Grand Opening of the Teaching and Learning Center

Opening Week: January 18-21, 2011

Multi-purpose room for multimedia and digital audio recording
and production and presentation practice space

You are cordially invited to visit UCSF's new Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) during our week-long grand opening. The TLC will be hosting four days of tours, demonstrations and workshops to introduce our community to our new interprofessional teaching and learning facilities. We invite you to stop by to see innovative teaching and learning in action and to find out how you can use these facilities to teach, to learn or simply be inspired!

The TLC will offer students and faculty members from across the health professions opportunities to work side-by-side and develop the skills required for delivery of safe and effective patient care.

Check out the Preliminary Schedule for Opening Week.

Or see the Detailed Schedule below:

Tlc Schedule

Association of the Clinical Faculty Annual Meeting Awards Banquet

Dr. David M. Irby and Loma Flowers, MD
the Charlotte Baer Memorial Award Winner

On Tuesday November 16th, Mary Conn-Fitch, of Development and Alumni Relations and Patricia Ramirez co-hosted the Association of the Clinical Faculty Annual Meeting Awards Banquet.

Effective January 2011 support for the Association of the Clinical Faculty (ACF) will be officially transitioned to medical education. Patricia is the lead staff member to support the ACF. The ACF was created in 1971 with the goal of improving both clinical instruction and the relationship of the school and the medical community. 

At this year's annual banquet the keynote speaker was Lonnie R. Bristow, MD former president of the American Medical Association.  Loma K. Flowers, MD from the Department of Psychiatry was awarded the 2010 Charlotte Baer Memorial Award.

Getting the Call from Stockholm: My Karolinska Institutet Experience - Dr. David M. Irby

On Wednesday November 3rd Dr. Irby was awarded the Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research in Medical Education. The prize is an international prize awarded for outstanding research in medical education. The purpose of the prize is to recognise and stimulate high-quality research in the field and to promote long-term improvements of educational practices in medical training.

Dr. Irby shares his experience of being awarded the Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research in Medical Education in the presentation below:

Karolinska Prize Week 2010


Read more about the Dr. Irby's research and the prize.

LCME Accreditation Resources Online

The LCME Accreditation information and resources are now online. The LCME Accreditation page is linked from the Medical Education portal.

The site contains the information for the LCME Accreditation team as well as the UCSF Committee chairs and co-chairs.

In addition, the page has many resources to prepare for the LCME Mock Site Visit coming up on December 6-8, 2010. You will find the LCME Mock Site Visit Itinerary, the LCME Self Study, Medical Education annual report, and a link to the Ilios calendar that contains all of the site visit materials.

Later in December the online materials will reflect the itinerary and calendar for the LCME Accreditation visit from January 9-12, 2011.

Special thanks to Sylvia DeCourcey who organized the content and built the Ilios course to house LCME materials with the help of Jesse Arp and Valentina Bettencourt.

PISCES: Richer Learning, Better Care

Tracie Brodhun, 48, had just finished her consultation with her surgeon at UCSF, when he suggested that she might want to team up with Aubrey Gilbert, a third year student at UCSF's School of Medicine. "I remember he told me she could answer my questions," says Brodhun, whose thyroid cancer had returned after 20 years. "And I thought, 'Oh, that's nice. But I really don't think I'll have any questions."
Of course, as a cancer patient, Brodhun did end up having questions. And Gilbert, 31, was the perfect respondent.  "Aubrey was just so accessible and approachable," Brodhun says. "She's an incredibly kind, warm person."

Gilbert and Brodhun were both part of UCSF's "Parnassus Integrated Student Clinical Experiences" program, which is an innovative approach to the third year of medical school. Under PISCES, students spend an entire year at UCSF Medical Center (including Mount Zion and Lakeshore) and work one-on-one with faculty from 12 core medical and surgical specialties simultaneously, rather than going through their "rotations" one after another.  This approach allows them to develop a more multi-disciplinary understanding of the specialties, the patient experience, and how the UCSF Medical Center works.

"We're at the front edge of a growing wave in medical school curriculum," says Helen Loeser, associate dean of curriculum for the school. "There are only a handful of other schools doing this nationally. We are finding it to be a very rich and effective model for learning."

