Here ya go:
8:00AM REGISTRATION and CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST at Jules Stein Auditorium
8:30
--Yay! free food, UCLA med school goodie bags and meet people
WELCOME and OVERVIEW
Dr. Neil H. Parker
Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Graduate Medical Education
--"Come to UCLA, we are so awesome. We are an amazing institution with every opportunity and we have LA is a great city where you can do whatever you want in academics and leisure [Insert lame joke]...blah blah blah"
EXPLORING THE CURRICULUM
Dr. Margaret L. Stuber
Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Co-chair, Medical Education Committee
--Learn about the cirriculum, etc...
(BTW I love UCLA's cirriculum completely pass/fail first two years, only 10hrs lecture/week, organ based, redundant, only tests every 8 weeks...)
9:45 10:20 TOUR OF SIMULATED CLASSES EN ROUTE TO PBL GROUPS
Medical Student Escorts
Histopathology Laboratory: Dr. Shelley Metten
Physiology Laboratory:
Demonstration Lecture Hall with ARS: Dr. Theodore R. Hall
--We just stopped by a couple of our future classrooms for labs and listened to a quick speech by future lab professors. they have pretty nice lab facilities
10:20 PROBLEM BASED LEARNING in SMALL GROUPS
School of Medicine Faculty
--This was somewhat interesting seeing how the PBL will work (which i think they do very good job of integrating with the rest of the cirriculum), but since nobody knows anything at this point in time, it was kind of a waste of time. It was also the first opportunity for wannnabe gunners to showoff
11:30 Travel to Wilson Medical Student Center
LUNCHEON by Versailles
Hosted by Dr. Gerald S. Levey
Vice Chancellor, Medical Sciences
Dean, School of Medicine
Medical Student Panel
--Good Food, "Come to UCLA, we are awesome..."
1:00PM Travel to Lecture Hall 13-105CHS
PREVIEW OF THE DOCTORING CURRICULUM
Dr. Paula Cifuentes Henderson
Assistant Professor, Family Medicine
--This was actually pretty cool, we got to see what it is like doing a interview with a standardized patient during a doctoring class (They have good actors for standardized patients as you might imagine)
2:15 Financing Your Medical Education at UCLA
Teddie Milner, Director Student Financial Services
--blah blah blah
3:00 CLOSING, EVALUATION and RAFFLE Dr. Parker
--some people won some UCLA stuff
3:15 4:45 INFORMATION TABLES - School of Medicine Mailbox Foyer
Selected Medical Student Organizations
--The information tables set-up was poorly organized I couldnt really tell what was going on because there was no room in the crammed hallway and instead i just talked to other prospective students
3:15, 3:30 OPTIONAL 1-HOUR CAMPUS/COMMUNITY VAN TOUR DEPARTS FROM BREEZEWAY (Advanced Sign-up Required)
--loop around UCLA, check out Weyburn Housing (nice new apartment complexes where everyone lives. they are kind of small, but managable)
4:45 OPTIONAL 4-HOUR HIGHLIGHTS OF LOS ANGELES BUS TOUR with DINNER (Departs from Outpatient Turnaround: Advanced Sign-up Required)
--They took us around to Rodeo Drive, Hollywood, Downtown, Santa Monica Pier and gave us a dissapointing bagged dinner. It was a nice trip although the student guides were just winging it, and i was getting tired at this point.
9:00PM ON THE TOWN WITH MEDICAL STUDENTS (Sign Up at Registration)
Sunday, May 7, 2006
--Good times at Third Street Promenade. I guess i better get used to paying $12 for a long island iced tea
11:00AM- 2:00PM BRUNCH by Invitation Only
Home of Dr. Theodore Hall
RSVPs are Essential
--This was the wierdest thing ever. They had valet parking at his house, which was not a mansion, but just a regular house. you could have easily parked on your own down the street, but they actually hired a valet to do it for you (welcome to LA
). But anyway the food was good and it was another good time to talk with your future classmates