Hey Bruins !!

Happy week 9!

This week we will be having Dr. Ali Shefizadeh, MD, MPP, FACHE.

Dr. Shefizadeh is a transformational healthcare business leader with a record of being a change agent for hospitals and ambulatory care systems throughout the United States, from Fortune 500 companies like Kindred Healthcare and Select Medical to county and state health agencies and hospitals. He trained as a physician at UCLA and has been on medical school admissions committees for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Ali and his team have made TEB Academy, the company he co-founded, the go-to career placement, admissions consulting, and academic advising firm in the country for health sciences students and professionals with an astounding 99.8% placement and admissions success rate in both healthcare clinical and administration placement. To learn more about Dr. Shefizadeh, please visit DrShefizadeh.com or visit TEBAcademy.com

(**As a note, for cyber Monday, TEB Academy is having their biggest sale of the year with 50% off ALL services and products, valid through 6 PM TODAY! Call 310.948.9035 or 714.900.1938 to enroll. Please use promo code CYBERMONDAY18)

Please come prepared with any questions that you may have.
Also, our meeting will be at a different time and place this week.

TIME: 6-6:50 pm
LOCATION: CHS 17-323

If you do not know where this is located, meet us in front of Young Hall (just like last time) and we can walk down together. 🙂

Hope to see you all there!

TIME: Thursday, November 29, 2018, 6-6:50 pm
LOCATION: CHS 17-323
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email us at premedpa@gmail.com.

WEBSITE: https://uclappa.com/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/98119560229/

Hey Bruins!

This week at our meeting we will be having a guest speaker, Dr. Mills! Dr. Mills is a Urologist and he works at Ronald Regan hospital. If this is something that you or any of your friends would be interested in then we HIGHLY recommend you to come this week and ask questions! Don’t miss this great opportunity to learn more about Urology.

Hopefully, by now most of you have met with your mentees/mentors. If not, we think it would be really great if you met soon to discuss things such as planning a schedule for next quarter. As usual, we recommend for you all to meet at our meeting on Thursday!

Hope you guys are all studying hard for those midterms, you got this!!!

TIME: Thursday, November 15th, 5-6 pm
LOCATION: Ackerman Viewpoint Conference Room

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email us at premedpa@gmail.com.

WEBSITE: https://uclappa.com/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/98119560229/

Hey Bruins !!

This week we will be having yet another guest speaker, Dr. Aldrovandi. Dr.Aldrovandi is a pediatrician that works at the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital. If you are interested in pediatrics then you should definitely come out and learn more about Dr. Aldrovandi’s journey! Please come prepared with any questions you may have.

Also, by now everyone should have been assigned their mentors/mentees. We STRONGLY recommend that you get in contact with each other and set up a time to meet and get to know each other. An easy way to do this would be to meet up at our weekly meeting on Thursday. 🙂

That is all for this week and we hope midterms are going well for everyone, you got this!!!
We hope to see everyone our meeting this week.

TIME: Thursday, November 8th, 5 – 5:50 pm
LOCATION: Ackerman Viewpoint Conference Room

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email us at premedpa@gmail.com.

WEBSITE: https://uclappa.com/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/98119560229/

Hey Bruins!

Happy Wednesday, we hope that you are all doing well.

1. This week we will be having guest speaker, Dr. Lee. She is a geriatric doctor at VA greater LA hospital. She will be doing a very interactive presentation so please please please come with any questions that you may have.

2. Thank you to everyone who applied to our mentor/mentee program! We will be releasing updates on that very soon so keep a look out for that.

We hope to see everyone at our meeting this week!

TIME: Thursday, November 1st,  5-5:50 pm
LOCATION: Ackerman Viewpoint Conference Room

WEBSITE: https://uclappa.com/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/98119560229/

Hi everyone!

I hope everyone had a great weekend!
This week we will be having a representative from Kaplan to speak about the journey to the MCAT + MCAT services offered by Kaplan. Please come out to get a lot of information and come with any questions that you may also have about the MCAT!!

ALSO,

We are excited to announce that we will be starting up our mentorship program again this year!!
We will pair you with a mentor based on your answers from the application. Depending on how many mentors apply, it will be about 1 mentor to 2 or 3 mentees.

Mentee Application: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJecBm1cgnKSTrLd3bGsgG6h-IZ–i-FMYogX2iprtjaBRWQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Mentor Application:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTMoN3eP6CGIPJdz1AglQ-kR9gzxU9Wnzy96GZd6G2HVjABw/viewform?usp=sf_link

We HIGHLY encourage upperclassmen to apply so that there can be a more one on one interaction with the lowerclassmen. However, we also encourage anyone to apply to be a mentee as this would be a great opportunity to receive guidance and help from someone who has more experience.

