Google Glass – Through the Eyes of the Patient On February 27-28, 2017, all first-year medical students participated in the first-ever Kindness/Empathy Clinical Experience. During these sessions in the Clinical Skills Center, students rotated through cases that were designed to help them practice their kindness and empathy skills as part of the innovative kindness curriculum Read More…

Reminder: 2017 Med iBookJam Kicks-off Tomorrow The Med iBookJam starts tomorrow, March 1, 2017! The kick-off event will run from 4 – 5 p.m. in Conference Room A1000 in the Medical Education Building in Irvine. You can also join us from UCIMC (Orange) via video conference in Bldg. 22A, room 2112. It’s not too late Read More…

Updates to the Poll Everywhere Audience Response Tool For the first time since 2007, Poll Everywhere has completely redesigned its audience response tool. Changes to the tool include: • A straightforward interface to creating different types of polls • A preview of your poll in Powerpoint and Keynote so that there is no longer the Read More…

2017 Med iBookJam Competition The iMedEd Initiative is excited to announce the third Med iBookJam competition to be held from March 1-10, 2017. What is an iBook? An iBook is a multi-touch digital book that can provide an interactive learning experience on Macs and iOS devices such as iPads and iPhones. What is the Med Read More…

2017 WGEA/WGSA/WOSR Regional Meeting The AAMC regional meeting of the Western Group on Educational Affairs (WGEA), Western Group on Student Affairs WGSA) and the Western Organization of Student Representatives (WOSR) will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah from Feb. 25 – 28, 2017. The theme of this year’s conference is “The Val “U” in Read More…

LCME Accreditation Site Visit Jan. 29 – Feb. 1, 2017 The School of Medicine will undergo a site visit by an accreditation team from Jan. 29 – Feb. 1, 2017 to ensure that our school is in compliance with standards set forth by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the accrediting body for U.S. Read More…

School of Medicine Program Objectives The School of Medicine’s academic mission is defined by 19 program objectives. These program objectives are organized around four core competencies that prepare UC Irvine graduates to be KNOWLEDGABLE, SKILLFUL, ALTRUISTIC and DUTIFUL. Further, these program objectives drive the learning objectives of each core course and clerkship across the four Read More…

Happy 2017! zotAlert – Emergency Alert System The UC Irvine campus has implemented zotALERT, an emergency alert system that uses cell phone text messaging to quickly notify the UC Irvine community with emergency and safety related information. This system is not used for routine announcements and complements the ZotMail email notification which is a mandatory element of campus Read More…