UCSF Class of 2011

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I need a welcome distraction to studying for exams, doing reports, and all that business necessary for graduating. With over 30 days left...SENIORITIS has hit to an extreme. I can't get myself to focus....anyone in the same boat....😴

PS- revisit was off the hook. You guys all rock. Can't wait to be reunited 😍
 
Yah I saw about that O...

Its alright though, H is a great school, he will be okay. Besides, maybe we will meet up with him. UCSF and H have great relations.
 
hey all, i've been travelling and out of the loop lately, grabbing my internet where I can... A few responses to some things -

DAVIS vs. SF - i had a hard time here too, my fam lives right near davis, and i really like my fam, plus my bf is going to be in law school in Sac... but according to some Drs in the area, they say davis is "almost there" that in the future they could see that going to either would be of equal benefit, but that at the moment, SF has more to offer - that said, it depends on what you want. I really want to work in inner-city, disparity, and international health issues... and SF is great for that.

As for ASW - it was fabulous meeting all of you! I think we have a rocking diverse class, it was so impressive.

FinAid - I got my package, it looks alright, I think... wont cover everything, but i got a little grant too, which I was excited about. Any amount helps!

Housing - I'm still working on renting my doctor's house, only thing is, her son doesn't want to move out (he has to), and I don't know if i want to get into that... So I may start looking again... I'm abroad until mid-july and wont be moving until august-ish.

K, hug to all, and have good summers!!
 
Hello Everyone,

I just got my acceptance today and I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited!
 
congrats on your acceptance and welcome to the class!
 
Hey all.....

Just wanted to post to say that I just got my acceptance yesterday, and that I will be joining you all in September!!!! Whooping Crane - I know how you feel - I am still sooooo excited!!! 👍
 
Hey all.....

Just wanted to post to say that I just got my acceptance yesterday, and that I will be joining you all in September!!!! Whooping Crane - I know how you feel - I am still sooooo excited!!! 👍

Welcome Babel, isn't it fun!?!
 
Looks like there's a lot of WL movement, now if we could get ltrain n NDY in here. . .

We've got a facebook group going on so add yourselves!

-K 😀
 
add me to the list! just got my acceptance letter! so excited. such a relief!🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
 
Small question to ask all the CA residents out there - did you turn in your "Statement of Legal Residence" with your acceptance letter? It seems a bit much to squeeze in that little envelope, and I couldn't find any mention of deadlines/where to send to anywhere. Thanks - can't wait to meet you all come September!!
 
Small question to ask all the CA residents out there - did you turn in your "Statement of Legal Residence" with your acceptance letter? It seems a bit much to squeeze in that little envelope, and I couldn't find any mention of deadlines/where to send to anywhere. Thanks - can't wait to meet you all come September!!

I know. They didn't really explain it. I believe it goes to the registrar's office instead of the admissions office. (When I turned in the acceptance letter, she said that was all she needed.) Did you get the letter with you SAA user ID in the mail? When I logged in the statement of residency showed up as a hold on my registration.
 
I know. They didn't really explain it. I believe it goes to the registrar's office instead of the admissions office. (When I turned in the acceptance letter, she said that was all she needed.) Did you get the letter with you SAA user ID in the mail? When I logged in the statement of residency showed up as a hold on my registration.

Yeah, I did get the registrar's info, but I haven't tried logging in yet - I guess I'll just mail it separately.
 
Small question to ask all the CA residents out there - did you turn in your "Statement of Legal Residence" with your acceptance letter? It seems a bit much to squeeze in that little envelope, and I couldn't find any mention of deadlines/where to send to anywhere. Thanks - can't wait to meet you all come September!!

Interestingly she also mentioned that the admissions office has different residency criteria than the registrar. Strange.
 
I know. They didn't really explain it. I believe it goes to the registrar's office instead of the admissions office. (When I turned in the acceptance letter, she said that was all she needed.) Did you get the letter with you SAA user ID in the mail? When I logged in the statement of residency showed up as a hold on my registration.

I also got the letter and logged on the website and found that my statement of residency showed up as a hold too. I'll call the office tomorrow and find out!
 
It's showing up as a hold on mine too. I didn't don't think it's a big deal, filling out that form is really easy. Welcome newly accepted!!
 
In regards to the Statement of Legal Residency hold, just call the Registrar's office and they'll release the hold. I don't understand why they wouldn't do it automatically *shrug*
 
Bump, what's everyone up to out there? Anybody apply for the summer research fellowship?
 
Bump, what's everyone up to out there? Anybody apply for the summer research fellowship?

Hey all,

I am actually putting on a conference on health disparities, primary care, and interprofessional collaboration June 25-29. It should be fun and you're all invited to participate. It's a great way to get to know the faculty and programs as UCSF. The actual participants have already been selected, however UCSF students who assist in any capacity are welcome to attend portions of the week. Drop me a line if you're interested in participating! Here are a couple of links:

Primary Care Leadership Training Program
Meeting the Challenge of Health Disparities:
Primary Care Across the Lifespan
http://www.amsafoundation.org/PrimaryCareLTP.html
http://www.amsa.org/addm/#ltp
June 25-29, 2007 at the University of California, San Francisco
 
hey there, so as much as med school=no life, i have about a dozen weddings all over the place this summer/fall, and I cant seem to locate a schedule for next year... does anyone have any idea of where to get the academic calendar for next year? thanks!!
 
hey there, so as much as med school=no life, i have about a dozen weddings all over the place this summer/fall, and I cant seem to locate a schedule for next year... does anyone have any idea of where to get the academic calendar for next year? thanks!!

