Medicine

Subject abbreviation: MDCL School of Medicine Division of Biomedical Sciences Division of Clinical Sciences

G. Richard Olds, M.D., Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine Phyllis A. Guze, M.D., Executive Dean and Chair, Division of Clinical Sciences Paul Lyons, M.D., Senior Associate Dean, Education Neal L. Schiller, Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean, Student Affairs, and Director, Thomas Haider Program at the UCR School of Medicine Emma Simmons, M.D., Associate Dean, Student Affairs Mahendr S. Kochar, M.D., Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education Monica J. Carson, Ph.D., Interim Senior Associate Dean, Research, and Chair, Division of Biomedical Sciences John Heydt, M.D., Senior Associate Dean, Clinical Affairs Michael N. Nduati, M.D., Associate Dean, Clinical Affairs Scott Allen, M.D., Associate Dean, Academic Affairs Ameae Walker, Ph.D., Chair of the Faculty, School of Medicine Stewart W. Shankel, M.D., Director of Clinical Instruction Lawrence K. Loo, M.D., Associate Director of Clinical Instruction

Student Affairs Office, 1682 SOM Education Bldg., (951) 827-4333 or 4334; medschool.ucr.edu

Professors Iryna M. Ethell, Ph.D. Biology, Biochemistry David Lo, M.D., Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, Genetics G. Richard Olds, M.D., FACP Paul M. Quinton, Ph.D. Physiology Neal L. Schiller, Ph.D. Distinguished Teaching Professor, Microbiology, Immunology Ameae M. Walker, Ph.D. Distinguished Teaching Professor, Microanatomy Professors Emereti Mary Ann Baker, Ph.D. Neurosciences Craig V. Byus, Ph.D. Pharmacology, Biomedical Sciences, Biochemistry David A. Johnson, Ph.D. Pharmacology Richard A. Luben, Ph.D. Endocrinology,

Biomedical Sciences, Biochemistry Anthony W. Norman, Ph.D. Endocrinology,

Biomedical Sciences, Biochemistry Michael B. Stemerman, M.D. Biomedical Sciences Daniel S. Straus, Ph.D. Human Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Associate Professors Monica J. Carson, Ph.D. Neuroimmunology Kathryn DeFea, Ph.D. Cell Biology, Biochemistry Christian Y. Lytle, Ph.D. Physiology Ilhem Messaoudi, Ph.D. Immunology, Microbiology, Aging Assistant Professors Djurdjica Coss, Ph.D. Endocrinology, Neuroscience Declan McCole, Ph.D. Physiology, Pharmacology Meera G. Nair, Ph.D. Infectious Diseases, Mucosal Immunology Emma Wilson, Ph.D. Parasite Immunologist ** Associate Professor in Residence Devin Binder, M.D./Ph.D. Clinical Neuroscience Clinical Professors Ann F. Bolger, M.D. Phyllis A. Guze, M.D. Medicine John Heydt, M.D. Family Medicine Jonathan W. Horstmann, M.D. William P. Hunt, M.D. Daniel Il-Sun Kim, M.D., Medicine Mahendr S. Kochar, M.D. Medicine Rajagopal Krishnan, M.D. Steven E. Larson, M.D. Sharon M. Laughlin, M.D. Lawrence K. Loo, M.D. Medicine Paul Lyons, M.D. Family Medicine Walter Marcus, M.D. Elizabeth M. Richards, M.D. Stewart W. Shankel, M.D. Medicine Richard Sheldon, M.D. Barbara A. Silver, M.D. C. Paul Sinkhorn, M.D. Catherine Steel, Ph.D. Paula W. Stoessel, Ph.D. Arnold D. Tabuenca, M.D. Surgery Constance M. Vadheim, Ph.D. Associate Clinical Professors Scott Allen, M.D. Medicine Gary Annunziata, D.O. Suvesh Chandiok, M.D. Walter P. F. Combs, M.D. Alan C. Compton, M.D. Andrew Corr, M.D. Vinod K. Dasika, M.D. Samuel E. Dey, Jr., M.D. James T. Evans, M.D. Donald G. Gates, D.O. Jonathan R. Greer, M.D. Thomas T. Haider, M.D. Laura Hammond, Ph.D. Frank D. Howard, M.D. Thanh Vincent Hoang, M.D. Galen C.-L. Huang, M.D. Andrew M. Hubbard, M.D. James Hwang, D.O. Ramesh Karody, M.D. Javier I. Machuca, M.D. D. Steven Meyering, M.D. Kevin J. Mielke, D.O. Mina N. S. Mikhail, M.D. Vinod Mishra, M.D. Renu Mittal, M.D. Afshin M. Molkara, M.D. Surgery Janis F. Neuman, M.D. Virgil J. Nielsen, M.D. Kirk D. Pagel, M.D. Charles Pai, D.O. Baldev S. Rai, M.D. Sharon Riesen, M.D. Ancel J. Rogers, M.D. Robert E. Sallis, M.D. Graham A. Scott, M.D. Emma Simmons, M.D. Family Medicine Jeffrey R. Simons, M.D. Robert B. Summerour, M.D. Psychiatry Ravi Thiruvengadam, M.D. Daniel Truong, M.D. Samuel G. Wiltchik, M.D. Joanne T. Witkowski, M.D. Assistant Clinical Professors Adolfo Aguilera, M.D. Family Medicine Zabayel Akele, M.D. Andrew Alexander, M.D. Family Medicine Muhammad Arif, M.D. Family Medicine Huy Au, M.D. Kenneth Ballou, M.D. Raja Bhupathy, M.D. Antonius Brandon, Ph.D. Darcy Bryan, M.D. Daniel Calac, M.D. Adam Chen, M.D. Thomas Chen, M.D. Yi-Pin Cheng, M.D. Family Medicine Bob Chiang, M.D. Family Medicine Eric Choi, M.D. Andrew P. Corr, M.D. Israel Coutin, M.D. Tien N. Dinh, M.D. Christine Duong, M.D. Ramiz Fargo, M.D. Charles Gonzales, M.D. Family Medicine Learned Gonzales, M.D. Medicine Tahany Habashy, M.D. Medicine Leita Harris, M.D. Richard L. Henderson, M.D. Patrick Hu, M.D. Michael Hughes, M.D. Family Medicine Emad Ibrahim, M.D. Talha Imam, M.D. Salam Ishak, M.D. Harold Jackson, D.O. Ilho Kang, M.D. Gemma Kim, M.D. Family Medicine Jean Kim, M.D. Tae Kim, M.D. Family Medicine Walter Klein, M.D. David A. Lanum, M.D. Mimi Le, M.D. Peter Leung, M.D. Brian Lim, M.D. Mary M. Marcinko, M.D. Bahram Mirza, M.D. Iqbal Munir, M.D. Michael Nduati, M.D. Family Medicine Michael Neri, M.D. Truclinh Nguyen, D.O. William Ochoa, M.D. Jon Persichino, D.O. Lien Pham, M.D. Winola Purushotham, M.D. Lakshmi Puvvula, M.D. Michael Riewe, M.D. Aaron Rubin, M.D. Michael T. Saito, M.D. Shivani Scharf, M.D. Ivan Schatz, M.D. Lionel Tan, M.D. Robert Theal, M.D. Duc To, M.D. Karen White, Ph.D. Steven Wilson, M.D. Babak Zamiri, M.D. Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor Kendrick A. Davis, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor John Y.-J. Shyy, Ph.D. Pharmacology, Physiology

