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Former name | UCLA School of Medicine (1951–2002) |
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| Motto | Fiat lux |
Motto in English | Let there be light |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1951; 74 years ago (1951) |
Parent institution | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Dean | Steven M. Dubinett[1] |
| Location | ,, United States 34°03′58″N118°26′35″W / 34.0662°N 118.4431°W /34.0662; -118.4431 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | medschool |
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TheUCLA School of Medicine (also known as theDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA) is the accredited medical school of theUniversity of California, Los Angeles. Founded in 1951, it is the second medical school in theUniversity of California system after theUCSF School of Medicine.
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Dating back to its affiliation with theUniversity of California in 1873, theUCSF School of Medicine was the only public medical school inCalifornia. This made sense in the late 19th century when most of California's population lived inNorthern California andSouthern California was a lightly populated desert. It no longer made sense by the 1940s, afterLos Angeles had overtakenSan Francisco to become the leading metropolis on theWest Coast of the United States. Dr.Elmer Belt was instrumental in lobbying for the establishment of the School.[2]
The movement to start a medical school at UCLA began with ProvostClarence Addison Dykstra, who persuaded UC PresidentRobert Gordon Sproul to appoint a committee headed byVern Oliver Knudsen to study the issue.[3]
On October 18, 1945, the committee presented its findings to theRegents of the University of California.[3] At the time, there were only two medical schools in Southern California: the College of Medical Evangelists (now the School of Medicine ofLoma Linda University), which rarely admitted students who were not already members of theSeventh-day Adventist Church, andUSC Keck School of Medicine, which was admitting only about 70 students per year.[3] These two were plainly inadequate to satisfy the rapidly growing Southland's need for healthcare services, with the result that two-thirds of Los Angeles doctors had been educated at medical schools elsewhere.[3] After hearing the committee's findings, the Board of Regents immediately voted that same day to approve the creation of a medical school at UCLA.[3] GovernorEarl Warren signed Assembly Bill 35 into state law on February 19, 1946, which appropriated $7 million for the construction of a medical school building on the UCLA campus.[3]
In 1947,Stafford L. Warren was appointed as the first dean.[3] Warren had served on theManhattan Project while on leave from his post atUniversity of Rochester School of Medicine. His choice of core faculty consisted of his former associates atRochester in Andrew Dowdy as the first professor ofradiology, John Lawrence as the first professor ofmedicine, and Charles Carpenter as the first professor ofinfectious diseases. Along with William Longmire Jr., a 34-year-old surgeon fromJohns Hopkins School of Medicine, the group was called the Founding Five.
The building of the medical center and the School of Medicine began in 1949. The 1951 charter class consisted of 26 men and 2 women. Initially, there were 15 faculty members, although that number had increased to 43 by 1955 when the charter class graduated. The first classes were conducted in the reception lounge of the old Religious Conference Building on Le Conte Avenue. Clinical education was initially conducted on the wards of Harbor General Hospital, which today isHarbor–UCLA Medical Center.[4]
In July 1955, theUCLA Medical Center was opened.
Sherman Mellinkoff succeeded Stafford Warren as dean in 1962 and served for the next 24 years. Under Mellinkoff, theUCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, the UCLA Brain Research Institute, and theMarion Davies Children's Center were founded. TheJules Stein Eye Institute and the Reed Neurological Research Center were established. By decade's end, UCLA had doubled the size of the medical school and the hospital. TheUCLA School of Dentistry,School of Public Health, andSchool of Nursing were formed as well. The medical school grew to nearly 400 medical students, more than 700 interns and residents, and almost 200 master's and doctorate candidates.
A partnership was formed with theCharles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in 1966 to train medical students with the goal of meeting the needs of the underserved inSouth Los Angeles.
The school continued its growth in the 1970s, becoming affiliated withVA facilities as well asOlive View–UCLA Medical Center. In 1974, the school co-founded the Biomedical Sciences Program withUC Riverside, which offers 24 students each year the opportunity to earn both the B.S. and M.D. degrees in seven years instead of the traditional eight.
1981 saw the dedication of the Doris and Louis Factor Health Sciences Building which houses the School of Nursing and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. In 1987, construction began on UCLA Medical Plaza, an outpatient facility located across the street from the main hospital.
Kenneth I. Shine succeeded Sherman Mellinkoff as dean in 1986. In 1992 Shine left UCLA to become President of theInstitute of Medicine inWashington, D.C. Gerald S. Levey was then appointed provost of medical sciences and dean of the medical school in 1994. Levey oversaw expansion of interdisciplinary research and the establishment of a Department of Human Genetics. The Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center, as well as the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, were constructed. In October 2008, Levey announced that he would be stepping down from the position of Dean in 2009.[citation needed]
The UCLA School of Medicine was renamed "David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA" in 2002 in honor ofmedia mogulDavid Geffen, who donated $200 million in unrestricted funds.[5]
Effective February 2010, A. Eugene Washington was appointed Dean of the UCLA School of Medicine and Vice-Chancellor of Health Sciences at UCLA. Washington, a clinician, academician, researcher, and university administrator, was recruited fromUCSF, where he served as Vice-Chancellor and Provost, as well as Professor of gynecology, epidemiology, and health policy. Washington is the first African-American to hold these leadership posts at UCLA.[6]
UCLA constructed theRonald Reagan UCLA Medical Center across the street from the original facility to comply with the Californiaearthquake law. The 1,050,000-square-foot (98,000 m2) hospital is named after the latePresident of the United States andGovernor of California,Ronald Reagan. It was designed by architectI.M. Pei. Patients were transferred there from the existing hospital in June 2008.[citation needed]
In the rankings released for 2024,U.S. News & World Report ranked David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA as Tier 1 in the U.S. in research and ranked UCLA Medical Center at No. 5.[7]
Notable hospitals and Medical Centers affiliated with UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine are:[8]
The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA accepts applications for summer academic enrichment programs. These programs include the Premedical/Predental Enrichment Program (PREP), Summer Medical Dental Education Program (SMDEP), and the Re-Application Post baccalaureate Program (RAP). Application deadlines are March 1 for the PREP and SMDEP programs, while the RAP program has a deadline of May 15.[11]
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