Our Story
About Us
We think medical students should engage with healthcare innovation and inequity now, not just after training.
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, panels, and events, we push medical students to think beyond the clinic and treat innovation and equity as core to their training.
“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 come from mixing medicine, technology, policy, and lived experience.
Participation
We learn by showing up at events, from speakers, and outside 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 UCLA DGSOM medical students agreed on one thing: future physicians should engage with innovation and health equity now, not after residency. Our first panel on clerkship gaps and medtech inequity set the direction.
Groundwork
A year of behind-the-scenes work building the org, assembling the team, and shaping the programming for MedTech for All's relaunch.
Launching
MedTech for All came back swinging. We kicked off with a workshop on AI as a learning tool, then went to MIT for the Hacking Medicine Grand Hack, competing in three tracks.