The UCR SOM Strategic Initiatives Communications team welcomes submissions of content for potential use on our social media platforms from students, staff, and faculty. These include speaking presentations, poster presentations, lobbying and other opportunities to promote the UCR School of Medicine, community events, and other events of note.

Photos and written content may be emailed to ross.french@medsch.ucr.edu or vladimir.oge@medsch.ucr.edu.

To facilitate this process, we ask that everyone follow these guidelines when submitting content.

• Content must be directly related to the UCR School of Medicine and its students, staff, and faculty.
• Content must meet the values and mission of the UCR School of Medicine.
• If content pertains to an event, the submission should include the name, date, and location of the event. Please ensure that you use the full proper name of the event.
• Links to the event may be included if relevant.
• We ask that participants coordinate so that only one individual is sending the photos and information to the Strategic Initiatives team.
• Photos should be sent in a JPG format. AVIF and HEIC/HEIF formats should be converted to JPG before sending.
• Please be sure that you are being inclusive in your submission and include all relevant UCR SOM personnel at the event.
• Please limit the number of photos to no more than five. Please pick the photos that you want us to use, rather than us selecting the image(s) on your behalf. If you need to share more than five photos, please explain the reason.
• Photos may be uploaded to a shared drive (eg Google Drive).
• Videos should be high quality and, ideally, recorded in a vertical orientation.
• All individuals whose photos are taken must be informed that their picture is being taken for use on UCR SOM social media. If a person elects to not be included, please retake the photo. We will not edit any photos, aside from basic cropping.
• The names of all individuals in the photos must be double-checked for accuracy before submission.
• For medical students, please reference their year in the program (eg MS1, MS2, MS3, MS4).
• For faculty and staff, please list their degree after their name rather than using “doctor.” You may also use their academic title when appropriate (eg, VC and Dean Deborah Deas, MD, MPH; Steve Reyes, PhD.)
• All content submitted becomes property of the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine and may be used in perpetuity.
• Submission does not guarantee that the content will be posted to social media or to all platforms.
• The SI Communications team may elect to use the content differently than intended.
• All written content is subject to editing and rewriting by the SI Communications team.
• AI-generated content will not be used as-is and will be edited.
• Emojis should be used sparingly, if at all.