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A collaboration among faculty, residents, students, and volunteers, UCSF's Community Dental Clinic has been working to improve the health of San Francisco's homeless population for the past decade. The philosophy of the Community Dental Clinic is to motivate patients to seek healthcare and to prevent dental disease through education and preventive dentistry. CDC is guided by three mutually supportive sets of aspirations: (1) For the clients- to provide oral health education and treatment. To achieve a positive impact on the lives of our patients; (2) For the students- to create a setting in which students can learn, teach, and practice clinical skills while cultivating sensitivity and comfort in interactions with the underserved population; and (3) For the Community- To use the Dental Clinic as a forum for education and health care service. To promote advocacy for the needs of the homeless population. Ultimately, we hope this experience will broaden our vision and make us more able and compassionate health care providers for any population we choose to serve.

Asian Network Hospice is seeking volunteers! We provide culturally sensitive, home health and end of life care to communities throughout the Bay Area. Volunteers primarily help with administrative support and patient appreciation projects. Volunteers may also be considered for the opportunity to socialize with patients. It is a great opportunity to support your local community, while gaining experience. Every year, college scholarships are also awarded to select volunteers.

Inside UCSF is an annual outreach program geared towards students at two- and four-year degree schools who are interested in pursuing careers in health and science. This interprofessional opportunity is designed to: introduce students to a specific health science career path; provide opportunities to meet with students and faculty; and offer a chance to become inspired about future career possibilities.

The UCSF School of Medicine offers a comprehensive, structured post baccalaureate graduate certificate program designed for individuals who have been unsuccessful in gaining admission to medical school or who have completed the required undergraduate course work but feel they need more background before initiating the medical school application process. We are interested in individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds or underserved communities. The UCSF program is designed to help individuals increase their chances of gaining admission to medical school by offering intensive MCAT review, assistance with medical school application preparation, science courses at UC Berkeley Extension, seminars on health care issues in underserved communities, and academic skills workshops.

The Child Life Department at the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital offers practicum and internship programs to students interested in the field of child life and child development careers. The Child Life Internship Program is open to students considering careers in the child life profession. Students must have completed significant academic work in child development or child life studies in a bachelor or master degree program. Students also must have documented experience working or volunteering with children in a hospital under supervision of a child life specialist (minimum of 100 hours). This is a 15-week internship with two full rotations in different units and one week in pediatric prepare program working with a certified child life specialist (CCLS). A primary supervisor, assigned to each intern, will meet with you once a week to discuss goals, journal entries, his or her case study, and specific rotations and interventions. During your internship, you will focus on therapeutic play and child development in our programming spaces. Interns also work at bedside with a CCLS in preparation, procedural support and charting. The Child Life Practicum Program is open to college students enrolled in child development courses. This is a 12-week program that offers child development students the opportunity to interact with children in our playroom. Students are offered several learning opportunities to better understand the impact of hospitalization on child development.

The University of California at San Francisco with Kaiser Permanente, Northern California will offer summer research internships to Undergraduates at UC Berkeley who will still be enrolled after the program in women's health, pediatrics, family and community medicine, and internal medicine to undergraduate students enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley who are planning to attend medical school after graduation, and who have an interest in women's health, pediatrics, or primary care. Students have to be enrolled in the fall of 2014 at UC Berkeley as an undergraduate. Seniors graduating in Spring 2015 are not eligible to apply.

If you're looking for an exciting career in health sciences, join us for Pharmacy Information Day to learn more about a career in pharmacy. This special program will help you discover pharmacy as a profession and learn about the training you need to succeed in this well-respected, highly-compensated health care field. You'll learn about the unique role of pharmacists in health care, the many options for career specialization, and the workforce demand for pharmacy professionals. Students and faculty will share their insights on the doctor of pharmacy program at UCSF - the curriculum, admissions requirements, and preparation for the field of pharmacy.

If you're looking for an exciting career in health sciences, join us for Pharmacy Information Day to learn more about a career in pharmacy. This special program will help you discover pharmacy as a profession and learn about the training you need to succeed in this well-respected, highly-compensated health care field. You'll learn about the unique role of pharmacists in health care, the many options for career specialization, and the workforce demand for pharmacy professionals. Students and faculty will share their insights on the doctor of pharmacy program at UCSF - the curriculum, admissions requirements, and preparation for the field of pharmacy.

The Interprofessional Health Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program is a year-long, structured program designed for those who have completed the required undergraduate coursework but feel they need a stronger academic foundation to be more competitive in applying to pharmacy school. Program applicants must have been previously unsuccessful in gaining admission to the UCSF School of Pharmacy or any other pharmacy school. We are especially interested in individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, underserved communities, and from groups traditionally underrepresented in the pharmacy profession.

Our mission is to provide access to quality health care for underserved people of California. This is accomplished by linking academic training programs with training sites in urban and rural underserved areas of the state such as community clinics and health centers, hospitals and other community based sites. The California AHEC has 13 centers, each responsible for a geographic service area in an urban or rural part of the state. Each center develops its own programs based on the needs of their service area and include continuing education for health professionals and staff working in underserved communities; rotations and other community experiences for health professions students and residents and youth health careers programs for underrepresented minority and other disadvantaged K-14 students. Each of these programs seeks to train future HPs, recruit and retain health professionals for community clinics and health centers and other types of sites that provide medical/dental and behavioral health services to the underserved populations of CA.