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Event ID: 1009572

Organization:	Veterans' Administration Medical Center
Location:	4150 Clement Street, VAMC 111, San Francisco CA 94121
Geographic Location:	San Francisco Metro Area
Host Name:	Paul Volberding, AB'71 (Biology)
Host Title:	Professor and Vice-Chair of Medicine, UCSF Chief, Medical Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research
About the Organiztion:	The University of California San Francisco is one of the leading medical universities in the world. It successfully competes for the most promising trainees and is one of the leading institutions in NIH research funding. The SF Veterans Affairs Medical Center is closely affiliated with UCSF and is a major site of medical education, patient care and research. The externship will be primarily based at the SF VA Medical Center, but can include functions at the other campuses of UCSF as well. The VA Medical Center provides a full range of in-patient and out-patient care. The primary focus or the externship will be on in-patient internal medicine, but can be structured to include other specialties, depending on the student’s interest. For more information about the medical center, please visit: www.sf.med.va.gov
About the Host:	Dr. Paul A. Volberding is one of the world's foremost AIDS physicians and a pioneering researcher since the epidemic. He is chief of the medical service at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is also vice chairman of the department of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. As chief of medicine at the VA, Volberding's job will involve promoting more research and innovation, overseeing the teaching of young physicians and the quality of patient care and working with the staff's physicians to treat veterans with HIV infections and AIDS. Dr. Volberding was a young cancer specialist when he joined the UCSF faculty at San Francisco General Hospital in 1981, just when the first cases of a strange new infectious disease were being recorded in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.Two years later, Dr. Volberding joined Dr. Donald Abrams, another cancer specialist, and the late Dr. Constance Wofsy, a specialist in infectious diseases, to start the nation's first program dedicated to treating what by then was recognized as a major new epidemic.The three doctors treated the most severely ill patients in the hospital's old Ward 86 and opened the world's first AIDS outpatient clinic there, the clinic now known as the Positive Health Program. Under Dr. Volberding's leadership, the clinic's doctors pioneered in studies of the drug AZT for patients without symptoms who tested positive for HIV, the AIDS virus. The clinic staff also studied new drugs against AIDS-related diseases such as Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.

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1. Please go to Monstertrak.com
2. Once you have entered your username and password on the MonsterTRAK login page under student username and password on the right, you will be taken to UChicagoTRAK from which you can click on the Interview/TRAK tab at the top right.
3. Once in InterviewTRAK, you can search for externships two ways:
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4. You may apply to as many externships as interest you. Each externship requires a different cover letter, though you may use the same resume for all.

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