Key and Special Topics Educational Skills Workshops

The Office of Medical Education and the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators co-sponsor workshops on topics related to improving essential educational skills, as well as several workshops on special topics in education. Workshops are also offered for faculty who teach at remote sites. 

UCSF designates these live activities for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. 

  

Upcoming workshops (September-October):

September 20, 2011
Parnassus, N-517, 1-5pm
Educator's Portfolio and Career Development
Martin Bogetz, MD
S. Andrew Josephson, MD 

September 22, 2011

Parnassus, S-157, 10am-noon
Best Practices for Helping Students Manage Projects
Christian Burke
H. Carrie Chen, MD, MSEd
Tracy Fulton, PhD

October 3, 2011
Vista Family Health Center, Santa Rosa, 6-8pm
Finding Clarity: Establishing Goals and Expectations
Bradley Sharpe, MD

October 11, 2011
Mission Bay, GEN-S261, 1-5pm
Clinical Teaching
Arianne Teherani, PhD
Andrea Marmor, MD, PhD

October 24, 2011
Parnassus, S-159, 9am-noon
UCSF Portfolios:  Why is everyone talking about them? What works and what doesn't?
Lee Atkinson-McEvoy, MD
Chandler Mayfield

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Orientation Day Invitation to The Learning Center: October 11

Join the TLC for a day of workshops, tours, and demos
Learn how to take advantage of the resources in TLC

When: Tuesday, October 11, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Where: Teaching & Learning Center
Parnassus Campus Library, 2nd floor

Skills development workshops will cover:

• classroom-based and online educational technology
• simulation and clinical skills training
• telemedicine technology in action
• effective teaching techniques
  

Who should attend:

• Faculty
• Academic program coordinators
• Curriculum support staff
• Instructional technologists
• Students and other learners

To Pre-register and view a complete list of workshops visit the TLC website

A Banner Year for Accreditation

UCSF has been awarded four separate accreditations this year garnering outstanding grades in each case. The institutional responsibility is tremendous and the accreditation process is extremely rigorous, taking more than three years of preparation. Earlier this year, UCSF’s overall campus was given a maximum 10-year accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) across all schools and the Graduate Division.

Dr. David Irby directed the Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) program process which received the maximum eight-year accreditation.

“It’s a major process that involves a lot of time and energy but the good news is that it all works to improve the educational process for our students. It’s a way to review your strengths and limitations and to develop a work plan to address the problems and improve the overall quality of the learning environment.”

Dr. Bobby Baron oversaw the accreditation process for UCSF’s Continuing Medical Education (CME) program which received the maximum six-year accreditation and the Graduate Medical Education (GME) program which earned the accreditation maximum of eight years.

"There are a lot of requirements and very often one is criticized for what seems to be a relatively minor violation. That can be frustrating. On the other hand, accreditation can be an effective lever for change – a stimulus to improve one’s own practice. It is peer-reviewed and transparent. One identifies problems, and often the institution is more willing to invest in solutions.”

Congratulations and thank you to all the medical school teams for this tremendous achievement!

Read the full article

Welcome Nicole Luna to Medical Education

Please welcome Nicole Luna to the Medical Education team. Nicole started with us on August 15th, as the Foundations of Patient Care Course Coordinator and will work with Allison Ishizaki to oversee and coordinate the FPC activities and course.

Nicole brings several years of coordination experience as the Development and Volunteer Coordinator for the Queer Resource Center at the Portland State University where she coordinated the center activities, managed staff and volunteers, as well as planned a regional conference. In addition to Nicole's coordination experience, Nicole brings a passion for education. She was an instructor as several colleges, but most recently taught English at Clark College in Vancouver Washington. Nicole earned her Masters of Arts in English from Portland State University.

Welcome Nicole to Foundations of Patient Care and Medical Education.

Educational Research Seed Grants - Call for Proposals

We invite faculty members to apply for educational research grants. Deadline: October 1, 2011

To stimulate educational research at UCSF, faculty can apply for small grants to get started with their educational research. Seed grants fund hypothesis-driven educational research in any of UCSF’s educational research priority areas:

• curriculum development outcomes
• clinical teaching
• effect of teaching and curriculum on patient care
• innovative assessment approaches
• portfolios
• professionalism
• reflection
• workplace learning

Detailed guidelines

The Professions Education Resource Center (PERC) provides resources for educational research studies, including pre-submission consultations. Visit their website

Join the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators for our 11th Annual Celebration of New Members

Monday, September 19, 2011
3:30-5:00pm
Room N-225, Parnassus Campus

You are invited to join us on September 19 as we honor our eleventh class of new members:

Lorriana Leard, MD
Department of Medicine
Kanade Shinkai, MD, PhD
Department of Dermatology
Daniel West, MD
Department of Pediatrics

We will also present the Boyden Award and recognize the 2011 recipients of the Excellence in Teaching Award.

