Undergraduate Medical Education

Current Sessions:

• Introduction to Clinical Medicine - 1st & 2nd year
  
• Social and Behavioral Sciences - 1st year
  
• Primary Care Clerkship - 3rd year
  
• Medicine Clerkship (Hospice) - 3rd year
  
• Clinical Practice Exam (CPX) - 4th year
  

There are two milestone clinical assessment programs that take place in UGME, the Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE) and the Clinical Practice Exam (CPX).

• OSCE takes place in the 2nd year to assess the skills learned in the ICM course.
  
• CPX takes place at the beginning of 4th year and provides the students the opportunity to encounter 8 different cases and they are assessed on their ability to establish a relationship of trust, take a focused medical history, perform a focused physical exam and educate the patient about their own care. Students must pass the CPX in order to graduate.
  

Graduate Medical Education

• Clinical Practice Exercise (CPE) - Residents and Fellows (Reproductive Medicine, Hospice, Family Medicine, and Preventative Medicine)
  

Continuing Medical Education

• Spirituality in Medicine
• Quality Improvement in Correctional Medicine - this was an assessment of all prison doctors in the State of California after the prisoners won a lawsuit against the state of California Prison system