Our Story
About Us
We believe medical students have a responsibility to engage with healthcare innovation and inequity — not just after training, but right now.
Mission
At the intersection of medicine, innovation, and equity
MedTech for All is a medical student organization at UCLA DGSOM that creates spaces to explore how technology, policy, and community engagement can address healthcare inequities.
Through hackathons, workshops, speaker panels, and community events, we encourage medical students to think beyond the clinic — engaging with innovation and equity as core parts of their medical education.
“Innovation in medicine means nothing if it doesn’t reach the patients who need it most.”
MedTech for All Founding Charter
Values
What guides us
Health Equity
We center underserved communities in every conversation about healthcare innovation and progress.
Intersectionality
The best ideas emerge at the intersection of medicine, technology, policy, and lived experience.
Participation
We learn by engaging — attending events, hearing from leaders, and getting involved beyond the lecture hall.
Excellence
We hold ourselves to the highest standard because healthcare and the patients we serve demand it.
History
How we got here
Founded
A group of medical students at UCLA DGSOM came together around a shared conviction: future physicians need to engage with innovation and health equity now, not after residency. Our founding panel on clerkship inadequacies and medtech inequity set the tone for everything that followed.
Groundwork
A year of behind-the-scenes coordination and planning — building the organizational foundation, assembling the team, and shaping the programming that would define MedTech for All's relaunch.
Launching
MedTech for All came back with momentum. We kicked off with an inaugural workshop on AI as a learning tool, then traveled to MIT for the Hacking Medicine Grand Hack — competing across three tracks at one of the world's premier healthcare hackathons.