Loma Linda University (School of Medicine)

Since opening in 1909, Loma Linda University's School of Medicine has been training skilled medical professionals with a commitment to Christian service. The school has always endeavored to combine the best medical science with caring, Christian compassion. Loma Linda students are trained in a context emphasizing the patient's needs and preventive care to offset future disease.

Medical students spend the first two years studying a heavy science curriculum balanced by class work in human behavior, religion, and ethics. As juniors, students spend time in clinical rotations and instruction in family medicine, gynecology and obstetrics, medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, radiology, and surgery. Seniors rotate through advanced training in medicine and surgery and finish their degree with four months of electives.

Loma Linda medical students have the unique opportunity to utilize their skills in human betterment. Most medical students participate in two very popular University programs: Social Action Community Health System and Students for International Mission Service. In each they help deliver medical care to lower-income people and others who have no access to basic medical care.

The mission of the School of Medicine is to continue the healing and teaching ministry of Jesus Christ, “To make man whole.”

Our overriding purpose is to foster the formation of Christian physicians, providing whole-person care to individuals, families, and communities. Fulfilling this responsibility requires:

EDUCATION : Creating an environment in which medical students, graduate students, and residents will acquire the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes appropriate to Christian health professionals and scholars.

RESEARCH : Cultivating a creative environment for inquiry and discovery of new routes to wholeness through basic and clinical research.

SERVICE : Providing timely access to cost-effective, comprehensive, whole-person care for all patients, regardless of their circumstances or status.

DEVELOPING THE WHOLE PERSON : Affirming the Christian view of wholeness—which recognizes that the needs of patients go beyond the healing of the body, and that the development of students involves more than the training of the mind; promoting physical, intellectual, social, and spiritual growth in our faculty and our students; and transforming our daily activities into personal ministries.

REACHING THE WORLD : Providing whole-person care wherever the opportunity arises; participating with the world community in the provision of local medical education; providing international physicians and scientists the opportunities for professional interaction and enrichment; sharing the good news of a loving God as demonstrated by the life and teachings of Jesus Christ—these are the goals of the students, faculty, and graduates of the School of Medicine.

Clinical instruction takes place primarily at Loma Linda University Medical Center, which includes Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital; and at Loma Linda University Community Hospital, Faculty Medical Offices (FMO), Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Medical Center, Riverside County Regional Medical Center, and Loma Linda University Behavioral Medicine Center. Also utilized are San Bernardino County General Hospital, Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Glendale Adventist Medical Center, and White Memorial Medical Center.

Loma Linda University School of Medicine was established to provide education of future physicians in an atmosphere in which basic Christian values are honored. The rigorous academic expectations of the institution are consistent with the example of personal excellence embodied in the Christian tradition. Although no religious test is applied, students are expected to respect the standards and ideals of this church-related University. Application to and enrollment in the University constitute the student’s commitment to honor and abide by the academic, nonacademic, and social practices, policies, and regulations of the University. These policies are found in BULLETINS, handbooks, announcements, and other published materials. In addition, students
are expected to display conduct that is mature and compatible with the University’s function as an institution of higher learning and the University’s sponsorship by the Seventhday Adventist Church.

Loma Linda University was established to provide education in a distinctively Christian environment. Students are expected to respect the standards and ideals of the Seventh-day Adventist church. Prospective students have the freedom to choose or reject University or School standards, but the decision must be made before enrollment.
Application to and enrollment in the University constitute the student’s commitment to honor and abide by the academic and social practices and regulations stated in announcements, bulletins, handbooks, and other printed materials; and to maintain a manner that is mature and compatible with the University’s function as an institution of higher learning.

---

School of Medicine Medical School Location

School of Medicine Courses

FRESHMAN YEAR COURSES :

* Anatomy/embryology : Regional systemic study of the human body, with correlation to radiology and clinical medicine. Survey of human embryonic development.
Consideration given to origins of common birth defects.

* Biochemistry/ molecular biology/ genetics : Comprehensive sequence in biochemistry and molecular biology establishes the biochemical basis for cell structure, emphasizes an integrated approach to the understanding of cellular metabolism, provides a
biochemical/genetic/molecular basis for understanding
disease, and examines the mechanisms for genetic
information flow in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.

* Cell structure and function : Fully integrated, comprehensive course that develops knowledge and skills relating normal microscopic and submicroscopic anatomy to cellular biology, cellular physiology, and immunology. General pathology––the common thread for the course––familiarizes students with morphologic and functional changes affecting cells exposed to a variety of normal and, to a lesser extent, abnormal environments.

