Advice for the Life Cycle block at UCSF medical school
This block is considered the “Life Cycle/Epilogue/FPC” and is the last full-length block of the Essential Core curriculum. As usual, the medical students are taught by many excellent faculty instructors. Furthermore, there is a terrific group of MSIV students who will be
teaching in Life Cycle and also serving as mentors to assist students with planning for USMLE Step I and their 3rd year.
One important early point to note is that there is a required textbook for Life Cycle that you will want to pick up. It is Langman’s Medical Embryology, 10th edition, by TW Sadler, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006. (There might be a newer edition now.) The book comes with a very useful CD of animations called Simbryo. You will want to pick it up early as embryology will be one of the first topics in the course.
The directors of Life Cycle are Susan Masters and Linda Hopkins.
There is one copy of Langman on two-hour reserve in the library (under IDS 107). Version 2.0 of Simbryo is also available on-line (from campus or with vpn). Go to the “Useful Web Sites and Resources” section of the iROCKET Materials/Assessment page and click on the link. That section has links to other helpful embryology websites that the faculty and
students have found over the years.
Some helpful links
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/37476/home?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5939446517701113787&hl=en
video on adolescent health services
