David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital Visiting Elective Scholarship Program
The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital are excited to announce a Visiting Elective Scholarship Program (VESP) that 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.
The UCLA Department of Pediatrics Visiting Elective Scholarship Program (VESP) 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. The goal of the program is to expose these traditionally underrepresented senior medical students from institutions outside of the Los Angeles region to an academic pediatrics program, and to promote student interest in applying to the Pediatrics Residency Training Program at UCLA.
The scholarship program will provide the following support to accepted senior medical students:
- Financial support for travel, housing and living expenses, up to $2,000 for each recipient.
- A faculty mentor will be assigned to each scholarship awardee, with the expectation that the mentor and awardee will meet at least once during the course of the elective period to discuss residency training and other career opportunities at UCLA.
- The program will host a networking event for scholarship recipients to meet residents and faculty from the UCLA Department of Pediatrics.
- Additional meetings with UCLA faculty will be arranged at the request of the student. For example, students interested in Ph.D. training may wish to meet with Division Chairs in relevant areas of research.
Interested mentors and students should visit the VESP webpage for more information and the application: https://www.uclahealth.org/mattel/visiting-elective-scholarship-program