Our meeting will be at the same time and location as week 1.

TIME: Thursday, October 18th, 5-5:50 pm
LOCATION: Ackerman Viewpoint Conference Room

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email us at premedpa@gmail.com.

WEBSITE: https://uclappa.com/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/98119560229/

Hi everyone!

I hope everyone had a great weekend!
This week we will be having a representative from Kaplan to speak about the journey to the MCAT + MCAT services offered by Kaplan. Please come out to get a lot of information and come with any questions that you may also have about the MCAT!!

ALSO,

We are excited to announce that we will be starting up our mentorship program again this year!!
We will pair you with a mentor based on your answers from the application. Depending on how many mentors apply, it will be about 1 mentor to 2 or 3 mentees.

Mentee Application: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJecBm1cgnKSTrLd3bGsgG6h-IZ–i-FMYogX2iprtjaBRWQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Mentor Application:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTMoN3eP6CGIPJdz1AglQ-kR9gzxU9Wnzy96GZd6G2HVjABw/viewform?usp=sf_link

We HIGHLY encourage upperclassmen to apply so that there can be a more one on one interaction with the lowerclassmen. However, we also encourage anyone to apply to be a mentee as this would be a great opportunity to receive guidance and help from someone who has more experience.

Our meeting will be at the same time and location as week 1.

TIME: Thursday, October 18th, 5-5:50 pm
LOCATION: Ackerman Viewpoint Conference Room

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email us at premedpa@gmail.com.

WEBSITE: https://uclappa.com/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/98119560229/

Hey Bruins,

I hope everyone made it through week 1!

This week we will be having our first guest speaker of the year, Aram Namavar. Aram is a former president and advisor of PPA  and a current 4th-year medical student entering into internal medicine. He will be speaking about his medical journey in addition to giving us any tips/advice that he can! So with that being said, come with any questions that you may have for him or anything about the pre-med journey!!!

****IMPORTANT****
This week’s meeting will be in a different room and time. We will still have the meeting on Thursday however, the new meeting time is 6-6:50 pm and it will be taking place at CHS 13-105.

If you do not know where this is located, meet us in front of Young Hall by the steps at 5:40 pm.

We hope to see everyone there to take advantage of this great opportunity to learn from someone who was once a part of PPA!!

TIME: Thursday, October 11th, 6-6:50 pm
LOCATION: CHS 13-105

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email us at premedpa@gmail.com.

WEBSITE: https://uclappa.com/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/98119560229/

Hello Bruins!!

Welcome back, we hope you all had a great summer!!

We are so excited to see everyone again, as well as to meet everyone who is new.
We have many exciting meetings and opportunities for everyone this year!!

1. Care Extenders: As a volunteer, you are placed behind-the-scenes of the Ronald Reagan Medical Center and/or the Santa Monica Hospital, in which you have the opportunity to shadow doctors, nurses, and care partners, as well as observe medical procedures ranging from general caretaking to IV line management to even live births or surgeries! If you’re interested, please visit uclahealth.org/careextender for more information and to sign-up for the next upcoming rotation.

2. Emergency Medicine Reseach Associates offers you with on-going clinical research at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center. With studies spanning emergency medicine, trauma/surgery, and medical/critical care, their program offers exposure to a multitude of specialties and allows members to better understand the role of research in medicine. EMRA recruitment page: https://emra.dgsom.ucla.edu/pages/recruitment

Don’t miss our meetings starting WEEK ONE for even more great opportunities!!

TIME: Thursday, October 4th, 5 – 5:50 pm
LOCATION: Ackerman Viewpoint Conference Room

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email us at premedpa@gmail.com.

WEBSITE: https://uclappa.com/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/98119560229/

Hey everyone!

This year we will be having no more meetings. *sad face*

We hope that everyone enjoyed all the meetings, speakers, and opportunities that we provided! Next year we hope to continue to bring lots of more exciting things for you guys!

We will send updates on the meetings for next year right before the start of Fall quarter so be on the lookout for that.

Good luck to everyone on finals, study hard and have an awesome summer!!!

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email us at premedpa@gmail.com.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/98119560229/

Hey Bruins!!

Happy week 8 !

To relieve some stress this week, we have decided to have a social at Yogurtland!

It will take place this Thursday and we will be meeting at the Bruin bear at 5 pm.
Come out and get to know some other people in PPA and enjoy a little break from studying!

Also, last week’s powerpoint is attached here in case anyone wants to go over it in a little more detail.

Hope to see everyone there!!!

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email us at premedpa@gmail.com.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/98119560229/