Clinical Learning Unit

We are announcing the development of a new unit in Medical Education, the Clinical Learning Unit (CLU).

The CLU is a subunit of Undergraduate Medical Education that reorganizes the Foundations of Patient Care (FPC) team and the Community Based Education team as one unit that is closely tied to curricular planning and activities of UME.  The CLU staff support and coordinate the FPC course, as well as, volunteer and teaching faculty outreach, recruitment, retention, and development.

The Clinical Learning Unit is led by two faculty members, Anna Chang, the director of the Foundations of Patient Care and Meg McNamara, the director of faculty outreach. The unit is administratively managed and directed by Christina Cicoletti.  Lara Pheatt and Charlie DeVries coordinate the course activities of FPC including the Observed Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE), Mini-OSCE, and Transitional Clerkship (TC), to name a few of the high stakes clinical immersion activities in the FPC course. Christina Lum coordinates the volunteer and teaching faculty preceptorships, including FPC preceptorships and the Longitudinal Clinical Experience (LCE).  As the newest member of the team, Patricia Ramirez supports the Association of the Clinical Faculty and coordinates outreach, retention and development of volunteer faculty.

Open Position: Director, Center for Innovation in Interprofessional Health Education in Student and Academic Affairs

Student and Academic Affairs has an open position for the Director of the Center for Innovation in Interprofessional Health Education.

In partnership with students and faculty leadership from the UCSF health professions schools and programs (Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Physical Therapy) and the Graduate Division, the Director will provide leadership in the design, implementation, and evaluation of interprofessional/multidisciplinary curriculum and collaborate with faculty leadership to ensure that the curriculum becomes integrated into all undergraduate and graduate programs; the Director will be the catalyst for faculty development and health sciences education, research, and scholarship; additionally, the Director will serve as liaison between education technology and faculty leadership regarding the development of technology that will enhance student interprofessional education; and perform other duties as assigned.

See the Medical Education Portal Jobs Page for more information.

Please Welcome Zenas Hau to Medical Education

Please welcome Zenas Hau to Medical Education!  Zenas comes to us highly recommended by her cousin, our very own Jenny Hau.  For the last several months Zenas has been working as a casual hire to help Halima Mohammed and the Office of Student Research.  Zenas has done a tremendous job of scanning hundreds of student research files to reduce the need for file space and develop electronic records to be stored in ISIS and ART.

For the next few months Zenas will be help out in Medical Education updating the preceptor and affiliations agreement Salesforce database.

Please stop by C254 and say hello!

Please Welcome Amineh Helalian to Undergraduate Medical Education

Dear Medical Education colleagues:

Some of you have come to know Amineh Helalian as she has been helping out with several UME projects including implementing the paperless filing system and with TEL on ILIOS2.0 training. I’m very pleased to let you know that Amineh will be joining us as the UME Coordinator! Her duties will include coordinating UME operations for programs and initiatives including externships for visiting students, Ilios curriculum management, etc; clinical learning student interface management; and UME unit and office management. Part of this last duty will include handling complex scheduling for the Associate Dean for Curriculum and for me.

Amineh has been using the OCATemp email address thus far, but can now be reached at helaliana@medsch.ucsf.edu or amineh.helalian@ucsf.edu. If you haven’t met Amineh, stop by and say hi here in S221.

All best,

Phaedra

Welcome Alaina Fernandez to Medical Education

Please join us in welcoming Alaina Fernandez to the Medical Education team.  Alaina joins us from the temporary employment pool to help keep things running smoothly while the Evaluations team continues to search for Joe Crawford's replacement, the Evaluations Analyst II.

Alaina has helped to run the Essential Core Teaching Awards ceremony and has been working hard to master the Essential Core evaluations and eValue.

Alaina is primarily located at China Basin, but you may also find her working in Library 504.

Please join us in welcoming her.

Thank You to Sara Szmodis

Please join me in thanking Sara Szmodis for hard work and dedication to the Foundations of Patient Care for the last several months. Sara took on many of the administrative functions of the course, as well as, helped Lara out with the course coordinator projects.

