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Clinical Positions in Hospital Medicine 2025-2026

Clinical Positions in Hospital Medicine 2025-2026

University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA • On-site

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Key responsibilities

  • Provide traditional inpatient internal medicine coverage, including direct patient care, occasionally in collaboration with advanced practice providers.

  • Participate in clinical teaching of medical students and/or residents.

  • Cover admission shifts, internal medicine consultation services, preoperative clinics, and night shifts.

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Company rating: 8.0 out of 10

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Job description

Position description
UCLA Hospital Medicine has openings for full-time faculty positions across multiple sites in the Greater Los Angeles area, which include the following:
  • Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (UCLA's main tertiary/quaternary care teaching hospital treating patients across the socioeconomic spectrum with a variety of illnesses, including a large population of patients with solid organ transplants)
  • UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center (UCLA teaching hospital that provides tertiary care across the socioeconomic spectrum)
  • UCLA West Valley Medical Center (UCLA community hospital) and Olive View-UCLA Medical Center (LA county teaching hospital affiliated with DGSOM)
  • California Rehabilitation Institute and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital
  • Providence Saint John's Health Center
  • Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center and Torrance Memorial Medical Center
  • Barlow Respiratory Hospital and Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital
  • Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital
  • Los Robles Regional Medical Center

Positions involve traditional inpatient internal medicine coverage, including direct patient care, occasionally in collaboration with advanced practice providers. There are opportunities to spend time on clinical teaching services, supervising residents, and medical students. Responsibilities also include coverage of admission shifts, internal medicine consultation services, preoperative clinics, and night shifts. Available roles may be day shifts, nocturnist roles, or a combination, depending on availability. Successful applicants will also hold a full-time faculty appointment in the Health Sciences Clinical Professor series at the Instructor, Assistant, Associate, or full Professor rank in the Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Responsibilities also include a minimum of 36 hours per week of direct patient care, clinical teaching of medical students and/or residents, participation in creativity in a variety of professional activities including those that may involve teaching, scholarly or administrative contributions (such as research, QI, advancement of Inclusive excellence, community engagement etc.) and participation in university or public service.
The successful candidate must be board eligible or board certified in Internal Medicine. Demonstrated skill in clinical teaching and professional practice is required. An M.D. or D.O. is required. A California medical license is required.
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 at https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/policies/1111.html .
Qualifications
Basic qualifications
An M.D. or D.O. is required.
Additional qualifications
Candidates must be board eligible or board certified in Internal Medicine.
A California medical license is required.
Application Requirements
Document requirements
  • Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
  • Letter of Interest - Why do you want to join the Section of Hospital Medicine at UCLA Health?
    Please limit your response to 500 words maximum.
  • UCLA Mission Statement - As the nation's premier public research university, UC's mission is the creation, dissemination, preservation and application of knowledge for the betterment of our global society. We have a particular responsibility to the people of the state of California which we express in the excellence of the education we provide, the impact of the research we do, the comprehensive, life-saving medical services we provide, and the public service mission we are devoted to. The University of California promotes the social mobility of its students, equips them with the tools and experience that furthers their ambitions, and regards their accomplishments across the life span as evidence of the profoundly positive impact of higher education.
    The UCLA campus has expressed these goals in its strategic plan as follows:
    Deepen our engagement with Los Angeles
    Expand our reach as a global university
    Enhance our research and creative activities
    Elevate how we teach
    Become a more effective institution
    Prompt for candidates for recruitment:
    Reflecting on your personal and professional experiences, highlight your past contributions and future commitments to advancing UCLA's mission as embodied in the 2023-28 strategic plan. These accomplishments and ambitions may be discussed in the context of describing your teaching, scholarship, and service

Reference requirements
  • 2-3 letters of reference required

Please provide at least 2 letters of recommendation. Please share the following prompt with your letter writers to ensure they address the questions noted below.
In your letter of recommendation, please assess the applicant in the following domains:
  • How would you rate their clinical skills compared to their peers?
  • How would you describe their inter-personal and communication skills, including their ability to work in a team context, especially with nurses, social workers, and other ancillary staff?
Apply link: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10517
Help contact: kabarron@mednet.ucla.edu
About UCLA
As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.
As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.
  • "Misconduct" means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant's previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment, discrimination, dishonesty, or unethical conduct, as defined by the employer.
  • UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy
  • UC Anti-Discrimination Policy for Employees, Students and Third Parties
  • APM - 035: Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment

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