I've just been using last year's schedule to give me an idea, you've probably already seen that. http://medschool.ucsf.edu/medstudents/calendars/
 
Hey guys! I found this updated academic calendar at some point during my UCSF internet surfing. I don't remember exactly where I found it but it's attached. Hope it helps!
 

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hey all, i think ucsf is absolutely amazing and it has always been my #1 ... unfortunately i got a major scholarship at washu (full-tuition) and was planning on going there ... then i just got my ucsf acceptance. realistically, do you think i would be a fool to turn down washu?
 
Hey guys! I found this updated academic calendar at some point during my UCSF internet surfing. I don't remember exactly where I found it but it's attached. Hope it helps!

you are my hero.
 
I think you should try to use your WashU scholarship as leverage and see if you can get a little more aid from UCSF. Then it comes down to your gut, and if you think you'd be happy at WashU vs. UCSF, even with the money. It's tough to ignore a huge scholarship though. Best of luck with the choice.
 
hey all, i think ucsf is absolutely amazing and it has always been my #1 ... unfortunately i got a major scholarship at washu (full-tuition) and was planning on going there ... then i just got my ucsf acceptance. realistically, do you think i would be a fool to turn down washu?

When you are 100 years old, looking back on your life, which decision would you prefer to look back upon?
 
hey all, i think ucsf is absolutely amazing and it has always been my #1 ... unfortunately i got a major scholarship at washu (full-tuition) and was planning on going there ... then i just got my ucsf acceptance. realistically, do you think i would be a fool to turn down washu?

I turned down a fullride to come to UCSF (at a really good school too). It ended up being $ or family... and that seemed like a downright stupid choice. But it depends on you, and what you want to do. I travel a lot, so being based near the fam is very important. Plus, there's enough in med school to make life hard... pick where you'll be happiest... and that's a very personal decision.
 
did i say something that killed the forum? i promise i didn't mean it...
 
Hey everyone,

Just decided on UCSF over Harvard. Does anyone have the match list for UCSF from last year?

Thanks!
 
Awesome, eekonomics.

I second that though: anybody have a match list from last year?
 
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?p=5015477&highlight=ucsf#post5015477

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Ucsf 2007

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UCSF Class of 2007
152 total graduates

Internal Medicine - 20
UCSF (4)
UCDavis (3)
BWH (2)
UCLA (2)
Cal Pacific
JHU
Kaiser Santa Clara
MGH
NYP-Columbia
OHSU
Olive View-UCLA
UChicago
UPenn

Internal Med-Primary Care - 8
UCSF-Primary Care (2)
UCSF-SFGH Primary Care (2)
Alameda County-Primary Care
BWH-Primary Care
Univ. of Colorado
UW-Primary Care

Intermal Med/Peds
UCLA

Internal Med/Psych
UCDavis

Anesthesiology - 11
UCSF (4)
UCSD (2)
Beth Israel Deaconess
BWH
UCDavis
UCLA
UPenn

Dermatology - 8
UCSF (3)
Columbia
OHSU
SUNY-Brooklyn
UC-Irvine
UWisconsin

Emergency Medicine - 7
Alameda County (3)
NYU
OHSU
Univ. New Mexico
UVA

ENT - 3
UCSF (2)
MEEI-Harvard

Family Medicine - 14
Contra Costa County (6)
Sutter Medical Center (2)
UCSF
Fam Med Residency of Idaho
Natividad, CA
San Jose Medical Center
Scripps Mercy
UW

General Surgery - 7
UCSF
UCSF-East Bay
Eisenhower Army, GA
Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital, MI
UChicago
UCLA
Univ. of Utah

Neurology - 4
MGH (2)
UCSF
UPenn

Neurosurgery - 3
UCSF (2)
BWH

Ob/Gyn - 10
UCSF (3)
Kaiser SF (2)
Beth Israel Deaconess
BWH
Mountain Area, NC
UCLA
UMaryland

Ophtho - 11
UCSF (2)
UCLA (2)
Stanford (2)
JHU
OHSU
UArizona
Univ. of Iowa
UC-Irvine

Orthopedic Surgery - 4
UCSF (3)
Stanford

Pathology
USC

Peds - 13
Children's Oakland (3)
UCSF (2)
MGH (2)
UW (2)
Children's LA
Kaiser Oakland
Stanford
UCDavis

Psych - 8
UCSF (4)
UCSF-Fresno
Harvard Longwood
San Mateo County
Yale

Radiology - 5
UCSF
Cornell
MGH
Stanford
UCDavis

Urology - 3
UCSF (2)
NYMC

Preliminary only-Internal Medicine
UCSD

Preliminary only-Surgery
UCSF

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Track - 4
UCSF (4)

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For earlier years:

University of California - San Francisco
2006: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/show...7&postcount=30
2005: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/show...&postcount=138
2004: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/show...&postcount=271
1997-2002, 2003 stats: http://medschool.ucsf.edu/medstudents/resources/match/
 
Hi future UCSFers! Congrats to all who will be joining the class of 2011!

