California fellows attend seminars in two intensive three-day sessions, held three months apart. Fellows have a chance to work on fellowship projects with mentors and to discuss with experts and each other how to cover health news with authority and sophistication.

• Narrative and Heart: The Craft behind Stories that Resonate with Audiences, a keynote  address by Victor Merina, senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism
• Going Beyond the Fluff: How to Investigate Your Local Hospital, an interactive workshop presented by Charles Ornstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at the Los Angeles Times.
• Understanding Medical Studies and Statistics: A Briefing for Journalists,  presented by Erika Franklin Fowler, Ph.D, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar at the University of Michigan
• Context and Balance: Telling the Whole Story in Health News, an interactive workshop presented by  Robert J. Davis, Ph.D, MPH, author of The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting Through the Hype About Your Health,
• How to Spot Conflicts of Interest in Health Care
• A Look Behind the Scenes in One of the Nation's Busiest ERs, a discussion and tour  led by Edward J. Newton, M.D., head of the ER at  LA County-USC Medical Center
• An interactive workshop on "geo mapping," a multimedia technique that journalists can use to impart valuable demographic, health, and community asset data to their audiences,
• Health Care Reform: Where are we Headed? a talk by Peter Harbage, health policy consultant