Event Details

AAMC Launches Readiness for Reform Innovation Challenge

The AAMC’s new Readiness for Reform (R4R) Innovation Challenge will recognize transformational health care delivery programs that leverage the uniqueness of academic medicine and integrate innovations in research and education. Three institutional winners will receive $5,000 each and be announced at the 2011 AAMC Annual Meeting. The R4R Initiative helps AAMC members assess their readiness to respond to key provisions of the Affordable Care Act and provides tools for sharing strategies and showcasing best practices for building capacity to address delivery reform. For more detailed information and to submit an Innovation Challenge proposal, please visit www.aamc.org/icollaborative/r4rchallenge.

The 2010-11 Essential Core Teaching Awards (ECTA)

The 2010-11 Essential Core Teaching Awards (ECTA)
Presented by the Class of 2014 and the ECTA Committee

Please join us in celebration of the 2010-11 Essential Core Teaching Award winners!
A ceremony and reception honoring the recipients will commence on:

Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 3:00 P.M. in Room HSW-300.

For Commitment to Teaching
Naftali Presser, M.D.
Resident, Surgery
Nomination as Small Group Teams Instructor

For Outstanding Contribution to an Elective
Fangfang Xing
Medical Student, School of Medicine
Nomination as Medical Scholars Program
Instructor

For Innovative Teaching
Pedram Fatehi, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Medicine—Nephrology
Nomination as Small Group Instructor

For Inspirational Teacher
Lawrence N. Hill, M.D.
Clinical Instructor
Family and Community Medicine
Nomination as Foundations of Patient Care Small Group Instructor

For Outstanding Lecture Series
Jon Terdiman, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Gastroenterology
Nomination as Metabolism and Nutrition Lecturer

For Outstanding Lecture
Kimberly Topp, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science; Anatomy
Nomination as Prologue Lecturer

For Excellence in Small Group Teaching:

Amanda Johnson, M.D.
Resident, Pediatrics
Nomination as an Organs Small Group
Teams Instructor

Grant Sanders, M.D.
Resident, Anesthesia
Nomination as an Organs Small Group
Teams Instructor

Lundy Campbell, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor
Anesthesia
Nomination as an Organs Small Group Teams P&R Physiology Instructor



Congratulations to all the 2010-2011 Essential Core Teaching Awards nominees!

Jon Matt Aldrich, Kaveh Ashrafi, Timothy Berger, Judith Bishop, Vona Britz-Diener, Luke John Day,
Nripendra Dhillon, Brett Elicker, Patrick Fisher, Danica Galonic, Andrea Garber, Seunggu Han,
Katherine Hyland, Tim Kelly, Marieke Kruidering, Leslie Manace, Susan Masters, Peter Miller, Peter Ohara, Edna Prieto, Christina Quist, Celeste Reinking, Jeremy Reiter, Henry Sanchez, Colin Scibetta,
Amandeep Shergill, Jennifer Tangtiphaiboontana, Steve Taylor, Kevin Thornton, John Turnbull,
Susan Wlodarczyk, Natalie Young,
Andrea Zanko

The Class of 2014 ECTA Selection Committee
Jensara Clay Jeffrey Doyon
Eric Dybbro Hana Lim
Marc Parris Elizabeth Shen
Ariel Sklar Divya Thapar
Christopher Van Belle Emily Watkins
Benjamin Wolpaw

Maureen Mitchell Receives 2011 Boyden Award

The 2011 Boyden Award recipient is Maureen Mitchell, Clinical Studies Specialist in the Office of Undergraduate Medical Education. Please join us in congratulating Maureen!

Colleagues and friends are invited to attend the award presentation during the Academy's annual Celebration on Monday, September 19, 2011, Room N-225, 3:30-5:00 pm.

The Academy of Medical Educators' annual Jaclyne Witte Boyden Award honors and recognizes a School of Medicine staff member who has shown exemplary service in support of medical education. It is named for former vice dean Jackie Boyden, a strong advocate for the Academy's establishment.

ART Enhancements Enthrall Current Users -- ART now offers time-savers!

Blog readers will remember the launch of “Applications, Review, and Tracking” or ART, a data collection and application review system developed by CTSI. Administrators will no longer lose time entering reviewer reports since reviewers now upload their comments and scores directly into the system! This new "review" link can be used other circumstances. For example, faculty who advise learners interested funding will be able to record notes and actions items for a specific learner without requiring administrative intervention.