I'm in the class of 2008, but I'm going to take a year off so I'll be joining 2009 instead. As such, I plan on sub-leasing out my fabulous inner sunset room to someone for the school year starting at the end of August when you guys start (I come back around June of next year).

I am a girl, and live with another cool girl that is NOT a student (you guys have NO idea how great of an idea it is to not live with other med students). My room is pretty much the biggest room you can get in SF, I have a huuuuge desk and a queen bed and 2 bookshelves and I have so much room left I can still dance around each morning. I also have a huge walk-in closet, and a shared bathroom. Anyway, since I plan on moving back after my year is over, I was hoping to sublease the room with the furniture included. AND I have laundry in house AND a garage parking spot...pretty impossible in this city. Rent is $890 including all utilities (cable, wifi, etc) and including the garage spot. Thought it'd be a great offer for a future med student who can benefit, especially if you don't want to furnish a room right now, or if you plan on moving away and spending your summer elsewhere (which I highly recommend).

PM me if interested. Good luck to all next year and enjoy this last summer...and med school isn't so bad, you can still have a life! I promise!
 
Hello all -

Just finished the craig's list housing search this weekend - yay! It took forever for me to find something that matched all my needs, but it happened and I'm SO excited to be moving to SF in a few weeks!

Thought I'd share that there's a wonderful apartment available that is close to UCSF in the inner sunset neighborhood. I had a difficult time selecting my new place over this option. It is a 4 bedroom/ 2 bathroom unit ($800 plus utilities). The room is probably the largest and easily fits a queen bed, huge desk, dresser, with lots of space for a chair if you like. It has beautiful bay windows and free laundry right in the apartment! Direct TV and a ping pong table along with a policy prohibiting drugs and smoking inside come with the package. I visited 9 places before finding this one and knew immediately it was a great match. I decided to go with something else only because I preferred to live with girls rather than guys. The landlord is amazing and was a great pleasure to work with (he offered a great discount for long term/1 year lease). He hopes to keep a quieter/study environment in his unit (some of the other guys are going to school/ studying for the MCAT), so I thought I'd post to my fellow classmates. Take advantage of it soon - I'm sure it will go fast!
 
Wow - it's been about a month since we've had any posts! Classes are starting soon - anyone else excited? I've officially moved to SF and am starting to explore the city. There's so much to do and see! I can't wait for my bike to be shipped 🙂

I was thinking about buying some of my textbooks for class/prologue. Anyone - especially upperclassmen - have suggestions on which books to buy and which to avoid?

Here's a quick list of the "required" textbooks according to UCSF:
Prologue syllabus (of course)
Medical Physiology - Boron
Basic Immunology - Abbas
Gray's Anatomy for Students - Drake
Human anatomy atlas (4 options - Moses, Netter, Agur, and Rohen)
Robbins Basic Pathology - Kumar
Basic and Clinical Pharmacology
Wheater's Functional Histology text and color atlas - Young

Whew - would love to get your opinions on the book list for this year!

Thanks!
 
Wow - it's been about a month since we've had any posts! Classes are starting soon - anyone else excited? I've officially moved to SF and am starting to explore the city. There's so much to do and see! I can't wait for my bike to be shipped 🙂

I was thinking about buying some of my textbooks for class/prologue. Anyone - especially upperclassmen - have suggestions on which books to buy and which to avoid?

Here's a quick list of the "required" textbooks according to UCSF:
Prologue syllabus (of course)
Medical Physiology - Boron
Basic Immunology - Abbas
Gray's Anatomy for Students - Drake
Human anatomy atlas (4 options - Moses, Netter, Agur, and Rohen)
Robbins Basic Pathology - Kumar
Basic and Clinical Pharmacology
Wheater's Functional Histology text and color atlas - Young

Whew - would love to get your opinions on the book list for this year!

Thanks!

I spoke to about half a dozen UCSF 2nd and 3rd years and they actually told me not to buy any, meaning NONE of the books. They told me to only get the syllabuses - b/c the teachers actually provide detailed notes about everything they talk about in them, and then only buy books as we feel we need them. So i'm taking their word for it, yay - no spending hundreds of dollars!

My friends at Vanderbilt said that they bought the books and never used them either...

Oh, the only book they said we needed (other than the syllabuses) was Netter's Anatomy.
 
Thanks for the advice docdude - I've already bought Netter and have my own histology color atlas (which was helpful last year in the lab). I was thinking of getting Gray's Anatomy if I think it would be a good reference - but the others I think I might leave on the shelf if the syllabus is complete.

Thanks for sharing!
 
I heard the same as docdude. Buy the syllabi (pretty sure this is plural) and Netter's, but otherwise basically nothing. One M2 told me there was a neuro book that's good for BMB. In any case, I think our book money is fairly safe. I'm excited to start, the party Saturday was awesome.
 
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