Read more: PISCES: Richer Learning, Better Care | UCSF School of Medicine

By Susan Davis

November 30, 2010 - Education Grand Rounds with Dr. Jay Rosenfield, MD, MEd

Changes in Medical Education on the International Scene: The Future of Medical Education in Canada

Led by:
Jay Rosenfield, MD, MEd
Vice-Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

In this Education Grand Rounds presentation, Dr. Rosenfield will build on his experiences at the University of Toronto School of Medicine to illustrate how medical education is changing from the international perspective. From the Canadian experience, participants will be encouraged envision the future of their role in the health professional educational system, and imagine how changes to the structure of their organizations and institution might unfold and what kinds of benefits could result.

Emergency Preparedness Made Affordable For UCSF Students, Staff, Faculty, Affiliates and Departments

The USCF Police Department is pleased to announce a new emergency preparedness service that makes personal and departmental preparedness affordable for students, staff, faculty and affiliates.*

It is now possible for every UCSF ID card holder to purchase a three day disaster kit for their car for $5.31, or a three day disaster kit for a family of four for $33.55; a department can also purchase three days of disaster supplies for their office, class or lab for as little as $11.71 per person. By partnering with Your Safety Place, UCSF PD has contracted for a 20% discount on disaster supplies, allowing the community to purchase any item from Your Safety Place’s extensive inventory.

Go to:

• http://www.yoursafetyplace.com/store/listCategoriesAndProducts.asp?idCategory=18269, or
• Visit the UCSF PD website at http://police.ucsf.edu (select “Preparing for Emergencies” then “Emergency Supplies”, then “UCSF Discount Disaster Supply Program”).

The UCSF Police Department strives to improve the University’s ability to respond to and recover from a disaster, understanding disaster preparedness begins with you, the members of the UCSF community. Having three to seven days of food, water, and essential emergency supplies can make a difference between being a survivor or a victim when disaster strikes.

Just in time for the holiday season, we encourage you to make disaster preparedness a gift of caring for yourself, your loved ones and your students and employees, and to continue making preparedness a goal worth pursuing throughout the year.

* Affiliates include volunteers, employees of UCSF Contractors including food court and Fitness Center employees, residents, fellows or anyone who has a current UCSF ID.

Capturing the Continuum of Learning: Student to Practitioner Portfolio

At this year's AAMC Annual Meeting the Group on Information Resources hosted a Plenary Session on Capturing the Continuum of Learning: Student to Practitioner Portfolio.

This session presented the role of a portfolio in creating linkages across the continuum of learning from student to practitioner, demonstrating at each stage of the learner’s development how a learner would capture and exchange information for a variety of purposes (including but not limited to personal development, competency achievement, certification and practice evaluation and improvement.)

Watch the presentation!

Speakers included:
Robert M. Galbraith M.D.
Linda Lewin M.D.
Neil Mehta M.D.
Anderson Spickard M.D., M.S.
Freda Bush M.D.

Imagined Visual Trajectory

AAMC President Encourages Medical Leaders to Create "A Future That Inspires"

Darrell G. Kirch, MD. AAMC President

Washington, November 7, 2010—As leaders of the nation's medical schools and teaching hospitals convened for the AAMC's (Association of American Medical Colleges) 2010 Annual Meeting, AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., urged them to accelerate the process of transformational change in medical education and health care delivery.

Watch the address.
Read the transcript.

UCSF Medical Education Alphabet Soup

Ever feel like we have a language of our own with all of our medical education and UCSF acronyms?  Ever leave a meeting and have to run back to your computer to look up what everyone was referring to?

Check out the UCSF and Medical Education Alphabet Soup!

Special thanks to Sylvia DeCourcey for adding the LCME dialect to our already robust language!

Volunteer with the Green Team!

Who is Team Green?
Team Green is a group of medical education employees working towards promoting department policies and activities aimed at reducing the environmental impact of our office spaces and work habits.

We all care about the environment but are you willing to commit and find ways of ‘greening’ our daily habits at work? We’ve developed a Charter and have set recommendations for Medical Education Green Standards.

Please email me at ramirezp@medsch.ucsf.edu for interest or questions about what we do.

Check out our wiki site.
https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/x/h48cAQ

A.R.T. - Application, Review, and Tracking System

October application deadlines have passed and staff in Pathways to Discovery and the Pathways Funding Agency rejoice!

A powerful, new tool called the A.R.T. system (Application, Review and Tracking System) cuts the work of days into hours and offers an enlarged capacity for tracking and assessing programs. 

