program
UCLA Primary Care Santa Monica
UCLA CARE Center
UCLA Urology
Northeast Valley Health Corporation
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Antioch University
West Los Angeles VA Medical Center
The program also offers biweekly didactics given by our core faculty that will span a variety of healthcare and health policy topics affecting LGBTQ communities.
This is a career-development position with a junior academic appointment as a Clinical Instructor with the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. The fellowship is designed to train physicians to become outstanding academic leaders, clinicians, and teachers within the new field of LGBTQ medicine. In as such, the fellow will also have the opportunity to further enhance his/her/their leadership and teaching skills by working directly with medical students and/or residents. Based on the fellow's interests and under the guidance of core faculty, the fellow will also design and create a community outreach project tailored to improving the lives and health of the LGBTQ community. In addition, the fellowship will include a research or quality-improvement component with a trajectory toward dissemination.
This is a non-ACGME fellowship and the compensation includes a very competitive salary, a staff benefits package, an education enrichment fund for conferences including hotel, flight and travel, 24 paid vacation days and 14 university holidays. In addition, the Department of Medicine will pay for the fellow's optional HIV credentialing (AAHIVS certification) for up to six months after graduation of the program.
Successful applicants are physician MDs and DOs with a strong interest in caring for LGBTQ communities and have completed or will be completing their U.S. residency program by June 30, 2022 in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, or Internal Medicine/Pediatrics combined specialties. Currently, we are not offering rotational or shadowing experiences and are not accepting applications from OBGYN, psychiatric, or surgical specialties at this time. Applicants to the LGBTQ fellowship program should have a passion for leadership, teaching, research, and a motivation to expand the current field of LGBTQ health.
UCLA LGBT Fellowship Form:
Due Date: 10/31/2021.
Interviews will be conducted in October and/or November, with final decision notifications no later than mid-December 2021.
Contact the LGBTQ fellowship program directors:
George C. Yen, MD AAHIVS
Assistant Clinical Professor
Jodi Friedman, MD
Clinical Professor
