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Pre-Health Career Services
The UCLA Career Center offers personal assistance and programs on the graduate and professional school application process, including program selection, the personal statement, faculty recommendations, admissions test and financial assistance.

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Pre-Health Student Groups
The UCLA Career Center is currently sponsoring the following four Pre-Medical student organizations. Each group has a distinct mission and unique philosophy for better preparing students for a career in medicine described below. If you are interested in obtaining membership information, please contact the group(s) via email.

American Medical Student Association (AMSA)
With a half century history of medical student activism, AMSA is the oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training in the United States. AMSA is an organization for both premedical and medical students, publishes the periodical, The New Physician, for members to keep them up-to-date with current issues affecting medical education and health-care delivery. For more information about this organization visit their on campus web site at www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/amsa/ or their national web site at www.amsa.org. For more information regarding student membership in the UCLA chapter, send an email to uclaamsa@ucla.edu .

Pre-Medical Peer Association (PPA)
PPA is an organization for premedical students and sets out to unify pre-medical students by promoting a forum for discussion and creating a center for support. If you're interested in mock interviews, evaluation of your personal statement, secondaries and discussions on current health topics, please attend the weekly meetings or send an email to uclappa@yahoo.com . For more information about this organization visit their web site at www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/ppa/ .

The Society for the Advancement of  Excellence in Pre-Medical Education (SAEPE)
SAEPE (also known as The Society) is a not-for-profit national honor society for all premedical undergraduate students, specializing in philanthropy and humanism.  Founded in 2001, The Society focuses on providing premedical undergraduate students superb resources for success in their future medical careers. Unlike other honor societies that have minimum grade point average requirements for membership, The Society:

• Allows all interested students to participate in its national network of resources for excellence in premedical studies
• Recognizes exceptional students on other areas of excellence in addition to honoring strong academics
• Offers undergraduate students membership into a network of opportunities for publication, community service, work with distinguished physicians domestically and internationally and national awards on academic scholoarship as well as excellence in service
• Offers undergraduate student members of exceptional caliber opportunities for distinction through national awards as well as admittance into special National Academies of Honors for service and academics.

The Society is supported and sponsored by the Foundation for the Advancement of Excellence, a national not-for-profit organization that supports scholarships, grants, and programs for higher education. For more information please visit www.saepe.org . For information regarding the student chapter at UCLA, please send an email to saepe_ucla@hotmail.com .

South Asian Health Association (SAHA)
Founded in January 2003, SAHA is a joint effort of UCLA medical students and undergraduates to educate and actively address the needs of the underserved south Asian population and other minority groups. SAHA intends to network with several South Asian health professionals by providing a lecture series and presentations on health related topics. SAHSA will be involved in training students to provide a wide array of preventative health care services at special events and religious sites. In addition, SAHA will promote mentoring opportunities with graduate and medical students and focus on health issues pertinent to South Asians and minorities. For more information or to find out how to get involved, send an email to uclasaha@hotmail.com or visit http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~sumanta/UCLASAHA.html .