Program Director’s Corner

Welcome to the Olive View-UCLA Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship Training Program.

Dear Applicant,

Thank you for your interest in our clinical training program. If you are considering applying, you have already made the excellent choice to pursue a career in Hematology/Oncology, which in my opinion is among the most dynamic and rewarding fields in medicine. As a former graduate of this program, I can confidently state that the Olive View-UCLA fellowship program offers among the most rigorous and transformative training experiences in Southern California.

As a brief summary of the fellowship experience, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in the San Fernando Valley serves as the home base of our program. We serve an historically indigent/underserved community of patients, with varied and often late presentations of malignancies and hematologic conditions. Our program also leverages our relationship with UCLA to provide rotations in Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapeutics services at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center and UCLA Santa Monica Hospital, along with opportunities to rotate in subspecialty clinics with world-renowned UCLA faculty. Lastly, senior fellows rotate at Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center in a 3-month “capstone” experience that consolidates knowledge and provides a preview of what a career in a busy community practice would look like.

Every year, I am asked about the aspects of our program that make it unique. I would boil it down to the following key areas:

– Fellows manage a panel of patients for which they are the primary oncologist from day one, with the supervision and support of our faculty. This offers unparalleled fellow ownership of patient care that leaves them ready to tackle independent clinical practice immediately upon graduation.

– Rotations across multiple sites including within the UCLA and Kaiser networks allow fellows to experience how care is delivered in different health systems and provides significant networking opportunities.

– Low fellow to faculty ratio which allows for individualized coaching and professional development.

Our program seeks an incoming class with diverse backgrounds and strong foundational knowledge of Internal Medicine, who seek to embrace the challenge of treating our underserved population and have demonstrated an enthusiasm for the field.

Best of luck to you this application season and I look forward to hearing from you.

Jarred Reed, M.D.
Program Director
Hematology-Oncology Fellowship