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Los Angeles: Departments
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ophthalmology
Oral Biology
Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution
Organizational Studies
Oriental Languages
Orthopaedic Surgery
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Obstetrics and Gynecology department came
into being when the School of Medicine opened its doors to students
in the fall of 1951. Instruction and clinical experience in this
field were prerequisite for the M.D. degree. Lecture courses were
given in the second and third years of the four-year medical course
and clinical clerkships of approximately six weeks were conducted
at the Harbor General and University of California Hospitals. In
addition, four-year resident training programs were conducted by
the department at both of these hospitals for those desiring to
specialize in obstetrics and gynecology.
While the patient services at Harbor and UCLA
Hospitals were maintained principally for educational purposes,
the care and treatment of the patients was also involved. UCLA had
44 beds devoted to obstetrics and gynecology. Harbor Hospital had
90. The faculty supervised and the resident obstetrician-gynecologists
provided the care of the patients admitted to these services. The
department also maintained laboratories at the two hospitals in
which a variety of research programs in the reproductive physiology
and pathology of women were conducted by the members of the staff.
Special fields of emphasis were the physiology of pregnancy and
the newborn infant, gynecological endocrinology tissue culture,
and malignant disease of the female reproductive organs.
A special training program in reproductive physiology
was conducted and supervised by Professor Nicholas Assali since
1959. A maximum of four post-residency fellows were accepted for
a one- or two-year program designed to further their knowledge of
the basic aspects of the specialty and to equip them with research
techniques. The purpose of this program, which was financed by the
National Institutes of Health, was to fit the registrants for a
possible academic career. source
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Ophthalmology
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Oral Biology
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Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution
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Organizational Studies
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Oriental Languages
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Asian Languages and Cultures.
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Orthopaedic Surgery
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