The mission of the UCR School of Medicine is to improve the health of the people of California and, especially, to serve Inland Southern California by training a diverse workforce of physicians and by developing innovative research and health care delivery programs that will improve the health of the medically underserved in the region and become models to be emulated throughout the state and nation.

With its opening in summer 2013, the UCR School of Medicine became the first new public medical school in California in more than four decades. It is expressly designed to meet the physician workforce needs in Inland Southern California and to improve the health of people living in the region. The school’s community- based model provides medical students with clinical experiences in a variety of healthcare settings with diverse patient populations.

The UCR School of Medicine seeks students with diverse intellectual and life experiences. The school values broad academic backgrounds that include humanities, foreign language, social sciences and the arts to help prepare future physicians for interacting with increasingly diverse patient populations, health care professionals and colleagues. Each applicant’s complete portfolio will be reviewed Medicine 344 / Programs and Courses

carefully in order to select students who are not only academically qualified but who have the breadth of volunteer/community and personal experiences to ensure that they will become physicians well prepared to care for the diverse population in our communities. medschool.ucr. edu/admissions

The Thomas Haider Program at the UCR School of Medicine is a special program within the school that provides a unique pathway into medical school for UCR students, with up to 24 seats filled by students who attend UCR for at least six consecutive quarters and complete their bachelor’s degree at UCR. medschool.ucr. edu/admissions/haider_program.html

All School of Medicine applicants apply to the UCR School of Medicine through the American Medical College Application Service, at www. amcas.org/students/applying/amcas, following its guidelines and deadlines. Students may submit their applications at any time during the application period, as early as June (14 months before medical school classes begin in August at UCR) or as late as November 15 (9 months before classes begin). Applications without recent MCAT scores are considered incomplete. Review the application guidelines at www.medschool.ucr.edu/admissions.

Program Prerequisites

Pre-medical Education Although students must complete the required pre-medical coursework listed below, students are not required to be science majors to do so. The School of Medicine values broad academic backgrounds that include humanities, foreign language, social sciences and the arts to help prepare future physicians for interacting with increasingly diverse patient populations, health care professionals and colleagues.

Required

• • Mathematics (12 quarter units) to include

introductory calculus and statistics

• • English (12 quarter units) to include the

study of English composition

• • General college physics with laboratory

(12 quarter units)

• • College chemistry with laboratory to

include inorganic and organic chemistry (24 quarter units)

• • General biology with laboratory (12

quarter units)

Recommended

• • A one-quarter course in biochemistry

• • Spanish

• • Computer skills

• • Humanities

Completion of Requirements

Students must complete all premedical requirements before beginning the first year of medical study, although these requirements need not be completed at the time application for admission is filed. AP credit with a score of 4 or 5 (or International Baccalaureate score of 6 or 7) can be used to satisfy one quarter or one semester of English and one quarter or one semester of Mathematics. AP (or IB) credit can NOT be used to satisfy the Physics, Chemistry or Biology requirements.

Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)

The MCAT must be taken not later than fall of the year preceding admission to the School of Medicine. If more than one MCAT was taken, all the test grades must be included when making an application. The test must be repeated if, at the time of application, more than three years have elapsed since it was taken. Requests for test reports and all other correspondence and requests for information concerning the administration, processing, and scoring of the MCAT should be directed to the MCAT Program Office.

Additional details regarding application requirements and the admissions process can be found at medschool.ucr.edu/admissions

Academic Advising UCR undergraduates receive academic advising from professional staff and faculty of the department or program of their chosen major. Professional staff and peer mentors in the medical school’s Health Professions Advising Center are available to guide students in planning pre-health professions course work, gaining health- related experiences, completing service work and can assist with preparing to apply for admission to graduate and professional programs. hpac.ucr. edu

For more information UCR School of Medicine Office of Student Affairs 1682A School of Medicine Education Building University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA 92521

• (951) 827-4333

margie.moreno@ucr.edu