Wireless Networks at UCSF

As a reminder, upgrades to the wireless networks at UCSF have completed phase 1. This upgrade now includes the UCSF Library building at Parnassus.

The UCSF campus currently has three wireless networks - UCSFwpa, UCSFnet, UCSF.

• UCSFwpa is a secure, preferred method to connect and uses MyAccess user name and password, available in most locations.

• UCSFnet is another secure network that also uses MyAccess user name and password in conjunction with the VPN, available in most locations.

• UCSF is not a secure network and is now the least preferred method to connect wirelessly and should only be used for connections in School of Dentistry and SFGH. This wireless network uses GALEN Account registration and support for this network will terminate on 06/30/2010.

For additional information about wireless on campus please refer to these websites:

• OAAIS wireless information, wireless.ucsf.edu

• Library wireless information, library.ucsf.edu/services/wireless

Please be sure to let your staff know that ALL THREE of the wireless networks are available in the Library, but that GALEN Account registration is insecure and will terminate on 06/30/2010.

UCSF Publishes Stay-at-Home / Return-to-Work Guidelines for Flu-Like Symptoms

RESPIRATORY VIRAL ILLNESS (including Influenza)

UCSF STAY AT HOME - RETURN TO WORK

GUIDELINES  FOR STAFF ⁽¹⁾

Symptoms	Stay At Home	Return to Work
FEVER Fever  (T38C or 100.4F)	T > 38C or 100.4F	·      No fever for 24 hours(2)
RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS without fever Cough Sore throat Nasal Congestion / Runny Nose Myalgia (body aches)	One or more symptoms on high risk units(3) Two or more symptoms on all other units(4)	·      24 hours after onset of symptoms AND ·      No fever (2)  AND ·      Symptoms have significantly improved
RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS with fever (presumed Influenza) Fever  (T38C or 100.4F) Cough Sore throat Nasal Congestion / Runny Nose Myalgia (body aches)	T > 38C or 100.4F and at least one symptom	·      At least 5(5) days after onset of symptoms AND ·      No fever for 24 hours(2)  AND ·      Symptoms have significantly improved

⁽¹⁾ Staff includes all  employees, faculty, temporary workers, trainees, volunteers, students, and vendors, regardless of employer. This includes staff who provide services to or work in UCSF Medical Center patient care or clinical areas.

⁽²⁾ Assumes the individual has not taken fever-reducing medication (e.g. Tylenol, Motrin).

⁽³⁾ High risk units include adult and pediatric hematology / oncology / BMT services (7 Long, 11 Long, 14L annex, Hematology / Oncology Outpatient Clinic, Infusion outpatient clinic, and Pediatric Treatment Center.) For high-risk units, there is a zero tolerance policy of working while ill.

⁽⁴⁾ If you have received the seasonal influenza and H1N1 vaccine and work on units other than high-risk units, you may work with minimal symptoms if you adhere to excellent hand hygiene and wear a mask when performing direct patient care activities.

⁽⁵⁾ For the purposes of counting the days, the onset of symptoms happens on Day 0.  Day 1 begins the next calendar day. eg. Symptoms begin on Sunday; Sunday is day zero; Monday is day one; and Friday is day five.  You can return to work if well.    

Questions about the process should be directed to Occupational Health Services at 885.7580 or OHS@ucsfmedctr.org

Kirch Calls on Academic Medicine to Accept the “Innovation Imperative”

As the debate on health care reform legislation continues to move forward in Congress, AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., urged leaders of the nation’s medical schools and teaching hospitals to be “the standard bearers” for innovation in health care delivery. Kirch stated in his president’s address at the 2009 AAMC Annual Meeting that current health care reform legislation “is an insurance bill,” which is “a good thing, but not sufficient.” He said that academic medicine was poised to lead the way in a post-reform landscape by “training people to work in a new system” and leading “a new science of health care reform, in which we measure what we do and determine what works.”

Kirch cited “Healthcare Innovation Zones” (HIZs) as one potential vehicle for these and other innovations. HIZs, Kirch said, would promote the “rapid expansion” of successful pioneering efforts and empower academic medical centers “to partner with local providers and hospitals to conduct large-scale experiments in health care delivery for specific patient populations.”

For information: full text of address

From AAMC STAT November 9, 2009

Have something to share with your colleagues? Try Yammer.

Do you have something you’d like to share with folks in medical education or at UCSF? Are you worried that if you send it out via email that your great idea or thought will get lost? Why not try Yammer.

Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: 'What are you working on?'

As employees answer that question, a feed is created in one central location enabling co-workers to discuss ideas, post news, ask questions, and share links and other information. Yammer also serves as a company directory in which every employee has a profile and as a knowledge base where past conversations can be easily accessed and referenced.

