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Selectives

First & Second Year Selective Program

The First and Second Year Selective Program is a seven-week (or equivalent) experience in which you may choose to participate in a pre-defined selective course (see Course Descriptions link below) or you may create an independent experience which may be research or clinical.

 

Please Note:

  • Once you have been assigned to a selective, you will be expected to complete it
  • The completion of at least one selective with a grade of Pass is required before the end of second year.

 

 

:: SESSION B UPDATE - Course Descriptions (as of Nov. 2011)

These are the courses with availability for Session B. 

Please email Brandon Susselman if you would like to sign up

 

:: Course Descriptions (as of Aug. 2011)

 


 

Selective Courses

The majority of selective courses are seven weeks in length and are taught in small groups (Optimum group size requirements may be stipulated by the course instructor). The offerings focus on specialized topics, of which the following are typical examples: health care reform, caring for the underserved, and alternative medicine. Instruction will not involve lectures. Instead, you will use discussions, readings and independent projects to derive knowledge and develop concepts. Not all of the Selectives meet every week, but instead some are longitudinal and meet throughout the academic year. The list of Selectives offered can be found by clicking the 'Course Descriptions' link above.

Selectives  2011-2012 (and course chairs/coordinators/instructors)

SESSION A

  • Comprehensive Management of Prevalent Conditions in Primary Care Medicine - Lawrence May, M.D.
  • The Developing Brain And Its Environment –  Jorge Lazareff, M.D.
  • Head and Neck Anatomy Integration - Elena Stark, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Health Policy: What Every Physician Needs to Know ­– Sondra Vazirani, M.D., MPH, Dylan Roby, Ph.D., and Carl Stevens, M.D., MPH
  • Introduction to Surgery – Shirin Towfigh, M.D.
  • Learning and Teaching Mindfulness Meditation for Mental Health & Well-Being - Margaret Stuber, M.D. and George Haas
  • Living and Dying: A Psychosocial and Spiritual Approach to End-of-Life Care - Ming Lee, Ph.D.
  • Medical Spanish – Intermediate Level –  Celina Diaz, MPA, Dra. Brenda Sanchez, Dra. Sandy Cadena y Dr. Juan Najarro
  • Multidisciplinary Approach to Global Health – Tom Coates, Ph.D., Risa Hoffman, M.D., MPH, Lee Miller, M.D., Diana Rickard, M.D., and medstudents Sarah Gustafson, Lydia Lo and Christopher Redgate
  • Yoga Therapy - Michael Sinel, M.D.

SESSION B

  • Anatomy, Radiology and You! - Michael Zucker, M.D., and Elena Stark, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Breaking the Chain: Bridging the Medical Community and a Forgotten Population - Sonali Kulkarni, M.D.
  • Caring For Diverse And Disadvantaged Populations –  Ron Edelstein, Ed.D. and Daphne Calmes M.D.
  • Case Studies in Acute Care –  Pamela Dyne, M.D.
  • Clinical Research in Geriatric Psychiatry - Helen Lavretsky, M.D.
  • The Developing Brain And Its Environment –  Jorge Lazareff, M.D.
  • Ethnic Diversity in Diet and Nutrition - Lenore Arab, Ph.D. and Eryn Ujita Lee, Ph.D.
  • The Health of Latino Populations – David Hayes-Bautista, Ph.D.
  • Hematologic Oncology And Bone Marrow Transplant –  Gary Schiller, M.D.
  • Hypnosis and Medicine –  Marc Schoen, Ph.D.
  • Innovation and Invention in Medicine - Roy Doumani
  • Integrative East-West Medicine – Ka-Kit Hui, M.D.
  • Introduction to Clinical and Translational Research at UCLA - Isidro Salusky, M.D.
  • Introduction to Surgery – Shirin Towfigh, M.D.  
  • Living and Dying: A Psychosocial and Spiritual Approach to End-of-Life Care - Ming Lee, Ph.D.
  • Pediatric Rare Diseases –  Shahram Yazdani, M.D.
  • Surgical Anatomy - Elena Stark, M.D., Ph.D., and Richard Braun, M.D.
  • Think-N-Systems - Viktor Sigalov, M.D. and Paul Wimmers, Ph.D.
  • What Every Medical Student Should Know About Drugs, Alcohol, Gambling & Sex –  Timothy Fong, M.D.

LONGITUDINAL

  • BruinBuds – Leslie Hamilton, M.D., Amy Bullock, MSEd, CCLS, and medstudents Amy Kaing and Stephen Speicher
  • Hot Topics in Nutrition & Disease – Lenore Arab, Ph.D. and Eryn Ujita Lee, Ph.D.
  • Introduction to Biomedical Research at UCLA – Kelsey Martin, M.D., Ph.D. and Stephen Smale, Ph.D.
  • Medical Genetics – Katrina Dipple, M.D., Ph.D., and medstudents Steven Klein and Ryan O'Leary
  • Research in Medical Education – Paul Wimmers, Ph.D., and Sebastian Uijtdehaage, Ph.D.
  • Student Run Homeless Clinic – Mary Marfisee, M.D.
  • The Truth About Pediatrics – Alma Guerrero, M.D., Leian Chen, M.D., and Zarin Tejani, M.D.
  • Women’s Health Selective – Sue Baillie, Ph.D., Dotun Ogunyemi, M.D. Lourdes Guerrero, Ed.D., MSW, and medstudents Kristen Checksfield and Bao Ngoc Tran

Independent Experience (Research & Clinical)

Independent experiences may be research or clinical and are created by you the student. Research is highly individualized and may take forms such as bench work in a laboratory, research and analysis in the library, or clinical research involving data analysis and literature review. The research can lead to research publication, while providing training in research practices and critical thinking. For those who are interested in doing summer research this may be a good opportunity to get started.

In general, students involved in research should be highly motivated and willing to put in more than four hours per week over at least 7 weeks. (Fewer hours over a longer period are also possible.) Usually meaningful research cannot be completed in such a short rotation. You should anticipate continuing your research over a longer time period.

Clinical selectives may not meet every week, so that the contact hours may be spread out over a semester or more. In general, you should expect to have two or three clinical contact hours on at least seven separate occasions. You will also have to do outside reading and/or other preparation.

We hope you will find opportunities that will enrich your experiences in the first and second years and allow you to explore avenues that interest you personally. You will receive credit on your transcript for each selective that you complete.

:: Independent Proposal Form

Selectives and Fourth Year Colleges

The First and Second Year Selective Program is sponsored by the Fourth Year Colleges. For more information concerning the Fourth Year Colleges, please visit http://www.medstudent.ucla.edu/current/CareerAdvising/Colleges.cfm


Contact for further Selective information:

Paul Wimmers, Ph.D., First and Second Year Selective Course Chair (pwimmers@mednet.ucla.edu)
Brandon Susselman, First and Second Year Selective Coordinator (bsusselman@mednet.ucla.edu)