The School of Medicine

Medical Student Affairs: 1682A School of Medicine Education Building

• (951) 827-7353; fax: (951) 827-5504

medadmissions@ucr.edu; medschool.ucr.edu

Ph.D. Program in Biomedical Sciences 1682 School of Medicine Education Building

• (951) 827-4540 medschool.ucr.edu/graduate

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.

The UCR School of Medicine, the first new public medical school to be developed in California in more than 40 years, 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 M.D. curriculum offers a program that trains physicians who will be more attuned to the needs of increasingly diverse and underserved patient populations, with emphasis on culturally competent medical care. The Thomas Haider Program at the UCR School of Medicine maintains 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

Together with affiliated medical centers in the community, the school is building a range of residency training programs to provide the post-M.D. education required for physicians to become fully independent, licensed and board certified. New and developing residency training programs in affiliation with area medical centers currently includes the specialties of general internal medicine, family medicine, general pediatrics, OB/ GYN, psychiatry, general surgery, child and adolescent psychiatry and cardiovascular medicine. medschool.ucr.edu/gme 93 / Colleges and Academic Programs Education, is a resource available to all UCR undergraduate students and alumni interested in careers in the health professions, including medicine, dentistry, nursing, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, veterinary medicine and public health. Professional staff and peer mentors are available to guide students in planning pre-health professions coursework, gaining health-related experiences and completing service work. A variety of workshops on such topics as the application process and personal statement writing are also offered. hpac.ucr.edu

In addition to the School of Medicine Research Building and School of Medicine Education Building, the school’s faculty, students and staff carry out their educational, research and administrative functions in Webber Hall, in Pierce Hall and in several clinical locations within Riverside and San Bernardino counties.