Annual Education Showcase

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Education Showcase 2026
Thursday, April 30, 9 am - 5 pm
Mission Center Conference Center, Mission Bay Campus
tiny.ucsf.edu/EdShowcase
Online and Virtual Sessions Offered

Call for Abstracts Announced December 1, 2025

The Center for Faculty Educators presents UCSF's 25th Annual Education Showcase, an event that highlights and celebrates the scholarly work of UCSF faculty, fellows, residents, students and staff. The showcase will be filled with opportunities for faculty development and to see the variety and quality of innovative educational work produced by our UCSF colleagues throughout the year. The Cooke Awards are presented during the plenary session.

The program will feature peer-reviewed oral presentations, workshops, topics tables, and more. All members of the UCSF community are invited to participate. We encourage those involved in health professions education to attend.

2025 Annual Education Showcase

Keynote: Monday, April 28 | Workshop: Tuesday, April 29

Rola Ajjawi, PhD, The University of British Columbia (UBC)

Dr. Rola Ajjawi is a Medical Education Research Professor. She studied physiotherapy and became a clinical teacher before completing a PhD in health professions education examining how clinical reasoning is learned and communicated in practice. She leads several programs of research into feedback and workplace learning cultures, student failure and success, and latterly belonging and well-being in health professions education. Her research has attracted over $2.5 million in funding and is well cited with her latest edited volume published in 2023: Ajjawi R, Tai J, Boud D, and Jorre de St Jorre T. (Eds.) Assessment for Inclusion in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Social Justice (Routledge, open access). Rola is Deputy Editor of the journal Medical Education and chair of the International Association for Health Professions Education (AMEE) Research Committee. She was awarded a Karolinska Institutet Fellowship in 2021 for excellence in medical education research. She is lead guest editor of a special issue of Teaching in Higher Education: Reconsidering the role of authenticity in assessment in higher education and is editing a virtual special issue of the journal Medical Education on gender.

Schedule

Join us for a light breakfast to kick-off the 2025 Education Showcase! 2025 Education Showcase Program Book (archived PDF) is available to download.

Monday, April 28	Tuesday, April 29
9 - 10:10 am: Keynote (In-person and Zoom) 10:10 - 11 am: Panel Discussion (In-person and Zoom) 11:15 am -12:10 pm: Mini Orals (In-person) 12:15 - 1:15 pm: Lunch and Topics Table Discussions (In-person): The Joy of Teaching: How to Engage Busy Faculty in Medical Education Techniques to Reduce Mistreatment across Clerkships Beyond the Dyad: Findings Mentoring Opportunities at UCSF How to Leverage Culture of a Program and Facilitate Residents to Participate in Rank Day 1:15 - 3:15 pm: Selected Oral Presentations (In-person and Zoom) 3:30 - 4:30 pm Mini oral presentations (Group G on Zoom, All others In-Person) 4:30 pm - 5: 30 pm: Networking Reception	9 am - Noon: Mini Orals and Workshops (click workshops for separate registration) 9 am - Noon: Mini Orals (Group D on Zoom, All others In-Person) 9 am - Noon: Survey Design Workshop (In-person) 10 am - Noon: Educator Portfolio Workshop (In-person) 12:15 pm -1:30 pm: Lunch and Topics Table discussions (In-person): Optimizing Ergonomics and Collaboration: Challenges and Strategies for Opposite-Handed Proceduralists Psychedelics: An Elective Rotation for Residents Examining your Privilege to Create Connection Positionality Statements in Medical Education Health Policy and Advocacy The Uses of Story in Health Professions Education 1:45 - 2:45 pm: Entrustable Profesional Activities (EPA) panel (In-person and Zoom) 3 - 5 pm: Workshops (In-person) 3 - 5 pm: Entrustable Professions Activities (EPA) Workshop 3 - 5 pm: Feedback Workshop

Monday, April 28

Tuesday, April 29

9 - 10:10 am: Keynote (In-person and Zoom)

10:10 - 11 am: Panel Discussion (In-person and Zoom)

11:15 am -12:10 pm: Mini Orals (In-person)

12:15 - 1:15 pm: Lunch and Topics Table Discussions (In-person):

The Joy of Teaching: How to Engage Busy Faculty in Medical Education
Techniques to Reduce Mistreatment across Clerkships
Beyond the Dyad: Findings Mentoring Opportunities at UCSF
How to Leverage Culture of a Program and Facilitate Residents to Participate in Rank Day

1:15 - 3:15 pm: Selected Oral Presentations (In-person and Zoom)

3:30 - 4:30 pm Mini oral presentations (Group G on Zoom, All others In-Person)

4:30 pm - 5: 30 pm: Networking Reception

9 am - Noon: Mini Orals and Workshops (click workshops for separate registration)

9 am - Noon: Mini Orals (Group D on Zoom, All others In-Person)
9 am - Noon: Survey Design Workshop (In-person)
10 am - Noon: Educator Portfolio Workshop (In-person)

12:15 pm -1:30 pm: Lunch and Topics Table discussions (In-person):

Optimizing Ergonomics and Collaboration: Challenges and Strategies for Opposite-Handed Proceduralists
Psychedelics: An Elective Rotation for Residents
Examining your Privilege to Create Connection Positionality Statements in Medical Education
Health Policy and Advocacy
The Uses of Story in Health Professions Education

1:45 - 2:45 pm: Entrustable Profesional Activities (EPA) panel (In-person and Zoom)

3 - 5 pm: Workshops (In-person)

3 - 5 pm: Entrustable Professions Activities (EPA) Workshop
3 - 5 pm: Feedback Workshop