Summer Emergency Medicine Fellowship for Underrepresented Minorities in Medicine
The UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine welcomes medical students interested in completing a six-week summer fellowship in our emergency department. This fellowship program is open to medical students who are underrepresented in medicine (URM) and have completed their first year of medical school.
The goal of this fellowship is to foster interest in the field of emergency medicine to URM students by providing individualized mentorship, hands-on clinical experience, and research and academic opportunities. Our aim is to recruit students from diverse backgrounds and to provide them with clinical and research experience that will help them develop into advocates for social change. This fellowship is a pathway program that is committed to increasing diversity in emergency medicine, helping create a workforce representative of the populations we serve, and improving the equitable care of historically underserved communities.
This fellowship is open to URM medical students enrolled in LCME-accredited institutions who self-identify as being from disadvantaged backgrounds, have completed their first year of medical school, and have an interest in emergency medicine. Attention will be placed on (but not limited to) the following: low socioeconomic status, distance traveled to a career in medicine, and other lived experiences valuable to improving the care of historically disadvantaged populations locally and nationally.
*Please note that our program's informational video is for introduction purposes only; specific dates and deadlines may not correspond to the actual timeline for your year's program. Please consult other sections of our website for current details.*