Office of Educational Affairs

Education | Research | Clinical Care | Service to Public
Health Sciences Complex | Biomedical Rearch Building
Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center | Berk Hall | UC Irvine Medical Center
UC Irvine Family Health Center-Santa Ana
UC Irvine Family Health Center-Anaheim
Affiliated Hospitals and Clinics | School of Medicine Alumni Relations

Education

The School of Medicine is committed to provide educational programs of the highest quality to medical students, M.D./Ph.D. and M.D./M.B.A. students, residents, fellows, allied health, graduate academic students, practicing physicians and other health care professionals. Educational programs are offered along the continuum of medical education with programs in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education. These programs emphasize the most current knowledge in the health sciences and reflect the changing practice of medicine. Further, the School of Medicine's educational programs are designed to stimulate life-long self-learning and critical inquiry and to exemplify those human values necessary to fulfill the professional commitments of a career in the health sciences.

Research

Excellence in research is an essential feature of the School of Medicine. Therefore, the College is committed to develop and maintain research programs in the health sciences which seek to advance basic scientific knowledge and the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human illness.

Clinical Care

Recognizing its responsibility to meet the educational needs of students and the diverse needs of the patient community, the School of Medicine is committed to programs of clinical excellence across the spectrum of patient care disciplines.

Service to the Public

As a publicly assisted institution, the School of Medicine is committed to serve the community as a vital resource of expertise and knowledge. The School further serves the public through the training of health professionals whose backgrounds reflect California's ethnic and cultural diversity and whose professional careers address California's health care needs.

Health Sciences Complex

The medical school facilities comprise a 121-acre site which has been designated the Health Sciences Complex. Twenty-nine acres have been developed to provide space for teaching, research, and patient care as well as offices for departmental administration.

The School's basic science instructional programs are located in modern, well-equipped, medical sciences buildings. These units provide space for first- and second-year classes, lecture halls, including, the Dr. S. Jerome and Judith D. Tamkin Student Lecture Hall, offices and laboratories for various basic and clinical departments, and a student center. Other buildings house the School's administration, laboratories, and student center.

In addition, the 40,000-square-foot Plumwood House is devoted to basic research in the fields of neurological disorders, diagnostic systems and reagents, and industrial bioreactors. In this facility, faculty from the Department of Biological Chemistry share laboratory space with corporate researchers.

Outpatient services are available on campus through the Louis A. and Helen C. Gottschalk Medical Plaza and the Beckman Laser Institute. The Plaza capitalizes upon the poad range of diagnostic and therapeutic programs of the School as well as the extensive clinical expertise of the faculty. The facility offers primary care and specialty services including: obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, dermatology, ophthalmology, cardiology, orthopedics, gastroenterology, and neurology. Special programs in diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, and inflammatory bowel diseases also are available. Also located in the Plaza is the Lon V. Smith Eye Clinic, which offers the latest in diagnostic health care for eye diseases, including computerized refraction analysis, glaucoma diagnosis, and ultrasound analysis of eye disorders.

Housing one of the world's leading programs in medical laser technology, the UC Irvine Beckman Laser Institute offers state-of-the-art treatment for cancer and dermatological conditions. The Institute specializes in the development and application of laser and other optical technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER

UC Irvine's Biomedical Research Center (pC) is a landmark public-private collaboration between UC Irvine and businesses involved in biomedical, biotechnological, and health care services. The Center will enable UC Irvine researchers and participating companies to work alongside one another, combining basic science, clinical study, and product development to find new approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of disease. The William J. Gillespie Neuroscience Research Facility, the first of several pC buildings, is the home of a core group of prominent scientists investigating the causes and cures for neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, and spinal cord injury. The second building, scheduled for completion in 2002, is the Robert R. Sprague Family Foundation Hall, where scientists will work to reveal the role of genetics in cancer treatment and prevention. The Dottie and George Hewitt Research Hall is scheduled to open in 2003 and will house investigators studying infectious disease and immunology.

CHAO FAMILY COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER

The Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute-designated facility in Orange County and one of only 57 such centers in the country. Overall, more than 100 faculty members at the Cancer Center are involved in seven major research programs including everything from basic research that looks at how cancer cells grow to bone marrow transplantation to stem-cell therapy, a new way of harvesting marrow. The 56,000-square-foot facility provides an ideal setting for the practice of all the basic and clinical subspecialities involved in adult and pediatric oncology, including the application of the latest techniques for diagnosis and management of patients with cancer.

