Program Rationale

In California, Hispanics represent 32% of the population yet only 4% of the physician workforce. Further, almost 35% of California's Hispanics reside in medically underserved areas (MUAs) compared to 20% of the total population. To supplement the outreach and pipeline efforts by UCLA and the other California medical schools to train more Hispanic and English/Spanish bilingual physicians, the UCLA Department of Family Medicine (DFM) developed an innovative program to address the state's changing demographics and impending physician shortage. [learn more]