<p>I'm a second year pre-Med student at UCLA, and I just wanted to introduce to you the ARC Medical Program, a respected and competitive program in the Medical Center and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Our program's mission is to implement changes in the medical center to help improve overall patient experience. We will be evaluating residents from the School of Medicine. Your task will require 90% Patient Interaction. There are 4 units to work in, you choose one: Surgery, Medicine, Pediatrics, and OB/GYN. You will definitely make a difference to the patients you talk to through your service.</p>
<p>This project is to help both the school of medicine and the med center. for 2007, UCLA Med Center ranks #1 West of the Mississippi for 17 consecutive years, and #5 in the nation! You will be volunteering with several awesome doctors, nurses, CPs,and faculties in the country!</p>
<p>You may also become an intern after enough experience. As an intern, you will be working for an executive doctor in the school of medicine. You will get anything you need for your task to be completed.</p>
<p>For more information on what we do and who we are, please visit our website at Welcome to the ARC UCLA Website. and/or if you have questions/comments/concerns, email ARC admissions at: <a href="mailto:arcadmissions.ucla@gmail.com">arcadmissions.ucla@gmail.com</a>. Our applications will be due at the end of August and I encourage anyone interested in the field of medicine to apply!</p>
<p>And don't forget to join our facebook group!
ARC Program- David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA</p>
<p>You (being random pre-med students with medical experience = nil) will be evaluating residents (i.e. doctors)?? Good luck with that.</p>
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<p>Why do you guys use the term “Intern” in a medical setting at a school of medicine, where it historically is reserved for physicians in their first year of graduate training?</p>
<p>lol nodnarb you havent even experienced ucla yet, so hush. when you get here, you will realize that there are tons of seemingly “interesting” volunteering positions out there that are really just ways to use and exploit students.</p>
<p>even though its a hospital setting, ARC would qualify as non-clinical volunteering. why not help out the homeless or raise some money for AIDS if you want to do some non-clinical volunteering?</p>
<p>^It all depends on your interests. If you happen to like ARC’s interviews, then go for it and join, become an intern, etc. If you want to raise money for AIDS, go do that. If you want to help the homeless, you can join UCLA’s Mobile Clinic project. </p>
<p>I’d argue that ARC is a “clinical” setting because you are interacting with patients, but make sure to get both clinical and non-clinical (i.e. public health) experience.</p>
<p>clinical volunteering experiences are ones that give you insight into the medical profession while interacting with patients. ARC only has half of that. do gift shop volunteers get clinical experience when patients come in to buy snickers?</p>
<p>zzzboy, have you joined ARC? I’m guessing not. Therefore you know no more about it than I do and have not the right to presume to know more than I do about it. If a volunteer position looks interesting, even after thorough review of the brochures and papers and websites about it, then you will likely be able to make it look like an interesting volunteering position on your application to med school or grad school. Isn’t every volunteering organization there to “use” people to get something done? I think so. </p>
<p>Volunteering is volunteering and if you would enjoy, or just tolerate, interviewing patients to help evaluate resident physicians (which is a task that needs to be done), then it is no less or worse a position than any other and certainly a useful learning experience. You simply tried to invalidate what I said on the presumption that you know more about it than I do which is false. Being a current UCLA student doesn’t imbue you with the knowledge of all volunteer positions and my being an incoming freshman doesn’t mean I am incapable of evaluating the potential value of a certain volunteer position.</p>
<p>(And I don’t mean this to be a vengeful attack on you, I just want to give my perspective.)</p>
<p>no, youre wrong because i know people that have been in the program or have friends that were in it.</p>
<p>ARC, if you somehow count it as clinical, would be weak in that category. moreover, it would be weak in the non-clinical volunteering category. i mean, i guess you could do it if it “interests” you (bullsht), but you wouldnt get much out of it.</p>
<p>nodbarb, dont have such an optimistic view of hte world all the time.</p>
<p>how can you call it “a useful and helpful learning experience” without even seeing anything in the eyes of a UCLA student. are you tryin to kiss UCLA_ARC’s azz in hopes that itll help you get in to the program, lol.</p>
<p>wait till you get here, you wont be enthusiastic about this or most other things, i promise you</p>
<p>My view of the world is far from optimistic.</p>
<p>I can call it a “useful and helpful learning experience” simply because it an experience, you will likely learn from it, and it’s useful and helpful because it is something to spice up an application with (assuming you have some interest in the volunteer work). There are likely “more useful and helpful” volunteer positions out there, but that doesn’t mean ARC isn’t one. Everything is relative, everything is a shade of gray. And almost every experience can be useful and helpful in some way.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to kiss UCLA_ARC’s azz in order to get into the program because I personally have little interest in the program. Nor would such a tactic be of any use.</p>
<p>I’m not being enthusiastic, look at my original point. All I said was that the position may be boring, but because you’re doing something new and helping improve the quality of health care at UCLA medical center, you’re doing something that will be useful and helpful to yourself and the UCLA medical center. And I still stand by that point. What I originally posted was not intended to have some sort of “enthusiasm” about it. I was not endorsing ARC or saying it was a good idea to join. I just made a plain and simple point about it’s usefulness and helpfulness which may or may not be important to the individual considering joining such a program. And for some reason you guys have a really hard time accepting the idea that volunteering is volunteering, whether it’s boring or not. The bottom line is you’re helping someone or some group/organization/institution achieve something of value. And because of that, you’re participation is inherently useful and helpful to the organization and you will almost invariably learn something new which is useful and helpful to yourself.</p>
<p>zzboy, are all your friends in every program at ucla lol. “I know peers sucks, my roomate complained. i know arc is boring because i have friends in the program.” join a program, then decide whether it sucks.</p>
<p>besides that, it sounds like a way to get some experience. Can anyone who was IN the program give some insight?</p>
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