Users can track across distinct UCSF programs to discover how learners move through funding and other opportunities at UCSF. Reporting options offer administrators the freedom to create and save specialized reporting templates within and across programs. A new form specifically designed for the collection of longitudinal data will link data from follow-up surveys to specific learners. The follow-up form can be used to collect data or documents from learners at multiple points during and after their participation in specific programs. We look forward to a time when data collected via ART can be easily transferred into ISIS, a current though large and long-term project.

To identify and prioritize additional future enhancements, ART developers are interested in learning more about UCSF program needs. If you’d like to learn more about ART and help brainstorm future developments, please email Brian Turner.

Once again, many thanks to Brian Turner, 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, Renee Courey of Pathways to Discovery, and other program administrators from across campus for their inspiration and support!

LCME, ACGME and ACCME Accreditation Reports

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to report that the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) has accredited the UCSF School of Medicine for a maximum allowable eight-year term. The site visit team commended the school for its strengths in creating an extraordinary environment of collaboration, innovation and scholarship, and specifically noted the culture of innovation and scholarship in medical education.

The report also outlined areas where improvement is needed and progress reports will be required. Several of these areas, such as an MOU with UC Berkeley for the Joint Medical Program and timely reporting of clerkship grades, are already completed. Other requirements for ensuring central oversight of clinical education require further work and are currently being addressed.

You can read a copy of the full report on the Medical Education website.

I want to express my appreciation for the hard work of David Irby and his entire team for this milestone.

We also received two other positive accreditation reports from the ACGME and the ACCME – both of which included commendations and maximum allowable terms. I want to congratulate Bobby Baron and his team for their success.

Taken together, these three external reviews of our medical education programs across the continuum demonstrate the exemplary quality of our learning environment and programs. Our academic vitality continues to be an inspiration and a paradigm for schools nationwide.

Thank you.

Sam Hawgood

UCSF's Cooke Wins Prize for Article on Cost Consciousness in Medical Education

Medical schools should be teaching future doctors the value of a health care dollar, according to Molly Cooke, MD, FACP, professor of medicine and director of the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators at UCSF.

With the rising and unsustainable cost of health care in the United States, Cooke said, change could be effected on one of the most basic levels: between that of a physician and patient. In an article appearing in the April 8, 2010 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Cooke made the case that cost consciousness should be a skill taught to medical professionals like any other they receive in training.

Cooke’s article was recognized in July as one of the Best Articles in Medical Professionalism by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation for highlighting the primacy of patient welfare, patient autonomy and social justice. Read the entire paper online here.

“I would argue that patients depend on us to help them understand both the likelihood that they will experience benefit and the cost, broadly construed, at which that benefit might be won,” she wrote in the article. “We must educate medical students and residents in settings where they have opportunities to develop and use cost-conscious strategies in caring for patients.”

More than 100 articles were reviewed for ABIM's Professionalism Article Prize and organized into three categories: Commentary/Perspective, Medical Education and Training, and Professionalism in Practice. A selection committee, made up of physicians, patients and authorities on medical practice and education, reviewed the articles and judged them based on clarity of writing, thoroughness, methodology, and contributions to the field and society.

Read More: UCSF's Cooke Wins Prize for Article on Cost Consciousness in Medical Education

Open Position: Educational Technology Integration Specialist

Are you passionate about teaching and learning?

Do you thrive when creating technology enabled learning experiences that are both engaging and functional?

Do you enjoy creative solving problem solving, experimenting with new technologies and helping faculty and students leverage the best tools to meet their teaching and learning goals?

…then we want to talk to you!

The University of California San Francisco School of Medicine is seeking a skilled, enthusiastic and experienced Educational Technology Integration Specialist to join our Technology Enabled Learning unit.

The Technology Integration Specialist designs, develops and supports technology-based solutions for medical education curricula and the key services provided by the School of Medicine’s Technology Enabled Learning (TEL) unit; this involves working closely with TEL staff, faculty course directors, support staff, students, curricular programs and committees and technology stakeholders to support rich learning environments that integrate online courses, electronic portfolios, classroom technologies, mobile learning applications and web-based multimedia and collaboration tools all to meet education and curricular needs; the Technology Integration Specialist designs, develops and delivers user trainings and documentation and provides end user phone and email support for TEL systems and services; the Technology Integration Specialist researches, designs and pilots emerging technologies to support educational innovations; and perform other duties assigned.

For more information and to apply to this position, go to http://ucsfhr.ucsf.edu/careers/, and search for job req. number: 36083BR

Analyst I Position in Undergraduate Medical Education

Thank You to Amineh!

