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
UCLA Internal Medicine Residency
Hospital Medicine at ZSFG
Quality and systems improvement, medical education, interprofessional practice, underserved medicine
Reading fiction, writing, ice skating and rollerblading, interactive group games, theater, youth literacy
The story of the three bricklayers, who were part of the team for rebuilding St. Paul's Cathedral. The architect asked each of them what they were doing. The first bricklayer said gruffly, "I'm just laying bricks." The second bricklayer responded, "I'm putting together a wall." The third bricklayer proudly stated: "I am building a cathedral"
UCSF Medical School
UCSF Internal Medicine Residency
Cedars-Sinai Cardiology Fellowship
Cardiologist, SFVA
Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Cardiovascular Stress Lab
General cardiology, echocardiography, interventional echocardiography, valvular diseases, cardiac rehabilitation, digital health, deep learning, medical education
Friends/Family, Outside time, Run/Bike/Ski/Basketball
Have humility and recognize that medicine always has gray areas and room for learning and discussion.
"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability." - William Osler (via ChatGPT).
(“Life lessons in general probably shouldn’t come from ChatGPT, but I agree that this is a pretty good one” - a friend)
Brown University School of Medicine
Brown University Internal Medicine Residency
University of Washington Geriatric Medicine Fellowship
Harvard University Masters in Public Health
University of Washington Teaching Scholars Program
Geriatrician for veterans at the SFVAMC
Attending for Internal Medicine Inpatient Wards
Medical director, Community Living Center, a skilled nursing facility at the SFVAMC
Director of the Geriatric Medicine elective for the fourth-year medical students
Interprofessional education, mentorship in academic medicine, geriatric medicine, system improvement
Music, cooking, baseball, skiing, traveling, spending time with my family
Be available to listen, treat everyone equally with respect and compassion, be supportive
Medical College of Wisconsin
Vanderbilt University Anesthesiology Residency
Vanderbilt University Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship
Attending, Pediatric Anesthesia, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
Medical education, feedback, pediatric pain management, wellness
Exploring the Bay Area with my husband and two young children, cooking/baking, crafts, travel, fitness, Duke basketball
Never underestimate the impact of your words. You never know what may inspire or comfort someone.
