For Healthcare Professionals

Physician Referral Services Our partnership with health professionals in the community is key to our success at UCLA Health System. It is our goal to assist you with referring a patient to UCLA and getting access to our continuing medical education program. Registered nurses and referral coordinators are available to assist referring physicians and case managers access services at UCLA Health System through the toll-free UCLA Physician Referral Service phone line (1-800-UCLA-MD1). Speak with a registered nurse. Doctors and nurses can speak directly with our physician referral nurses for medical related questions.  Or, send an email to access@mednet.ucla.edu and our referral nurses will respond. Quick turn around time. When doctors fax a patient referral to (310) 301-5391, the referral coordinators will call your patient the same day or by the following morning to coordinate a referral. We help your patients get started. Referral coordinators assist your patients in obtaining a UCLA identification number - the crucial first step in accessing care. We keep our referring physicians informed. We send referring physicians a follow-up letter to let them know we successfully contacted their patient. And, we send a follow-up letter to patients. After we have spoken to your patient, we send them helpful instructions. If you are a referring physician and would like to add or update your information in our database, please contact Referring Physician Database Support by email at RPDS@mednet.ucla.edu.    Continuing Medical Education The mission of the Office of CME is to support the continuing education needs of community practitioners in all areas of clinical practice and surgery by providing interactive state-of-the-art programs which are focused on the improvement of the quality of patient care.	Publications for Physicians UCLA Clinical Updates UCLA Pediatric Update UCLA Physicians Update UCLA Medicine Magazine Proceedings of UCLA Healthcare
ALSO IN THIS SECTION... Ethics Center Lecture Series Provides education, service and research to enhance the practice of medicine for patients, families, professionals and the public. Visiting Speakers Program To help you meet your unique medical education needs, the UCLA Visiting Speakers Program (VSP) provides expert medical professionals to speak to groups throughout Southern California. More than 300 UCLA faculty participate in VSP, covering topics in vitually all specialties, including medical research and clinical advances. All speakers are faculty at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.