MDCL 233: Gastro, Endocrine & Repro Hlth I

Description: Prerequisite (s): first year standing in medical school. Covers biochemistry, pathophysiology, physical diagnosis & imaging associated with gastrointestinal endocrine & reproductive health. Instruction is driven by cases & accomplished through lectures and discovery in small group discussions, laboratories & conferences. Also covers aspects of anatomy, doctoring, patient examination & the longitudinal ambulatory clinical experience. Includes PBL. Graded In Progress (IP) All School of Medicine applicants apply to the UCR School of Medicine through the American Medical College Application Service, at 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 2 (9 months before classes begin). Applications without recent MCAT scores are considered incomplete. Review the application guidelines at 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