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/

Hey Bruins!

Happy week 7!!

This week we will be having another speaker, Dr. Shefizadeh! He is a former president of PPA and he is also a former UCLA medical student and has been part of the admissions committee!
He will be giving a presentation on some tips and tricks about getting into medical school. But don’t hesitate to come with questions for Dr. Shefizadeh!

In addition, Dr. Shefizadeh started TEB Academy, a place where he and other working healthcare executives, physicians, and scientists work with students to help them get into medical, dental, and pharmacy school.

If you guys have any questions for him or about TEB Academy,
Dr. Shefizadeh’s email is:
shefizadeh@TEBandBeyond.com

Hope to see you all there!
And good luck on midterms, you got this!!

TIME: Thursday, May 17, 2018
LOCATION: Ackerman 2412

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

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

Hey Bruins!

Thank you to everyone who came out last week to our weekly meeting! Everyone had great questions for Dr. Andrew Charles. If you guys have any other questions for him you can reach him at acharles@ucla.edu.

As for this week, we will be having Dr. Jason Lee from the UCLA anesthesiology department (https://www.uclahealth.org/jason-s-lee). Similiar to last week he will mostly be talking about his specialty and medicine in general. Everyone will have the opportunity to ask questions again!! Come out and take advantage of yet another AWESOME opportunity! 🙂

TIME: Thursday, May 10th, 2018
5:00 to 6:00 pm
LOCATION: Ackerman 2412

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

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