IN THE MEDIA: The Orange County Register took a look at how iPads are used in the iMedEd initiative of the UC Irvine School of Medicine, which Apple recently recognized as a distinguished program: UC Irvine’s pioneering medical school program put an iPad loaded with books, apps and notes covering the first year of curriculum [...]
UC Irvine School of Medicine will join almost 60 medical schools and institutions from across North America on Feb. 14 in taking a stand for humanism in medicine by observing the third Gold Humanism Honor Society Solidarity Day for Compassionate Patient Care. The event was begun after the 2011 shootings in Tucson to honor the [...]
The iMedEd Initiative – UC Irvine’s innovative medical education program based on iPad tablet computing – has been chosen as a 2012-13 Apple Distinguished Program. This year, iMedEd Initiative joins select programs that Apple is honoring nationwide as exemplary learning environments. The Apple Distinguished Program designation is reserved for programs that integrate Apple technology into [...]
The UC Irvine School of Medicine is proud to offer a menu of summer enrichment programs aimed at motivating talented high school students to pursue careers in healthcare and research. In addition to fostering the interest of youth in healthcare and science innovation, the programs empower medical students and pre-professional students who are accepted as [...]
UC Irvine gerontologist Kerry Burnight, PhD, discusses elder abuse and prevention on the January 8, 2013, edition of the Dr. Phil show, airing on CBS. The program, which calls elder abuse a hidden problem, cites statistics showing that more than five million older Americans experience abuse or neglect annually in the United States. It also [...]
Kristi L. Koenig, MD, has been appointed to the Commission on Emergency Medical Services by California Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez. Koenig fills an unexpired term and will serve through Jan. 1, 2013. Koenig is a professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, Irvine and is director of UC Irvine’s Center for Disaster [...]
When Kiah Bertoglio was helping arrange UC Irvine’s UltraFest 2012, she figured that about 30 medical students — 40 tops — would come to learn how to use portable, hand-held ultrasound devices to peer into the human body in a way they’d never done before. Imagine her surprise when more than 200 medical, osteopathic and [...]
The Orange County Women’s Health Project is holding its first Women’s Health Policy Summit at UC Irvine on Tuesday, May 15, to identify needs and priorities related to women’s health issues in the nation’s sixth-largest county. The event will unite diverse groups, people to determine local needs and priorities. The event will take place at the Student [...]
Residents of nursing homes are among those most susceptible to elder abuse and neglect. Now, experts from UC Irvine’s Program in Geriatrics will provide training and support in Orange County nursing homes under the settlement terms of a class-action lawsuit alleging inadequate staffing at 22 long-term-care facilities in California. Training will be handled by UC [...]
IN THE NEWS: UC Irvine’s Dr. Manuel Porto addressed the the 22nd annual Perinatal Symposium organized by Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center’s Women’s and Children’s Services at the Sheraton Fairplex Conference Center, according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune: For some time, health care professionals have known it’s best to allow a fetus to develop [...]