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LGBTQ Career Development Position 2026-2027
University of California Los Angeles

Requisition Number: JPF10346

The Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Medicine-Pediatrics Section, Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA invites applications for a LGBTQ+ Healthcare Fellow position. This fellowship is designed 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.

This one-year fellowship beginning July 1, 2026 is a junior academic appointment as a Health Sciences Clinical Instructor 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 affiliated clinical sites, with some flexibility in tailoring the experiences to the learning environment and career goals of the fellow.

These experiences include:

  • Primary Care for MSM
  • Primary Care for WSW
  • Transgender Care and Hormone Management (Adults & Pediatrics)
  • Urology, Gynecology and Gender-affirming Surgery including preop/postop care
  • Hepatitis B & C
  • HIV Treatment and Management
  • High Resolution Anoscopy (HRA)
  • Substance Use and Addiction Medicine
  • Mental Health including LGBTQ+ Adolescents and Young Adults in Transition
  • Mental Health in PLWH
  • Behavioral health coursework and workshops spanning a variety of topics including
  • human sexuality, bisexual identity, affirmative psychotherapy, and LGBTQ+
  • domestic violence.
  • Asylum/Refugee LGBTQ+ Health
  • Rural LGBTQ+ Health

    Successful applicants are U.S. trained M.D.s and D.O.s with a strong interest in caring for LGBTQ+ communities and have completed or will be completing their residency training by June 30, 2026 in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, or Internal Medicine/Pediatrics combined specialties. Applicants should also have a passion for leadership, teaching, research, and a motivation to expand the current landscape of LGBTQ+ health.

    The shared values of the DGSOM are expressed in the Cultural North Star, which was developed by members of our community and affirms our unswerving commitment to doing what’s right, making things better, and being kind. These are the standards to which we hold ourselves, and one another. Please read more about this important DGSOM program at https://medschool.ucla.edu/cultural-north-star .

    All aspects of searches are confidential and all candidates are expected to review and abide by UC Regents Policy 1111 on Statement on Ethical Values and Standards of Conduct https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/policies/1111.html .

    To apply, please visit: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10346

    The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy, https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/DiscHarassAffirmAction

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