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DGSOM CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: THE COLLEGES. Student Affairs Office Aurora Reyes, MAEd Shamar Jones Mitsue Yokota, EdD Academic Medicine College Chairs Gary Satou, MD Gary Schiller, MD. FALL 2012. Agenda. What are the Colleges? Academic Medicine College Mission Components
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DGSOM CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: THE COLLEGES Student Affairs Office Aurora Reyes, MAEd Shamar Jones Mitsue Yokota, EdD Academic Medicine College Chairs Gary Satou, MD Gary Schiller, MD FALL 2012
Agenda • What are the Colleges? • Academic Medicine College • Mission • Components • Academic Medicine Specialties Discussion
What are The Colleges? The colleges are designed to strengthen career advising, improve the quality and selection of electives, provide a means of honing clinical skills, and stimulate discussion of new findings in the basic, social, and clinical sciences relevant to the future practice of medicine. College activities include an introductory course focused on advanced clinical skills and decision making, a monthly series of evening seminars, a longitudinal academic activity that can be either teaching or scholarship, and regular advisory meetings.
The Colleges Academic Medicine Acute Care Applied Anatomy Primary Care Urban Underserved
Academic Medicine College Gary Schiller, MD Chair Gary Satou, MD Vice-Chair
Mission To develop individualized educational pathways for students who are/have: • Considering an academic career involving teaching and research • Attracted to subspecialty careers in which research will play a part • Enjoyed and want to continue their STTP summer research project • Remain actively engaged in research
AMC Specialties • (Academic Focus) • Subspecialties in : • Medicine • Pediatrics • Pathology • Other specialties
Career Specialty Interest Groups • Cardiology Interest Group (CIG) • Dermatology Interest Group (DIG) • Psychiatry Interest Group (PSYCSIG)
AMC Sponsored Selectives • Ethnic Diversity in Diet and Nutrition • The Gray Zone: Clinical Topics Requiring Conversation • Hematologic Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant • Hot Topics in Nutrition and Disease • Introduction to Biomedical Research at UCLA • Leadership in Health Systems Innovation • Zoobiquity
Academic Medicine College • How would you describe the typical work day of a(n): • Hematologist? • Pediatric Cardiologist? • What do you enjoy most about your specialty? • What are the biggest challenges you face in your specialty?
Resources and Links • For more information about the Colleges, click here • For more information about Career Specialty Interest groups, click here • For more information about College sponsored selectives, click here • For information about Careers in Medicine, click here