Pediatric Medical Students

Medical Students - UCLA Pediatrics

3rd year Medical Students - Clerkship Information

The Department of Pediatrics at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA offers a six-week clinical clerkship at the following sites:

• UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital/Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center/Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Harbor - UCLA Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente Sunset Medical Center

For detailed information about the clerkship, please access the Medical School website at: http://medschool.ucla.edu/current-clinical-curriculum

Visiting Elective Scholarship Program

We are pleased to offer the Visiting Elective Scholarship Program (VESP), which provides financial support to senior U.S. medical students who are traditionally underrepresented in medicine, and who are interested in applying to UCLA for a senior clinical elective.

4th year Medical Students - Elective Information

The Department of Pediatrics at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA offers a wide variety of senior medical students electives in Pediatrics.

Electives are 3 weeks long each and are offered both in Westwood and at UCLA's affiliated campuses and ambulatory sites, as follows:

UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital

• Adolescent Medicine
• Allergy-Immunology
• Ambulatory Pediatrics
• Medical Genetics
• Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
• Pediatric Cardiology
• Pediatric Chronic Pain and Palliative Care
• Pediatric Critical Care Subinternship
• Pediatric Endocrinology
• Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
• Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
• Pediatric Infectious Diseases
• Pediatric Nephrology
• Pediatric Neurology
• Pediatric Public Health
• Pediatric Radiology
• Pediatric Rheumatology

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

• Medical Genetics
• Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
• Pediatric Cardiology
• Pediatric Critical Care
• Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism
• Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
• Pediatric Infectious Diseases
• Pediatric Neurology
• Pediatric Ward Subinternship

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
• Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
• Pediatric Infectious Diseases
• Pediatric Nephrology
• Pediatric Ward Subinternship

Kaiser Permanente Sunset Medical Center

• Ambulatory Pediatrics
• Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
• Pediatric Critical Care
• Pediatric Ward Subinternship

Other

• Ambulatory Medicine-Pediatrics (UCLA Brentwood Med-Peds)
• Young Adult Medicine (UCLA Ashe Center)

For detailed information about the above electives, please access the Medical School website at: http://medschool.ucla.edu/current-visiting-students.

This site contains all course descriptions (Pediatrics - PE199.01-PE298.1 and Pediatrics - PE305.01-PE485.06) and application instructions.

We require that students complete and pass all core clerkships to be eligible to apply for senior electives.

Contact:

Carol Nguyen, Medical Student Coordinator
cknguyen@mednet.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-9128