SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Gerald S. Levey, Dean and Provost
UCLA
12-105 Center for the Health Sciences
Box 957035
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7035
(310) 825-6081
http://www.medsch.ucla.edu
At the UCLA School of Medicine, faculty and students play a dynamic role in the campus and Los Angeles communities. Not only are they in the clinics, wards, and operating rooms of the UCLA Medical Center and Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, they are also at work in the facilities of the Molecular Biology Institute, the Department of Physiology, the Health Sciences Computer Center, the Neuropsychiatric Institute, and in dozens of other clinical and scientific units. They are in community clinics, health fairs, and schools, and assist at disaster sites in the international community.
Students at the UCLA Medical Center are exposed to the best of many worlds--strong research-oriented basic and clinical science departments, a hospital consistently ranked among the nation's elite, superb affiliated clinical facilities that provide the full spectrum of teaching settings and patient populations, and a biomedical library that is considered one of the world's best.
departments are each staffed by a distinguished faculty of respected researchers and practitioners. They have some of the most technologically advanced equipment and facilities, including two of the nation's 56 hospital-based biomedical cyclotrons producing short-lived radioisotopes for biological research and diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures.
The School of Medicine offers an M.D. degree program, allied health programs in affiliation with other hospitals and universities, postgraduate medical training programs, and the following master's and doctoral degrees offered through the Graduate Division.
Anatomy and Cell Biology (M.S., C.Phil., Ph.D.)
Biological Chemistry (M.S., Ph.D.)
Biomedical Physics (M.S., Ph.D.)
Microbiology and Immunology (M.S., Ph.D.)
Molecular and Medical Pharmacology (M.S., Ph.D.)
Pathology--Experimental Pathology (M.S., Ph.D.)
Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Clinical Psychology Internship (Certificate)
The Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree program develops a comprehensive scientific and humanistic approach to patient care that includes basic sciences, preventive medicine, diagnosis, and therapeutics. Clinical skills are taught in the context of anatomical, molecular, pathophysiological, and psychosocial factors in health, disease, and treatment.
The curriculum combines traditional teaching with problem-based learning and laboratories to maximize the educational experience. Because medical school is but one phase in a physician's education, the curriculum prepares students for a future in which scientific knowledge, social values, and human needs are ever changing. Formats for instruction include lectures, tutorials, seminars, laboratories, demonstrations, and visits to physicians' offices; students are exposed to patients from their first week through graduation.
The M.D. degree requires a four-year medical curriculum that prepares students broadly for careers in research, practice, or teaching in the medical field of their choice. The curriculum emphasizes issues of growing importance such as primary care, research opportunities for careers in academic medicine, human genetics and the evolving world of gene therapy, psychosocial issues of health and disease, preventive medicine, and medical ethics.
For details on the M.D. curriculum or to apply to the M.D. program, contact the School of Medicine Admissions Office, 12-105 CHS, UCLA, Box 957035, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7035. See http://www.college.ucla.edu/up/pao for details on the four-year premedical studies program.
Special programs address the needs and issues of specific communities and populations.
UCR/UCLA Biomedical Sciences Program
The UCR/UCLA Biomedical Sciences Program is a cooperative venture involving UC Riverside, the UCLA School of Medicine, and selected Riverside community sites. Students may earn both the B.S. and M.D. degrees in seven years through a combined program maximizing the curricula of both. See http://www.biomed.ucr.edu.
Drew/UCLA Medical Education Program
The Drew/UCLA Medical Education Program is designed to attract students who are interested in addressing the concerns of underserved populations. Students in the program spend their first two years at the UCLA campus and complete their last two years of clinical work at the King/Drew Medical Center on the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science campus. See http://www.cdrewu.edu.
Articulated and Concurrent Degrees
The School of Medicine and the Graduate Division offer an articulated degree program that allows students to earn both the M.D. and Ph.D. in about seven years, depending on the course of study and research. The Ph.D. may be awarded in one of several medical sciences fields. Call the Medical Scientist Traing Program for details. 
310-794-1817
A concurrent program with the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management allows medical students to earn both the M.D. and M.B.A. degrees over five years by following a designated course of study and some shared coursework. Separate application must be made to the Anderson School during the third year of medical school. 310- 825-3970
An arrangement with the School of Public Health enables students to pursue the M.P.H. degree while attending medical school. Interested students should call the School of Public Health. 310-825-5516
Postgraduate medical training programs, including residencies, are offered through all the clinical departments at UCLA and the affiliated training hospitals such as Harbor-UCLA, Cedars-Sinai, and West Los Angeles VA Medical Centers, Sepulveda-San Fernando Valley Program, and many others. Programs at the affiliated institutions broaden the scope of the teaching programs by providing extensive clinical facilities, special population settings, and diverse practice modes. Information about these programs is available from the individual clinical departments of the School of Medicine or the affiliated hospitals.
For information on allied health programs in the Center for the Health Sciences call 310-794-8352
The UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) is one of the world's leading interdisciplinary research and education institutes devoted to the understanding of complex human behavior. Ten research centers, ranging from genetics to human culture, together with research initiatives distributed widely across the academic departments of the School of Medicine and the College of Letters and Science provide a comprehensive and outstanding research and training environment for the study of neuroscience and behavior.
The research portfolio of the 400 faculty, graduate students, and fellows who work in the institute spans behavioral genetics, developmental neurobiology, cognitive neuroscience, neuropharmacology, brain imaging, clinical research, health policy, and sociocultural studies of human behavior and its disorder. For further information, see http://www.MentalHealth.ucla.edu.
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