Moffitt Express Cafe: Food2Go!

Food2Go is an innovative new service available to faculty, staff, students, and visitors at UCSF Medical Center. Provided exclusively by the UCSF Medical Center Department of Nutrition and Food Services, the goal of the program is to make the food ordering and fulfillment process as quick and simple to maximize your valuable time.

Imagine being able to order and pay for your complete lunch or dinner from your desk or at home. Print the receipt and go straight to the head of the line. No waiting!! We'll have your order completely ready for you whether you order 30 minutes or 30 days in advance!

This program is currently available in the 920 Express convenience store located in M920. We will be offering this service in the Moffitt Cafe Express, our NEW upscale convenience store when it opens in December 2009. We also plan to extend this service to key sections of the NEW Moffitt Cafe when it opens in October 2010.

Check out Food2Go.ucsf.edu

Green Tip: Turn Down the Thermostat

Green Tip for the Holidays!

It definitely pays to give a thought to your thermostat, since most households shell out 50 to 70% of their energy budgets on heating and cooling. For every degree you lower the thermostat, you'll save between 1 and 3% of your heating bill. Do the same thing in reverse with air conditioning.

Clinical Skills Center team and the traveling Standardized Patients

On November 23rd the Clinical Skills Center (CSC) staff and UCSF Fresno teamed up to administer the Mini Clinical Practice Exam (CPX) at the UCSF Fresno facility.

The Mini CPX is an exam administered to 3rd year students in which they rotate through 3 patient stations while conducting their clinical and communication skills.

There were 12 students doing core clerkships in Fresno, so the CSC staff along with 4 standardized patients traveled to Fresno for the exam. With the help of the Fresno team the Mini CPX ran smoothly and the students were able to have the same experience as the San Francisco students. The marathon day consisted of three, 3 hour sessions with 4 students each.

Photo:
Mike Quirk, Bobby McCon (UCSF Fresno), Bernie Miller, Kasan Jones (UCSF Fresno), Jewel Smally
Standardized Patients – Chole, Wilma, Terry & Dave

Medical Education Calendar for January

January

• 1: New Year Holiday
• 4: AME Call for Education Day abstracts
• 6: AME Executive Committee Retreat, 1-4pm, LR-102
• 15: OME Call for TSP applications to dept. chairs
• 15: AME Leadership Development Workshop for WG chairs/Executive Committee, 2-5 pm, FAH
• 18: MLK Holiday
• 20: AME Announcements of Innovations Funding recipients
  
• 20: OME "Test Development" Education Skills Workshop -Test Development, 9am-12pm, S-226
• 25: AME Winter Meeting, Scholarship Theme: Guest Glenn Regehr, PhD, U. Toronto. 3-4pm, FAH
• 25: AME Member Business Meeting (closed session), 4-5 pm, FAH
• 26: OME Key Educational Skills Series - Educational Scholarship: Reading and Writing in Medical Education, 1pm-5pm, FAH
• 27: OCA Dean's Prize for Research - Milberry Union Gym. Noon-2pm

UCSF Grants Honorary Degrees to WWII Internees

Nearly seven decades after what UC President Mark G. Yudof called a “historical tragedy,” the UC Board of Regents agreed to grant honorary degrees to approximately 700 students enrolled at UCSF, UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Davis when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the executive order granting the military the power to intern Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals.

UCSF was able to track down the families of 67 former students from its schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and nursing, and all were honored at the Dec. 4 ceremony at Mission Bay.
Learn more on the Honorary Degrees Website.


Read more about this special event at
UCSF Grants Honorary Degrees to WWII Internees - UCSF Today

Kanbar Center for Simulation and Clinical Skills Education: Curriculum Planning Working Group

The purpose of the group is to form a cross school committee that is charged with developing a program plan for use of the Kanbar Center for Simulation and Clinical Skills education that serves individual school curricula and interprofessional education goals. The committee will actively offer consultation and prioritize curricular programs for the center through 2015. We expect the members to consult widely within their schools to identify and help develop a curricular plan for the center. The committee's objectives include:

1. General design principles for creating and integrating simulation in the curriculum.
2. Identify and design simulation scenarios for core and elective curriculum that are mapped to the learner's expected competencies.
3. Interprofessional activities: designing and prioritizing innovations, especially those that can serve to promote efficiencies and cost savings by meeting core competencies across educational programs.
4. Curriculum roadmap for simulation and clinical skills that shows where and how these pedagogies are used through each school's curriculum.
5. Provide guidance to the Kanbar Center on how to prioritize scheduling requests for sessions based on their priority within each school.

Membership:
Co-Chaired by Manuel Pardo (SOM) and Mehran Hossaini (SOD)

• William F. Bird, Chair in the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Services SOD
• Sandrijn van Schaik, Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics SOM
• Kevin Souza, Assistant Dean for Medical Education SOM
• Amy Levi, Associate Clinical Professor, Obstetrics / Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, SON
• JoAnne Saxe, Clinical Professor, Community Health System, SON
• Victoria F. Keeton, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family Health Care Nursing, SON
• Christine Cheng, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy SOP
• Lisa Kroon, Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy SOP
• Bernie Miller, Standardized Patient Training Manager, Kanbar Center
• Michael Quirk, Operations Manager, Kanbar Center

Current Activities:

• Cost models for clinical skills and simulation activities
• Models for capacity of center and traffic flow
• Scheduling priorities
• Development of a sustainable business plan
• Foster pilot learning activities

The LCME: How a Medical School Is Born

As many of you know, the School of Medicine is under-going an internal "self-study" in preparation for its January 2011 accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME). In this article by Barbara A. Gabriel you can learn more about the LCME and their role in medical education.

The LCME: How a Medical School Is Born
—By Barbara A. Gabriel, special to the Reporter

What is the LCME?
The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as the official accrediting body of U.S. and Canadian medical education programs that lead to the M.D. degree. Members who sit on the LCME are appointed by the committee's two sponsors, the AAMC and the American Medical Association (AMA). The AAMC and the AMA each appoint six medical professionals and one medical student to the LCME. The LCME itself appoints two public members. The Committee on the Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools also has one representative. The LCME's accreditation process addresses not only the educational mission of a school and the curricular requirements that fulfill that mission, but also explicitly examines the school's overarching philosophy on, and approach to, medical education.

The LCME's extensive evaluation process helps ensure an appropriate learning environment that produces both competent and professional physicians. Read the complete article at: http://www.aamc.org/newsroom/reporter/nov09/lcme.htm