Amineh Helalian, our current UME Coordinator, has found the job of her dreams as a Directing apprentice at the Magic Theatre. We’ll miss her so much, but she promises to put us all on her mailing list for all her productions.

Meanwhile, UME needs a new coordinator ASAP, and here’s a short summary of the job. Please send people who want to apply to Req Number 35916BR at http://ucsfhr.ucsf.edu/careers/.

Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) is the portion of the SOM Dean’s Office responsible for the education of every UCSF Medical Student. Through its four sub-units; Assessment and Professional Development, Clinical Learning, Medical Student Services, and UME central; UME oversees the curricular and student services components of the MD program. Our purpose is to guide medical students and faculty from diverse backgrounds through journeys to excellence and leadership in patient care, research, education, and public service.

Reporting to the director of UME, this full-time position will contribute project and financial management skills essential to the running of this complex unit of the SOM Dean’s Office. The UME Coordinator, an essential member of the UME team, provides project support to faculty and staff working on numerous medical education initiatives and functions as the principle point of contact for this office. The coordinator plays a key role in organizing procurement activities, travel management, tracking and managing expenses, and providing essential financial reports to the Director and the Associate Dean of Curriculum. The coordinator is often required to work independently, think creatively, and provide a high level of support for a large, complex inter-professional team of faculty and staff.

Disaster Response Curriculum - An Instructional Grant for an Interprofessional Innovation to Pathways to Discovery

With Global Health Pathway Director Chris Stewart, MD, MA as lead on a UCSF Library Instructional Grant, Pathways directors and learners will collaborate in developing a disaster response curriculum to enhance interprofessional health education competencies while showcasing the new Teaching and Learning Center.

The curriculum will engage learners in interactive small group work designed to convey how training in any of the five Pathway content areas can contribute to policy, preparations, and immediate and long-term responses to a disaster in California. The Interprofessional Health Education Curriculum Ambassadors worked with Dr. Stewart to outline training options appropriate to learners in all UCSF schools and likely to succeed based on evaluation data from the Interprofessional Health Days curriculum. Pathways to Discovery learners will now create the recommended learning opportunities as part of their mentored project and legacy.

New Pathways-Wide Program for Health Disparities Research and Innovation

Dr. Alicia Fernandez

New Pathways-Wide Program for Health Disparities Research and Innovation – Congratulations to Alicia Fernandez and Louise Aronson, and their Cross-Campus Team!

Drs. Alicia Fernandez and Louise Aronson, Director of Pathways to Discovery, will guide a team of faculty and staff educators from across campus in the implementation of PROF-PATH: Promoting Research Opportunities Fully -- Prospective Academics Transforming Health, a program recently awarded a 5-year National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) R25 grant at $1.8.

Dr. Louise Aronso

This funding will be used to create multiple new research training opportunities within PTD for health disparities population (HDP) students from UCSF's four health professional schools and for students interested in health disparities research. PROF-PATH will enhance the ability of existing efforts to support HDP students in an academic career path, promote opportunities for early entrance into successful research experiences, and increase the capacity of local research faculty to effectively mentor HDP professional students in research. The program will also create an intellectual community for participants in research and other innovations to reduce health disparities.

Future Directions of Graduate Medical Education - Presented by Dr. Dave Irby

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Welcome Vaishali Patel to Medical Education

Please welcome Vaishali Patel as the new Medical Education Programs Analyst. Vaishali has 10 years of experience at UCSF, and joins us most recently from Global Health Sciences where she managed Education and Training programs for four years.

Vaishali will coordinate and oversee the School of Medicine affiliation agreements and student grievances. In addition, Vaishali will serve as the communications analyst for Medical Education, working closely with the Medical Education teams on the annual report, blog announcements and our new website roll-out and migration to Drupal. Vaishali will be working closely with the OME team in the Vice Dean's office, room C-254.

Please join me in welcoming Vaishali to Medical Education!

Welcome Rich Fung to Medical Education

Please join us in welcoming Rich Fung to Medical Education and the Kanbar center for simulation, clinical skills and telemedicine education.

Rich will be providing simulation technician support to our simulation and clinical skills program and will work closely with Wes Cayabyab and Sandrijn van Schaik, MD, PhD, Education Director for the Kanbar Center.

Rich joins us fully trained after having interned with the Anesthesia Simulation Department Director at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. This experience provided valuable experience and knowledge of training hospital staff in multiple medical simulation scenarios. Rich has a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and a Minor in Chemistry from the University of Washington.

Please join us in welcoming Rich to the UCSF community.