Education

The SFVA is consistently ranked as a top training site by UCSF medical students and Internal Medicine resident physicians for the exceptional quality of the educational experience. 

Faculty members are involved in curriculum development and leadership of undergraduate and graduate medical education programs at UCSF.  Several SFVA hospitalists have competed successfully for intramural medical education grants, received numerous teaching awards, and been inducted into the prestigious UCSF Academy of Medical Educators. 

Currently, our faculty serve in a number of educational leadership roles including the following:  Deputy Associate Chief of Staff for Education at the VA, undergraduate medical education course directors, medical student coaches, Internal Medicine residency program site and specialty track directors, medicine elective directors, and medical student and Internal Medicine residency advisors.  There are two novel educational programs based in the VA Hospitalist Section.  The first is an early elective for medical students to obtain feedback and assistance on clinical skills by hospitalists and the second is a required orthopedic intern rotation on the co-management service.  Both programs are highly successful due to the dedicated and personalized teaching learners receive.

VA Hospitalist Faculty Roles & Activities in UME and GME

Undergraduate Medical Education / Bridges Curriculum

• Course Directors for UCSF School of Medicine Foundational Science Blocks
  • Health and the Individual, Health and Society
  • Diagnostic Reasoning
  • Ground School
• Leadership in Assessment and Evaluation (mini-OSCE, OSCE, Dashboard, ARCH weeks)
• Small Group Facilitators across pre-clinical Bridges courses
• Bridges Coaches
• Career Advising Co-Director
• Differences Matter Education Action Group - Committee Members

Graduate Medical Education

• Deputy Associate Chief of Staff for Education, SFVAHCS
• UCSF GME Committee Member
• Hospitalist Monthly Noon Conference Series
• Perioperative Medicine Monthly Noon Conference Series
• Center of Excellence for Primary Care Education Core Faculty
• UCSF Internal Medicine Residency Selection Committee
• UCSF Longitudinal Resident Advising and Development Program
• UCSF Internal Medicine Residency Associate Program Director
• UCSF Internal Medicine Residency VA Inpatient Site Director
• UCSF Internal Medicine Residency PRIME (Primary Medical Education—research track) Associate Director
• UCSF Orthopedics Intern Hospitalist Rotation Founder & Director
• Curricular innovations including clinical reasoning, QI, simulation exercises
• UCSF Internal Medicine Residency R3 Teaching Elective Founder and Co-Director
• Assistant Director of Curriculum and Mentorship HEAL Fellowship (Health, Equity, Action, and Leadership) 
• Global Health Fellow Advisor, HEAL Initiative
• Internal Medicine residency rotation co-directors - Jeopardy Plus and Procedures, Quality, Jeopardy (PQJ) rotation