Anyone in a company can start their Yammer network and begin inviting colleagues. The privacy of each network is ensured by limiting access to those with a valid company email address. Information is never shared with third parties.

To sign up, go here:
https://www.yammer.com/ucsf.edu/

IMPORTANT: You must use your firstname.lastname@ucsf.edu email address to join the @ucsf.edu network.
Questions: Contact Chandler

UCSF Medical Education at the AAMC

Christian Burke and Bridget O'Brien, PhD represented Medical Education by presenting "What do Lecture Download Trends Tell Us about Student Preferences for Review of Material?" which looked at how students used the two formats - podcasts (audio only) compared to lecturecast (audio + visual) at the AAMC conference last week.

Arianne Teherani, PhD presented "Burden, Responsibility, and Reward: Preceptor Experiences with the Continuity of Teaching in a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship," co-authored with Bridget C. O’Brien, PhD, Dylan E. Masters, Ann N. Poncelet, MD, Patricia A. Robertson, MD, and Karen E. Hauer, MD.

Guidelines for Reflective Writing Produce Higher Quality
Reflections by Louise Aronson, MD, MFA, Patricia Robertson, MD, Julie Lindow, MA, and Patricia O’Sullivan, EdD was presented.

"Predicting Failing Performance on a Standardized Patient Clinical Performance Examination: The Importance of Communication and Professionalism Skills Deficits" by Anna Chang, MD, Christy Boscardin, PhD, Calvin L. Chou, MD, PhD, Helen Loeser, MD, and Karen E. Hauer, MD

Carrie Chen, MD, MSEd, was a speaker on "Skill Building for Scholarly Concentration Programs."

"Correlation between Confidence and Performance of Non-technical Skills by Pediatric Residents during Simulated Resuscitations," by Jennifer Plant, MD, Sandrijn van Schaik, MD, PhD, Diane Sliwka, MD, Christy Boscardin, PhD, and Patricia O’Sullivan, EdD.

"Scholarship Across the Medical Education Continuum." was co-moderated by Patricia O’Sullivan, EdD, and Karen E. Hauer, MD was one of the speakers.

Kevin H. Souza was a speaker on "Sharing and Co-Developing Knowledge for Medical Education with Developing Countries" and "eFolios: Connecting Institutions through Communication Standards: A Project of the eFolio Interoperability Initiative."

"Impact of an Information Retrieval and Management Curriculum on Medical Student Citations" by Huiju C. Chen, MD, Josephine P. G. Tan, MLIS, Patricia O’Sullivan, EdD, Christy Boscardin, PhD, Amy Li, and Jessica Muller, PhD.

Standing Room Only for Cooke, Irby and O'Brien

Carnegie’s pre-release of the findings of Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform (Jossey-Bass 2010) at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) annual meeting in Boston this week drew a standing room only crowd of 700 or more.

Presenting were three of the book’s authors, David Irby, Molly Cooke and Bridget O’Brien, and the chief academic officer of the AAMC, John Prescott. The book is the culmination of a five-year study of medical education in the U.S. The authors called for “medical training for a habit of mind and a form of expertise that involves not only doing the job well, but also doing the job better.” They said that through the release of the Carnegie study, they sought in part to encourage physicians and medical educators to “actively seek out opportunities for improvement in their own patient care practices, in their contributions to policy or education or research, and in the systems, teams, or institutions in which they work and serve patients.”

The book’s four key recommendations for improvement in medical education are to:

• more tightly integrate knowledge and experience
• create habits of inquiry and improvement
• standardize learning outcomes and individualize the learning process
• focus on professional identity formation

Powerpoint slides from the presentation are available on the medical study resources page. The book is scheduled to be released in June 2010.

Evaluations Analyst I Position Posted

We are recruiting for an Evaluations Analyst I to assume responsibility for an array of evaluation and data-related projects. The Analyst will manage survey distribution; coordinate and conduct write-up of quantitative and qualitative reports; and provide administrative support for the SOM preparation for the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) accreditation site visit.

This position is a limited appointment, ending January 31, 2011.

Please find additional information on our Medical Education Job Openings page. If you know of any good candidates, please forward the job post. Or ask them to email their cover letter and resume directly to Sylvia Decourcey.

Major Muni Service Changes Effective December 5th

Due to the global recession that has exacted a particularly heavy toll in California and our City, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) had to take a number of difficult actions to close a $129 million deficit in the current fiscal year operating budget. These actions include service changes on more than half of Muni’s bus routes and one rail line which take effect on Saturday, December 5.

To find potential changes to your service routes see:

http://www.sfmta.com/cms/m1209/dec09service.htm