Family Medicine

Clerkship

Course Chairs:

Olivia Ishibashi MD, MPH
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Thalia Nguyen MD
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Course Coordinator:

Rayan Baig
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Course Description

The goal of this clerkship is for the students to learn family-centered primary health care that is humanistic, comprehensive, cost-effective, continuous, and sensitive to psychosocial, ethical, and financial issues. Because family physicians take care of families, the clerkship will include family dynamics, the family's influence on health, and the impact of illness on the family. Our clerkship provides an opportunity for students to learn about the diagnosis and management of patients with common problems. Students will be expected to learn a comprehensive approach to the patient with these problems that entails consideration of etiology, incidence, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, course, prognosis, treatment, and appropriate aspects of patient education, disease prevention, and health promotion. Students should develop sensitivity to social, familial, ethical, legal, cultural, and economic issues encountered in an ambulatory setting.

Clerkship sites and directors

  • Azusa FMHQ (Shariar Borbor, M.D.)
  • Glendale Adventist Health (Jolie Cooperman, M.D.)
  • Harbor/UCLA Medical Center (Gilberto Granados, M.D.)
  • Kaiser Fontana (Cynthia Freel, M.D. and Kamal Kejriwal M.D.)
  • Kaiser Sunset (Karen Martinez, M.D.)
  • Kaiser Woodland Hills (Kathleen Dor, M.D.)
  • Long Beach Memorial Hospital (Odrin Castillo, M.D.)
  • Mission Santo Nino Health Center (Parastou Farhadian, M.D.)
  • Mid Valley Family Health Center (Anita Wong, M.D.)
  • Mid Valley Urgent Care Center (Evan Martin, M.D. and Laura Doan, M.D.)
  • MLK Community Hospital (Adan Romero, M.D.)
  • Northridge Family Practice Center (Tara Sarabakhsh, M.D.)
  • Oscar Romero Clinics (Don Garcia, M.D.)
  • Pomona Valley Medical Center (Allan Cabral, M.D.)
  • UCLA Health Ocean Park/Wilshire/Brighton (Monica Plesa, M.D., Theresa Poulos, M.D., and Pauline Nguyen, M.D.)
  • UCLA Health Central Coast (Douglas Wilson, M.D. and Melody Fulton, M.D.)
  • UCLA Health Malibu (Ashley Bateman, M.D.)
  • UCLA Health Rolling Hills/Palos Verdes (Kimngan Nguyen, M.D.)
  • UCLA Health Santa Monica (Spencer McCaffrey, M.D.)
  • UCLA Health Toluca Lake (Jason F Lee, M.D.)
  • UCLA Health Westlake Village/Thousand Oaks (Nazanin Gunn, M.D.)
  • Venice Family Clinic (Cesar Barba, M.D.)

For more information, please contact the course coordinator.