A combination of Formstack and a homegrown interface and database, the Application, Review, Tracking System (A.R.T.) automatically knits together applicant and recommender submissions, allows document upload, and generates online application management interfaces (see image 1).

Image 1: Application Management Tab

Once reviewers names are attached to individual applications, reviews can be performed through the same system – no more time spent creating and transferring documents. And reports can be customized and downloaded as spreadsheets in seconds (see image 2)

Image 2: ART report selection screen

Form production via Formstack is much easier than in Checkbox because branching doesn’t require as many steps. And the output retains formatting!

Coordination among programs using this new tool will allow us to track learners across programs, creating a more complete picture of the distribution and impacts of UCSF resources.

ART was developed through a cross-campus initiative facilitated by UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI).

This is a terrific story of cross-campus collaboration. Many thanks to Leslie Yuan, Eric Meeks and Mini Kahlon of CTSI, Cary Fox and Todd Parsnick from the Coordinating Center, Chris Ireland from CTST, Kevin Souza of Medical Education, Dan Lowenstein of the Office of Student Research, Opinder Bawa, Rhona Snyman, and Nina Jameson of ISU, Cecily Hunter of PACCTR, Mary Beattie, Madhavi Dandu, and Halima Mohammed of the Pathways Funding Agency, and other program administrators for their inspiration and support!

If you’re interested in learning more, please contact Renee Courey at renee.courey@ucsf.edu.

LCME Mock Site visit December 6-8, 2010

For the upcoming LCME Accreditation site visit in January 2011, we will be conducting a mock site visit December 6-8. The purpose of the mock site visit is to ensure that our January site visit will be successful.

Our mock site visitors will be Dr. Cam Enarson, Senior Advisor to the Dean from the University of North Carolina and Dr. Jay Rosenfield, the Vice Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education from the University of Toronto. Both Dr. Enarson and Dr. Rosenfield have many years of experience as LCME site visitors to many universities. During this mock site visit, we will be conducting it as if it is the site visit. Over 100 members of the UCSF community will be participating in the mock site visit. The participants include: Essential Core course directors, Clinical Core clerkship directors, Basic Science and Clinical Department Chairs, Associate Deans, Junior Faculty, Students from all years, Directors of programs, all curriculum committee chairs, Graduate Medical Education, Academic Senate heads, CEO of the Medical Center, JMP directors, the Dean and many more members of the UCSF community.

Library Construction Update

2nd floor construction activities this week involve installation completion and initiating production level service for:

• lighting fixtures throughout the entire 2nd floor space
• electrical, data and audio/visual contractors fire alarm system hardware and finish trims around receptacles
• large and medium sized medical simulation equipment rooms
• terminated cabling and cable management inside the network IDF/AV Core room in preparation for wireless and networking equipment

3rd floor Hearst Room restrooms:

• demolition complete
• wall framing, electrical changes and roughing in of plumbing nearing completion

Noise levels will continue with occasional dropped items, odd hand tool noises, occasional thuds from lowering heavy loads and low rumbling from transportation of heavy loads.

Earplugs are available if noise bothers you. For questions or to report concerns please reply to Library Facilities.

Image below is of a standardized patient room for students to practice their clinical skills in a monitored ‘hospital’ setting with ‘standardized patient’ actors.

Calvin Chou, MD, PhD, Appointed Academy Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

I am delighted to announce that the chancellor has appointed Calvin Chou, MD, PhD, the inaugural holder of the Academy Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

The overall focus for the first five-year term is to promote innovative and collaborative education at the residency level and to strengthen the linkages between outstanding teaching and excellent clinical outcomes for patients. Dr. Chou proposes designing cross-departmental faculty development for GME educators that will enhance teaching in the area of communications skills. The search committee, led by Dr. John Engstrom, commended Dr. Chou’s proposal for its clarity, focus, feasibility and potential impact.

As with the Academy’s Matched Endowed Chair program, incumbents are appointed for a five-year, renewable term (maximum two terms). Unique to the Academy-based chairs, the focus of work may change from term to term.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Chou on his appointment!

Molly Cooke, M.D.
The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators

Moffitt Cafe Reopens

Moffitt Cafe is now complete on the Parnassus campus.  The project includes a completely renovated servery, upgraded dining areas and main kitchen improvements, along with the previously completed Express, a quick service Cafe. In support of a newly expanded menu, the renovated servery includes a Pizza Oven, Fresh Start and Chef's serving stations and a full Deli.