BERK HALL

The School of Medicine recently opened a Student Training Center in Berk Hall. Offering state-of-the-art training, the center was developed to teach and assess the clinical skills of medical students, residents, M.D.s, and other health care professionals in an environment that simulates an actual clinical setting. Participants are monitored and videotaped to evaluate their clinical performance related to obtaining a medical history, conducting an appropriate physical examination, and developing treatment management plans. All clinical practice examinations (CPX) and other clinical assessments are also done here.

The Student Training Center is a 2,850-square-foot high-tech facility which incorporates the latest and best innovations in interactive medical instructional technology, as well as eight clinical examination rooms with video cameras, a video monitor control station, a clinical skills laboratory, faculty development conference areas, a computer learning laboratory, interactive learning technology including "HARVEY" and UMedic, a student lounge, and a separate waiting area for actual and standardized patients.

UCI MEDICAL CENTER

UC Irvine Medical Center, located in the City of Orange, is a 462-licensed- bed, comprehensive medical care center. It is the principal clinical facility of the School of Medicine operated by the University. The medical faculty of the School of Medicine, together with the medical resident-physician staff, provide the professional care. Services are provided in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, family medicine, dermatology, pathology, radiology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, ophthalmology, neurology, anesthesiology, orthopedics, geriatrics, oncology, neurosurgery, otolaryngology, and radiation oncology.

UC Irvine Medical Center also has cardiac, pediatric, neonatal, respiratory, burn medical-surgery, and neurosciences intensive care units and more than 90 specialty outpatient clinics. It is the designated countywide Level I trauma center.

UC Irvine FAMILY HEALTH CENTER-SANTA ANA

The UC Irvine Family Health Center-Santa Ana is a state-of-the-art primary care facility, conveniently located near the Santa Ana Civic Center. The Center has two missions--health care delivery and medical education.

As a community clinic, the Family Health Center's multilingual physicians and staff are committed to providing quality healthcare to patients, including the medically underserved. It provides primary care services to people of all ages including family medicine, preventive care for children and adults, and specialty care in pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology.

As an integral part of the UC Irvine School of Medicine, the Family Health Center provides educational and training opportunities for medical and nurse practitioner students, including the UC Irvine Family Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology residency training programs.

UC Irvine FAMILY HEALTH CENTER-ANAHEIM

The UC Irvine Family Health Center-Anaheim provides care for more than 20,000 outpatient visits annually and training programs for resident physicians in primary care, general internal medicine, and general and adolescent pediatrics. There are additional programs in gynecology, dermatology, general surgery, podiatry, neurology, ophthalmology, optometry, orthopedics, psychiatry, and multispecialty faculty practice. The Center provides training for medical students in their primary care, general pediatric, adolescent medicine, and geriatric medicine rotations and electives.

AFFILIATED HOSPITALS AND CLINICS

Additional major teaching and research programs of the School of Medicine are conducted at the Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center (LBVAMC) and at Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach. Other academic programs are conducted in affiliation with San Bernardino County Medical Center, Fairview Developmental Center (Costa Mesa), Kaiser Foundation Hospital (Anaheim, Bellflower, and Riverside), Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Metropolitan State Hospital (Norwalk), The City of Hope Medical Center (Duarte), Rancho Los Amigos Hospital (Downey), Western Medical Center (Tustin/Santa Ana), the Kern Medical Center (Bakersfield), Clínica Sierra Vista (Lamont), Presbyterian (Newport Beach), Fountain Valley Hospital and Medical Center, Children's Hospital of Orange County, and the Orange County Health Care Agency/Public Health Clinic.

School of Medicine Alumni Relations

The UC Irvine School of Medicine is an outgrowth of what began in 1896 as the Pacific College of Osteopathy (PSO). Some years later PSO became the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, which then became the California School of Medicine in 1962 and subsequently became part of the UC system in 1965. The Office of Alumni Relations provides programs and services for nearly 4,000 alumni of the College as well as for students. From financial support to Honor's Night awards, mentorship to reunions, the Office of Alumni Relations seeks to provide a cornerstone from which students and alumni can benefit from their relationships to one another and in so doing, strengthen the School of Medicine.

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