Third Year Required Core Clerkship
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Course Description
The goal of this clerkship is for the students to learn family-centered primary health care that is humanistic, comprehensive, cost-effective, continuous, and sensitive to psychosocial, ethical, and financial issues. Because family physicians take care of families, the clerkship will include family dynamics, the family's influence on health, and the impact of illness on the family.
Our clerkship provides an opportunity for students to learn about the diagnosis and management of patients with common problems. Students will be expected to learn a comprehensive approach to the patient with these problems that entails consideration of etiology, incidence, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, course, prognosis, treatment, and appropriate aspects of patient education, disease prevention, and health promotion. Students should develop sensitivity to social, familial, ethical, legal, cultural, and economic issues encountered in an ambulatory setting.
Clerkship sites and directors:
- Harbor/UCLA Medical Center (Gilberto Granados, M.D.)
- UCLA Family Health Center (Benjamin Gilmore, M.D.)
- Northridge Family Medicine Center (Cindy Yang, M.D.)
- Ventura County General Hosp. & Clinics (James Helmer, M.D.)
- Kaiser Sunset (Walter G. Coppenrath, M.D.)
- Kaiser Woodland Hills (Martin Levitt, M.D.)
- Kaiser Fontana (Renu Mittal, M.D.)
- Glendale Adventist Medical Center (Jack Yu, M.D.)
- Long Beach Memorial Hospital (Cynthia Herzog, M.D.)
- Mid Valley Family Health Center (Lacey Wyatt, M.D.)
- Whittier PIH (Ana Bejinez-Eastman, M.D.)
- Pomona Valley Medical Center (Greg Dahlquist, M.D.)
For more information, please contact the course coordinator or visit
http://www.medstudent.ucla.edu/current/year2/clerkship.cfm