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Find academic calendars, detailed schedules, and student organization-sponsored events designed to set you up forsuccess at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
2024 - 2025 Academic Year
Academic Calendars
Fall Semester, 2024
- Base Camp: Monday, August 12– Friday, September 6, 2024
- Foundations of Medical Science I: Monday, September 9– Friday, November 22, 2024
- Break: Monday, November 25– Friday, November 29, 2024
- Foundations of Medical Science I Continues: Monday, December 2– Friday, December 20, 2024
- Break (two weeks): Monday, December 23, 2023– Friday, January 3, 2025
Spring Semester 2025
- Foundations of Medical Science II: Monday, January 6– Friday, February 21, 2025
- Break (one week): Monday, February 24- Friday, February 28, 2025
- Foundations of Medical Science II (cont.): Monday, March 3– Friday, June 13, 2025
Summer Session, 2025
- Foundations of Medical Science III: Monday, June 16– Friday, June 27, 2025
- Break (one week): Monday, June 30- Friday, July 4, 2025
- Foundations of Medical Science III (cont.): Monday, July 7– Friday, August 15, 2025 (*Please note FOMS also continues into Fall 2025 as part of the 2025-2026 academic year)
Fall Semester, 2024
- Foundations of Medical Science Wrap Up: Monday, September 16- Friday, September 20, 2024
- Intersession I (2weeks): Monday, September 23- Friday, October 4, 2024
- Required Rotations Begin (10 weeks): Monday, October 7- Friday, December 13, 2024
- Intersession II (1 week): Monday, December 16- Friday, December 20, 2024
- Break (2 weeks): Monday, December 23, 2024 - Friday, January 3, 2025
Spring Semester, 2025
- Required Rotations Continue (8 weeks): Monday, January 6- Friday, February 28, 2025
- Intersession III (1 week): Monday, March 3- Friday, March 7, 2025
- Required Rotations Continue (8 weeks): Monday, March 10- Friday, May 2, 2025
- Break (1 week): Monday, May 5 - Friday, May 9, 2025
- Intersession IV (1 week): Monday, May 12- Friday, May 16, 2025
- Required Rotations Continue (4weeks): Monday, May 19- Friday, June13, 2025
Summer Session, 2025
- Required Rotations Continue (4weeks): Monday, June 16- Friday, July 11, 2025
- Intersession V (1 week): Monday, July 14 - Friday, July 18, 2025
- Required Rotations Continue (4 weeks): Monday, July 21- Friday, August 15, 2025 (*Please note clerkships also continue into Fall 2025 as part of the 2025-2026 academic year)
Fall Semester, 2024
- UCLA Masters Programs Begin : Start Dates Vary based on Program
- USMLE Prep (6 weeks): Monday, September 16- Friday, October 25, 2024
- Discovery Prep (2 weeks):Monday, October 28 - Friday, November 8, 2024
- Discovery & Longitudinal Clinical Experience Begin (6 weeks): Tuesday, November 12 - Friday December 20, 2024
- Break (2 weeks): Monday, December 23, 2024- Friday, January 3, 2025
Spring Semester, 2025
- Discovery & Longitudinal Clinical ExperienceContinue(23weeks): Tuesday, January 6– Friday, June 13, 2025
Summer Session, 2025
- Elective Rotations Begin (9weeks): Monday, June 16 – Friday, August 15, 2025
Fall Semester, 2024
- Electives Rotations Continue (18 weeks.): Monday, August 19– Friday, December 20,2024
- Break (2 weeks):Monday, December 23, 2024- Friday, January 3, 2025
Spring Semester, 2025
- Elective Rotations Continue (9 weeks): Monday, January 6 – Friday, March 7, 2025
- Capstone (2 weeks): Monday, March 10- Friday, March 21, 2025
- Elective Rotations Continue (12weeks): Monday, March 24– Friday, June 13, 2025
- Commencement Ceremony: TBD
- Semester Ends/Diploma Date: Friday, June 13, 2025
Downloadable Academic Calendars and Schedules
- Academic Calendar 2023-24 (PDF)
- Academic Calendar 2024-2025 (PDF)
- 2nd Year Clinical Calendar of Weeks - Class of 2026(PDF)
- 2nd Year Clinical Calendars of Weeks - Class of 2027 (PDF)
- 4th Year Calendar of Weeks - Class of 2025 (PDF)
- Clerkship Exam Schedule - Class of 2026(PDF)
- Clerkship Exam Schedule - Class of 2027(PDF)
- FOMSAssessment Schedule - Class of 2027(PDF)
- FOMSAssessment Schedule - Class of 2028(PDF)
Annual Events
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Annual Events
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Organization and Function of Cortical Circuits Underlying Long Term Memory
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The Association of ACEs with Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in Midlife
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CTSI R Workshop (Grant Submission Deadline)
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