Coaching Program
The School of Medicine Coaching Program is designed to provide academic guidance for students and support their professional and personal development throughout their medical school curriculum. By providing longitudinal coaching for all medical students and robust faculty development for our coaches, we aim to create successful learning communities that support and respond to the needs of our students, coaches, and the patients we serve.
Overview of the Coaching Program:
Coaches are clinician educators who provide advice, assistance, and encouragement in all aspects of our students’ education and professional development. The coaches are a diverse group of faculty from multiple specialties and teaching sites. They are each assigned a small number of students to foster personal and individualized teaching and mentoring relationships.
The coaching program provides:
- Longitudinal coaching for students
- Coaches take on 6 first-year students every other year and follow them until they graduate. The goal is to have all students connected with a coach for the duration of their medical school career.
- Individualized support
- Coaches regularly review their students’ progress and competency development with them, and guide students in individual learning planning.
- Coaches meet with their students individually and in small groups.
- Coaches refer students to the range of learning and career development resources available at UCSF as needed.
- Formal instruction in clinical skills, including quality improvement and patient safety
- Coaches are site faculty members in the Clinical Microsystems Clerkship (CMC), teaching clinical skills and overseeing students’ systems improvement learning at clinical sites during the Foundations 1 portion of the Bridges Curriculum.
To be eligible to become a coach, you must be a full-time faculty member at one of our UCSF, SFVAHC, or ZSFG clinical sites and be available to teach during specific days. For more information regarding the coaching program, email [email protected]. UCSF does not use race, gender, sex, or other protected categories or proxies for protected categories in the selection process.
Our Coaches:
UCSF School of Medicine
Children’s Hospital Pediatrics Residency
Outpatient General Pediatrics
Preceptor, Pediatric Resident Continuity Clinic
Primary care pediatrics
Medical education
Mentoring
My family and friends, backpacking, cooking
Your patient is your partner. Take time; sit down and listen. The answer is there.
New York University School of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency
UCSF Institute for Physician Leadership
Hospitalist, Moffitt-Long Medicine Service, Neurosurgery Comanagement Service, Hospitalist Proceduralist Service
Clinical Microsystems Clerkship Co-Director, Health Systems Improvement
Caring Wisely Director, UCSF Health
Patient safety, quality and systems improvement, high-value care, patient-centered communication, transitions of care, QI medical education
Cooking, travel, watching Stanford football, running after my kids and labradoodle
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
UCSF Doctor of Medicine
Alameda Health Systems, Highland Hospital: Internal Medicine Internship
UCSF: Anesthesia Residency
UCSF: Obstetric Anesthesia Fellowship
Attending anesthesiologist at UCSF
Confidential medical student advisor for anesthesia residency
PISCES anesthesia liaison
Medical education, women’s heath, women in medicine, reproductive right, equity in maternal care, quality improvement
Parenting my two boys, traveling, gardening
Be kind to everyone. One small act of kindness can change someone’s day.
Live for the present moment.
Pediatrics
Washington University in St Louis, School of Medicine
Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Boston Children’s Hospital
UCSF Teaching Scholars Program
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Attending at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, San Francisco
Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Attending at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
UCSF Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound Co-Fellowship Director
Medical Education, Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound, Health Literacy, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, LGBTQ mentorship
Going on hikes with my wife and my dog, finding new recipes to cook, and going on trips both near and far.
Cultivating Curiosity and Kindness is Key.
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Albany Medical Center OBGYN Residency
Stanford University Complex Family Planning Fellowship
Current Clinical Practice:
Attending at Mount Zion Clinic and Center for Pregnancy Options
Attending at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Labor and Delivery
Abortion care and complex contraception
Medical education
Trauma informed care
Running marathons, singing, playing the piano
When feeling overwhelmed with multiple tasks, my mom always reminded me to slow down and just tackle "one thing at a time."
Surgery
University of Western Ontario Schulich School of Medicine
University of British Columbia: Otolaryngology Residency
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center: Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship
Maastricht University: Masters in Health Professions Education
Attending Pediatric Otolaryngologist, Benioff Childrens’ Hospital, Mission Bay
Pediatric aerodigestive disorders
Pediatric head and neck tumors
Pediatric hearing loss and auricular malformations
Assessment in medical education
Hiking, traveling and experiencing new cultures, all things food, exploring northern California with baby and dog!
“Optimism is the theory that all failures—all evils—are due to insufficient knowledge. Problems are inevitable, because our knowledge will always be infinitely far from complete. Some problems are hard, but it is a mistake to confuse hard problems with problems unlikely to be solved.” Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker
University of California, Berkeley
Jefferson Medical College, nka Sidney Kimmel Medical College
UCSF Internal Medicine Residency
UCSF Academic Hospital Medicine Fellowship
Hospitalist, UCSF Parnassus (direct care, teaching, admitting)
Proceduralist, UCSF Parnassus (bedside paracentesis, thoracentesis, lumbar puncture, arthrocentesis)
Residency, Advising, and Development (RAD) Advisor for Internal Medicine residency
Medical education, Mentorship, Bedside procedures, Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), Improving the care of patients with limited English proficiency, Quality improvement
Family, Playing Guitar, Listening to music and podcasts, Cooking, Reading
People will respect your words and your actions if they know that you care about them.
Stanford School of Medicine
UCSF Internal Medicine Residency
Hospitalist at SF General Hospital
Health equity, Medical Education, and Quality Improvement.
Hiking, travel, swimming, dancing, and doubles tennis.
Time is the greatest gift you can give.
Harvard Medical School
University of Chicago Internal Medicine Residency
Hospitalist/Nocturnist at San Francisco General Hospital
Health equity, queer health, medical education, well-being.
Spending time with loved ones, vegetable gardening, walking in nature, poetry, film photography, breakfast foods (especially donuts).
You are so much more than what you fear you might not be.
Surgery
UCSF School of Medicine
University of Michigan, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Residency
Children's Memorial (Lurie) Hospital, Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship
UCSF Teaching Scholars Program
American Academy on Communication in Healthcare Faculty-In-Training program
Pediatric Otolaryngologist, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals-Oakland-San Francisco
Program Director, Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship
Co-Chair, Education Task Force, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
Facilitator, Relationship-Centered Communication for health care providers
Faculty, Academy of Communication in Healthcare
Diversity, equity, and inclusion education, health disparities, relationship-centered communication, narrative medicine, early surgical resident education, children who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Creative non-fiction writing, hiking & camping, meditation, reading, podcast listening, dancing.
Trust takes time.