* Understanding your patient : Taught in the fall of the freshman year, this lecture course covers subjects vital to providing compassionate, perceptive medical care. Topics include doctor/patient communication, ethnic and cultural issues, identifying abuse, stages of life, dying and palliative care, sexuality, and understanding the determinants of personality.

* Evidence-based medicine and information sciences : Designed for freshman medical students. Introduces
basic concepts of evidence-based medicine to help facilitate lifelong, self-directed learning. Describes the challenges of the information needs of the twenty-first century physician. Teaches a process by which students can efficiently and effectively acquire the answers to their clinical questions and apply them to the care of the patients they see. Teaching methodologies include large-group didactic presentations; small-group discussions; and self-study, on-line exercises. Sets the foundation for an ongoing, lifelong learning process.

* Neuroscience : Fundamentals of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology integrated in a clinical context with principles of the human nervous system.

SOPHOMORE YEAR COURSES :

* Microbiology : Systematic study of microorganisms of medical importance, pathogenic mechanisms, host-parasite relationships, and methods of identification.

* Pharmacology : Principles of drug action, drug receptors, absorption and fate of drugs, drug toxicity, and drug development. Systematic consideration of the pharmacology and therapeutic value of the drugs used in medicine. Clinical case conferences, demonstrations, simulations, and laboratory exercises illustrating the uses and effects of drugs in humans or animals.

* Physiology : Presentation of normal functions of the various systems of the human body, designed to provide a proper understanding of mechanisms of disease, with their concomitant pathophysiology. Lecture, audiovisual demonstrations, computer models, and limited animal studies provide knowledge of the physiological principles.

* Organ-systems pathology : Systematic review of diseases affecting each organ system. Etiology, pathogenesis, morphology, pathophysiology, and biologic behavior covered; as well as relevant laboratory medicine techniques. Correlation with concurrent courses in physiology, microbiology, and physical diagnosis.

JUNIOR YEAR COURSES :

* Pediatrics : An eight-week clerkship that addresses issues unique to childhood and adolescence by focusing on human development and by emphasizing the impact of family, community, and society on child health and wellbeing. Additional focus on the impact of disease and its treatment on the developing human; and emphasis on growth, development, principles of health supervision, and recognition of common health problems. Stresses the role of the pediatrician in prevention of disease and injury; and the importance of collaboration between the pediatrician, other health
professions, and the family.

* Gynecology and obstetrics : A six-week rotation that introduces students to women’s reproductive health. Provides broad exposure to women’s health, including a glimpse of what is involved in the specialty of obstetrics and gynecology.

* Family medicine : A four-week rotation in a family-practice clinical setting. Varied assignments may be with community physicians or in residency-based clinics. Emphasis on integrating biomedical, psychosocial, and spiritual issues; as well as appropriate preventive care. An OSCE given at the end of every twelve-week block, in conjunction with pediatrics.

* Psychiatry : Third-year, six-week psychiatry clerkship includes five weeks divided between two psychiatry treatment sites and one week at an addiction treatment site. These clerkship experiences offer broad and varied training in the treatment of psychiatric problems of adults and children. Students also participate in an
interactive case-based seminar series.

* Surgery : Twelve-week junior surgery is rotation. Includes one month of general surgery and rotations on: anesthesiology, emergency medicine, neurosurgery, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, orthopaedic surgery, plastic surgery, and urology.

* Medical ethics : Introductory study of Christian medical ethics, emphasizing personal integrity of the physician, the process of moral decision making, and ethical problems facing contemporary medicine, such as abortion and euthanasia.

* Orientation to clinical medicine : Pathophysiology and Applied Physical Diagnosis. Provides the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes necessary to facilitate a smooth transition from the preclinical to the clinical curriculum.

SENIOR YEAR COURSES :

* Subinternships in internal medicine or surgery or family medicine or pediatrics
* Intensive care/ emergency medicine, ambulatory care, and neurology.
* Electives.

Other translation schools in California

Loyola University Chicago (Stritch School of Medicine) FIRST AND SECOND YEARS Years one and two provide a combination of instruction in the basic sciences and in developing skills in communicating with... Address: 2160 South First Avenue

Western University of Health Sciences (College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific) The Curriculum at COMP is a four-year full-time academic and clinical program leading to the granting of the degree of Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine ... Address: 309 East Second Street/College Plaza, Pomona, California

University of California, Irvine (College of Medicine) FIRST YEAR The first year course begins with 4 supervised interviewing modules that progressively increase in diffic... Address: Medical Education Building 802