Sara recently completed her Master of Science in Oriental Medicine from the Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College in Berkeley. Sara has also passed the incredibly difficult national certification examination for acupuncture and oriental medicine. We all wish her the best in starting her own practice in the near future.

Thank you and congratulations to Sara Szmodis!

Thank You to Jesse Arp

We want to extend our deep gratitude and thanks to Jesse Arp who has been working with Medical Education since January of 2010.  Jesse was hired on a limited appointment to help Sylvia Decourcey coordinate the LCME site visit in January 2011.

Jesse helped Medical Education by mining through hundreds of pages of data on the curriculum, staffing LCME working group meetings, and coordinating the many logistics of the LCME mock site visit and the LCME visit itself.

Please join us in thanking Jesse for his work and dedication to the LCME project over the course of the last year.

Congratulations to Patricia Ramirez

Please join me in congratulating Patricia Ramirez on her promotion to Course Coordinator in the Clinical Learning Unit.  Patricia has been a valued member of the Medical Education team as Dr. Irby's Executive Assistant since 2007.

In Patricia's new role she is working to support our volunteer clinical faculty who teach in the curriculum.  As part of her position, Patricia is coordinating the activities of the Association of the Clinical Faculty including planning the groups quarterly meetings and the annual event in November. In addition, Patricia is working with the CLU team to support preceptors and medical students.

Please join me in congratulating Patricia!

Welcome Wesley Cayabyab to Medical Education

Wesley (right) pictured here with
Perry (left), the SimMan

Please join us in welcoming Wesley Cayabyab to Medical Education and the Kanbar

center for simulation, clinical skills and telemedicine education.

Wesley is providing technician support to our simulation and clinical skills program where he will work closely with Scott Brackett and Sandrijn van Schaik, MD, PhD, Education Director for the Kanbar Center.

Wesley joins us with and seven years of theatrical production experience, standardized patient experience in the UCSF standardized patient, and before that four years of EMT experience in San Francisco and Portland.

Please join us in welcoming Wesley to the UCSF community.

Best,
Michael Quirk

Welcome Ty Blair to Medical Education

Please join us in welcoming Ty Blair to Medical Education and the Kanbar Center for Simulation, Clinical skills and Telemedicine Education. Ty will coordinate center scheduling and support educational curriculum events for the four professional schools in the Kanbar Center.

Ty joins us after many years of local theatrical acting experience and most recently as a standardized patient in numerous clinical skills education activities in the past few years in the Kanbar Center.

Please join us in welcoming Ty to the UCSF community.

Best,
Michael Quirk

Eat Healthy, Get Fit & Feel Better: Join the Alive! Online Program

Alive! is an email based program which helps you take weekly small steps to reach your goals on physical activity and nutrition. Starting with a questionnaire, you receive instant feedback and suggestions for small weekly goals based on individual habits. FREE for all faculty, staff and their families.
For information, or to register: www.nutritionquest.com/UCAlive

Living Well at UCSF is a UCSF health and wellness initiative designed to support our campus community’s health and well-being and improve the quality of life at UCSF. Go online to view the full list of spring events.

2011 Horizon Report on Emerging Technologies in Education

The 2011 Horizon report is interpreted, with examples,. for the Education subcommittee of the Long Range Development Plan Committee for UCSF. Download the full presentation for annotated slides notes and examples.

Horizon report 2011 Annotated

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2011 SOM Facts and Figures Cards Available

Did you know that UCSF was originally found as the Toland Medical College in 1864 and became affiliated with the University of California in 1873? Learn these and other important facts about the School of Medcine on the 2011 Facts and Figures website.

In addition, Facts and Figures cards are available -- these are printed (two-fold) versions of our facts webpage. They are typically used by departments, ORUs, centers and school and campus units for outreach, in recruitment packages, and for general publicity. The cards are provided to any unit on campus at no cost as long as supplies last. If you would like a batch, please pick them up at the SOM Dean's Office, S-224, or contact Sandy Butler.

