Behavioral Wellness Center

The Dean’s Office, and our Offices of Graduate Medical Education, Student Affairs, and the Graduate Program in Bioscience, are all committed to ensuring that David Geffen School of Medicine medical students, graduate students, residents and fellows remain mentally healthy while completing their training program.

We invite you to explore the Behavioral Wellness Center site at medschool.ucla.edu/bwc.

What will you find?

• Appointment Request and Crisis Information- Here you’ll find details on the Behavioral Wellness Center’s confidential services, how to schedule your first appointment, and resources if you are in a crisis.
• Recommended Resources– Feeling stressed out? Want tools on the go? Access the Behavioral Wellness Center’s curated database of well-being resources.
• Responsive Design- Our fully responsive design is optimized for mobile and tablet browsing. This means that all the pages of the site will now automatically resize to fit all computer and mobile-device screens.
• Google Site Search- The new site search functionality utilizes the Google Search Appliance which makes the in-site searching experience more user-friendly.
• Social Sharing- Icons at the top right side of each page make it easy for users to share our webpages and content on social media or via an email link, while floating social media icons to the left allow for quick access to our social media sites.

Services Provided:

-Psychiatric Consultation

-Short-term individual psychotherapy

-Information about community-based services and resources

(Services rendered through BWC are covered by insurance and co-pays have been waived)

Phone:  (310) 825-9605
Email: BWC@mednet.ucla.edu
Location: 18-218 CHS (first floor of the UCLA Center for Health Sciences)

Administrative Office Hours: 8:00 AM- 5:00 PM with clinicians available for early morning, daytime and evening sessions.

[AMSA] Legal Service Resources for UCLA community

Dear DGSOM Community,

“Summer has come and passed. The innocent can never last. Wake me up when September ends.” As you cope with the turmoil either in the block or out in the world, DGSOM AMSA wants to send you cordial greetings and our warmest support. We are dedicated to serving our medical students at both the student life and policy level. in this email, we would like to share with you a couple of outstanding and free legal service resources provided to all UCLA students, including tailored services to our DACA recipients. 

For a broad range of legal issues (other than tax and immigration), UCLA Student Legal Services provides assistance such as negotiating on behalf of students and drafting legal documents. For immigration issues, UCLA Undocumented Student Program (USP), in collaboration with the UC Immigrant Legal Services Center, focuses on serving our undocumented and DACA students, as well as students with family members who are undocumented. If you are in fear of losing your legal status for any reason, we encourage you to contact either service for consultation. If your situation is not within the range of either service, you can still obtain a referral to trustworthy outside legal resources. One of us had the pleasure of speaking with UCLA USP Attorney Habiba in person last week and was impressed with her compassion and dedication to our community. Below are details on how to utilize both services.

 

UCLA Undocumented Student Program/UC Immigrant Legal Services Center

Service: Case-by-case immigration consultation & immigration workshops (call to sign up) in the following areas:

DACA

DAPA

Advance Parole

U-Visas

Asylum

Immigrating through Family members

Green Cards (Lawful Permanent Residency)

Immigration Court and Detention

Location: Student Activities Center in Suite B44
Hours: Monday-Friday from 9 am to 5 pm (available in the evenings when needed)
Email: usp@saonet.ucla.edu
Phone: (310)206-2980
To directly make an appointment with Attorney Habiba: https://habibaucimm.youcanbook.me/

 

UCLA Student Legal Services

Service: Confidential legal assistance provided by experienced attorneys on a wide range of legal issues. Several immigration consultations each quarter for all students. All services by appointment only. For more information, go to www.studentlegal.ucla.edu. 

Locations:

A239 Murphy Hall
Number: (310)-825-9894
Email: slegal@saonet.ucla.edu

For international students with non-immigrant status (F, H, J visas, etc.), the Dashew Center for Internation Students (http://www.internationalcenter.ucla.edu/) and the International Student Support Program (us.myissp.com) provide advisory support and nurture a vibrant international student community. 

Warmest regards,

UCLA DGSOM AMSA Board

Co-presidents: Gwendolyn Lee (gwendolynlee@mednet.ucla.edu) and Gabriela Lopez
Policy Chair: Kayla Gu (fgu@mednet.ucla.edu)
Medical Education Chair: Jason Qian
Community Service Chair: Jessica Wu
Website:  https://organizations.dgsom.ucla.edu/amsa/

  

Peer Supported Internet Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for UCLA Students

• Eligibility-screened UCLA students can receive 8 weeks of free treatment for mild-to-moderate depression and mild-to-severe anxiety proven effective in randomized controlled trials.  The program features close clinical monitoring, peer support groups, and individual peer support.
• This unprecedented campus collaboration brings together Campus & Student Resilience, graduate and undergraduate students in our Resilience Peer Network and the Depression Grand Challenge researchers and clinicians.

Students Needed! Click Here to Participate

 

Professionalism Council Announcements

(1) Medical Student Feedback Form

The Professionalism Council has created a feedback form for students to provide ANONYMOUS feedback regarding their experiences in the classroom and while on the wards. We have taken multiple precautions to protect student anonymity, and are striving to change the culture of medicine at UCLA by acknowledging good teaching practices while trending faculty who have created an environment of abuse or negativity.

This feedback form will remain open indefinitely for continuous responses. Please feel free to report multiple events (both positive or negative ones) throughout the year.

Help us change how UCLA practices medicine. We look forward to your participation and response.

Link to feedback form: http://apps.medsch.ucla.edu/redcap/surveys/?s=LJYATMYT3K

Sincerely,

DGSOM Professionalism Council