PRE-HEALTH AND MENTORSHIP
While we spend a lot of time assisting the local community around UCLA, PCH also places a vested interest in the welfare of its members! For students who are interested in the health field, PCH offers many opportunities to receive advice on future careers, network with professionals, graduate students and alumni, and receive help with majors and academic classes at UCLA. Members will also be able to interact with other undergraduate students of similar interests and majors within PCH and get the inside scoop on classes, professors, tests and books.
Mentorship ProgramFor the past three years, PHAM has been hosting two mentorship programs: an internal mentorship program with PCH staff members and general members, and an external mentorship program in collaboration with Filipino Americans in Medicine (FAIM) at UCLA DGSOM in which PCH members are paired with FAIM medical students, residents, fellows, or physicians. Our goal for both mentorship programs is to cultivate an uplifting pre-health community for our general members -- one that they can always come to for academic, social, and professional support. Both mentorship programs offer general members an opportunity to be paired with someone with a similar major, extracurricular activities, background, and/or professional interests. For our PCH and FAIM mentors, having a PCH mentee is a rewarding and fulfilling experience as they are able to share their wealth of knowledge and wisdom from their experiences, ultimately making a positive impact on the college and life experience of prospective mentees. We hope that the mentor-mentee pairs that arise from both mentorship programs are long-lasting and worthwhile.
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Winter Conference
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Quarterly Panels
PHAM hosts one big event every quarter through its Fall Panel, Winter Conference, and Spring Panel events. Although these events were done in-person in previous years, PHAM hosted these events virtually for the 2020-2021 academic year. For Fall 2020, we held a virtual health graduate student panel featuring several health graduate students from different fields to provide PCH general members exposure to these fields. This rotation-style panel provided attendees an opportunity to ask questions directly to each panelist, and to have more organic conversations with them as they try to discover more about the panelist's fields. For Winter 2021, PHAM worked in collaboration with FAIM to host our annual FAIM Winter Conference, where medical students and physicians from David Geffen School of Medicine come in to share what they learn in medical school to our general members. In this conference, they offered Personal Statement and Resume Review workshops, a clinical workshop, and an interview workshop. Lastly, for Spring 2021, PHAM reached out to our extensive alumni list to invite them as our Spring panelists. In this event, we were honored to hear alumni share how their experiences as PCH members helped them get into the fields they are currently in. For the 2021-2022 academic year, we hope to hold our quarterly events in-person! For Fall 2021, PHAM is hosting an in-person Fall Panel that aims to spotlight health graduate students on their amazing achievements and experiences from their respective fields in healthcare. For Winter Conference, PHAM will continue collaborating with FAIM by providing workshops giving undergraduates a taste of what medical students learn in medical school as well as interview and resume workshops to help undergraduates better prepare for applying to medical school. For Spring Panel, we will showcase admissions staff from medical schools and other health graduate schools that can shed light on the rigor of applying to programs and what to expect. |
PHAM Coffee Hours
Due to the 2020-2021 academic year being primarily remote, PHAM hosted a series of Coffee Hours over summer to continue connecting with our general members. For the rest of the academic year, we will be hosting bi-weekly Coffee Hours (date and time TBD) to serve as a space for general and staff members to chat with each other about UCLA/pre-health student life. Sign up for the newsletter and our GroupMe to get notified whenever we host one!
Due to the 2020-2021 academic year being primarily remote, PHAM hosted a series of Coffee Hours over summer to continue connecting with our general members. For the rest of the academic year, we will be hosting bi-weekly Coffee Hours (date and time TBD) to serve as a space for general and staff members to chat with each other about UCLA/pre-health student life. Sign up for the newsletter and our GroupMe to get notified whenever we host one!