Education Day Monday, April 25, 2011

The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators and the Office of Medical Education are proud to sponsor UCSF's 10th Annual Education Day, an event that showcases the scholarly work of UCSF faculty, residents, and students, and encourages continued evaluation and dissemination of this work. The day is filled with opportunities to see the variety and quality of the work in which our UCSF colleagues are engaged throughout the year.

DIANE WAYNE, MD,
FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

The program will feature peer-reviewed oral presentations, posters and hands-on workshops describing scholarly work in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education. The program also features a keynote lecture by a visiting scholar, this year presented by Dr. Diane Wayne, Associate Professor and Vice-Chair of Education in the Department of Medicine of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

AAMC Sponsors Atlantic Manage "Intelligence Series" on Health Care Refore

The AAMC is sponsoring the April 7 Atlantic magazine “Intelligence Series” event on health care reform. The event “will feature forward-looking conversations with top health and medical experts on policy, systems, industry, and economics” about how the public and private sectors can work together to reduce costs and increase efficiencies.  Panel discussions will examine the potential of integrated care systems to improve the safety and quality of care, and the role that medical schools and teaching hospitals play in training the next generation of physicians and other health care providers.

AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., will be a featured panelist in a session called “The Future of Medicine: Physician Education, Research, and New Models of Care” beginning at 11:35 a.m.

The Atlantic will offer a live stream of this Washington, D.C., event on Thursday, April 7 from 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. (Eastern time) from their Web site at: http://events.theatlantic.com/state-union/2011/.

The full agenda is as follows:

• Keynote Address - Francis Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health
• Panel Discussion - Health Care 2020: Reform, the Deficit, and the Future of American Health Care Policy
• Keynote Address - Governor Peter Shumlin, State of Vermont  
• Panel Discussion - Integrated Care: Can Coordinating Service Lower Costs and Improve Quality? 
• Panel Discussion - The Future of Medicine: Physician Education, Research, and New Models of Care
• Keynote Interview - Senator Ron Wyden, Senior Senator, State of Oregon and Co-Author, Health Americans Act 
• Panel Discussion - Behavorial Economics: The Role of Patients and Caregivers in Health Care 

AAMC Releases Preliminary Recommendations for New MCAT® Exam

The AAMC released the preliminary recommendations for a new version of the Medical School Admissions Test (MCAT®) on March 31.  There are 14 preliminary recommendations that aim to balance the exam’s focus on the natural sciences with the testing of critical analysis and reasoning skills, and direct attention to the behavioral and social sciences.  The recommendations were developed after an extensive three-year review process that involved stakeholder groups, input from blue-ribbon committees and advisory groups, and feedback from more than 2,700 informational and opinion surveys of undergraduate and medical school faculty, administrators, residents, and medical students.

Employee Survey Available Until April 15

The UCSF 2011 Staff Engagement Survey period will end Friday, April 15. The survey, conducted every other year, will poll more than 14,000 employees on campus and in the medical center to help identify ways that UCSF can improve as a workplace to actively “engage” its employees and ensure that employees have pride in what they do.

The survey results will help shape areas of focus for the next fiscal year, including to create a supportive work environment and to cultivate strong, capable managers. This is an opportunity for medical education employees to provide feedback to medical education, the School of Medicine and the university.

This year, UCSF selected the Gallup organization, known nationally for its polls, to conduct the survey, which will be shorter and more targeted than in the past. The 18-question survey should take five to 10 minutes to complete.

Gallup will hold your opinions in complete confidence. No personal references or other information related to your identity will be revealed.

Medical Education has the most dedicated and inspiring staff of any medical school I have ever worked with or visited and your opinion about our work environment is very important to me and the medical education leadership. Please take the few minutes required to complete the survey.

Sincerely,
Kevin H. Souza
Assistant Dean for Medical Education