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Welcome to the Office of Belonging, Equity and Empowerment

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At UCI School of Medicine, we are committed to recruiting, admitting and educating talented students — as well as hiring and promoting faculty and staff members — whose backgrounds reflect California’s rich ethnic and cultural diversity.

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Welcome to the Office of Belonging, Equity and Empowerment

The Office of Belonging, Equity and Empowerment (BEE) supports the advancement of inclusive excellence in medicine by promoting values, practices, programming and policies that reflect diversity, equity and inclusion, core values that invigorate the UCI School of Medicine’s mission: Discover. Teach. Heal. We strive to promote a campus community that is welcoming, supportive, culturally sensitive, and responsive to the diverse needs of our students, residents, fellows, faculty and staff.

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LEAD-ABC Cofounders Kaosoluchi Enendu and Dr. Carol Major speak at "White Coats for Black Lives"
PRIME LEAD-ABC

Leadership Education to Advance Diversity–African, Black and Caribbean (PRIME LEAD-ABC) is a UCI School of Medicine mission-based program aimed at producing future physicians who are committed to addressing the health needs of African, Black and Caribbean communities in California, the United States, and beyond.

PRIME LEAD-ABC Program
PRIME-LC Program students
PRIME-LC Program

The Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC) is a five-year MD/Master’s program that is committed to training physicians to meet the needs of under-resourced Latino communities.

PRIME-LC Program
HEAL-IM students learning various integrative health techniques
HEAL-IM Program

Program for training medical students in foundations of integrative medicine, both for their own wellbeing and for guiding future patients to make evidence-based decisions related to incorporating complementary and alternative modalities into their care.

HEAL-IM Program

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Apr 09, 2025 | UCI School of Medicine


Celebrating Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Heritage Month 2025

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Mar 25, 2025 | UCI School of Medicine


Commemorating Equal Pay Day

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Mar 07, 2025 | UCI School of Medicine


Celebrating Women's History Month 2025

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