David Geffen School of Medicine

22-412A Marion Davies Children’s Center
Box 951752
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1752

Pediatrics
310-825-5095

• Sherin U. Devaskar, MD, Executive Chair
  Peter G. Szilagyi, MD, MPH, Executive Vice Chair and Vice Chair, Research

The Department of Pediatrics has faculty members at the following teaching hospitals: Cedars-Sinai, Harbor-UCLA, Long Beach, Olive View-UCLA, and UCLA Santa Monica medical centers; Miller Children’s and Women’s Long Beach and UCLA Mattel Children’s hospitals; and Venice Family Clinic. For second-year medical students, the fundamentals of pediatric history and physical examination are taught at all sites as part of the pediatric clinical skills course.

For third-year medical students, the required four-week clinical clerkship in pediatrics is offered at five sites: Cedars-Sinai, Harbor-UCLA, Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles, Olive View-UCLA, UCLA, and UCLA Santa Monica medical centers; and UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital. For fourth-year medical students, the Pediatrics Department offers a wide variety of senior medical student electives in pediatrics. In-depth subspecialty electives offered by the department are listed in the School of Medicine Handbook of Clinical Courses, as are advanced clinical clerkships.

For more details on the Department of Pediatrics and courses offered, see the department website.