University of California  Los Angeles

Clinical Positions in Palliative Care 2026-2027

Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • M.D., D.O., or equivalent medical degree required.
  • Active California medical license is essential.
  • Board-eligible or board-certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine necessary.
  • Strong interpersonal and clinical skills needed.
  • Experience in teaching fellows, residents, and medical students preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Provide outpatient and inpatient clinical services in Palliative Care.
  • Conduct home palliative medicine visits for patients.
  • Collaborate with Primary Care, Extensivist Medicine, and Hematology-Oncology teams.
  • Attend on consult services at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center as needed.
  • Engage in the teaching and mentorship of medical students and residents.

Benefits

  • Full-time faculty appointment in the Health Sciences Clinical Professor series.
  • Opportunities to shape innovative care models.
  • Access to a supportive academic community at UCLA.
  • Potential for involvement in impactful research and public service.
Full Job Description
Position description

The UCLA Palliative Care Program has openings for full-time outpatient or inpatient Palliative Care physicians serving the Greater Los Angeles area, including Westwood, Santa Monica, Westlake Village, Santa Clarita, and the South Bay. Successful candidates will be part of an innovative care model with collaboration with Primary Care, Extensivist Medicine, and Hematology-Oncology. Candidates must have strong interpersonal and clinical skills, and will have opportunities for teaching fellows, residents, and medical students.

Positions include outpatient clinical service and home palliative medicine visits, and may include some weeks attending on the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center consult services. The successful applicant will enjoy 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 at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. An M.D., D.O., or equivalent is required. A California medical license is required. Candidates must be board-eligible or board-certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications
An M.D., D.O., or equivalent is required.

Additional qualifications
A California medical license is required.

Candidates must be board-eligible or board-certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Application Requirements

Document requirements
  • Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
  • 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

None
Apply link: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11067

Help contact: [email protected]

Job location

Los Angeles, CA

About University of California Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School. This school was absorbed with the official founding of UCLA as the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919, making it the second-oldest of the 10-campus University of California system. UCLA offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines, enrolling about 31,600 undergraduate and 14,300 graduate and professional students. UCLA received 174,914 undergraduate applications for Fall 2022, including transfers, making the school the most applied-to university in the United States. The university is organized into the College of Letters and Science and 12 professional schools. Six of the schools offer undergraduate degree programs: the School of the Arts and Architecture, Samueli School of Engineering, Herb Alpert School of Music, School of Nursing, Luskin School of Public Affairs and School of Theater, Film and Television. Three others are graduate-level professional health science schools: the David Geffen School of Medicine, School of Dentistry and Fielding School of Public Health. The School of Education & Information Studies, Anderson School of Management and School of Law round out the university.
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