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.
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.
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
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
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 ProgramExcellence in Diversity
For the third time since 2019, UCI School of Medicine received the Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity publication in higher education. This award recognizes the impact of our mission-based programs (PRIME-LC, PRIME LEAD-ABC, HEAL-IM) in contributing to greater diversity in the healthcare workforce and improved health equity.
