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:
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
NYU Internal Medicine Residency
Adult Hospitalist at ZSFG
Hospital medicine, medical education, patient safety, systems improvement.
Hiking, exploring the Bay Area, spending time outdoors, soccer, baking, cooking, travel, reading
You get more bees with honey
New York-Presbyterian—Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Internal Medicine Internship
New York Medical College—Westchester Medical College Anesthesiology Residency
Harvard Medical School—Brigham and Women’s Hospital Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellowship
Attending Obstetric Anesthesiologist, UCSF Health
Attending General Anesthesiologist, UCSF Health
Obstetric Anesthesiology Clerkship Director, UCSF School of Medicine
Obstetric anesthesiology, placenta accreta spectrum, medical education, trauma-informed care, medical technology, LGBTQ health, mentorship/sponsorship
Running, hiking, cooking, international travel, time with family and friends
When things are tough, repeat these wise words from one of my college’s deans:
“No matter what you say or do to me, I am still a worthwhile person”
Pediatrics
Armstrong Atlantic State University
Medical College of Georgia
Medical College of Wisconsin Med-Peds Residency
Medical College of Wisconsin, Med-Peds Chief Residency
Med-Peds Hospitalist, UCSF Parnassus and Benioff Children’s Hospital SF
Director, Bone Marrow Transplant Hospitalist Service
Director, GME Global Health Pathway
Medical education, curriculum development, global health
Cooking, hiking, eating, music, and exploring new places in the Bay Area with my family and dog
Sit down, eat something.
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Harvard School of Public Health
Surgical Internship, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Diagnostic Radiology, University of Arizona
Vascular and Interventional Radiology, University of Arizona
Interventional Radiology (IR) attending at ZSFG, UCSF, and VA hospitals
Co-Director, UCSF Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) Center
Clerkship Director, ZSFG Introduction to Interventional Radiology Senior Elective.
Endovascular interventions in pulmonary embolism, trauma, bleeding, Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia, dialysis access, management of pulmonary and liver vascular malformations, medical education, student advising, medical device development.
Dog-frisbee related activities, sail-kayaking, kayak fishing, crabbing, cycle commuting/touring, riding MUNI, hanging with babies, Victorian architecture, SF history, perfecting the French omelet, CA and NV road trips, the study of dog-cat relationships in small confined dwellings.
Listen intently before you speak. Continue doing what brings you happiness throughout your medical training. Don’t get caught up in what other people are doing. Create your own path.
Camila Cribb Fabersunne, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor; School of Medicine Coach
Camila Cribb Fabersunne, MD, MPH ProfileUCSF Health
Harvard Medical School, Doctor of Medicine
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Masters of Public Health
UCSF Pediatrics Residency and Chief Residency
UCSF Pediatric Complex Care Fellowship
Pediatric hospitalist at ZSFG and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals
Medical Director of the Pediatric Complex Care “FLIGHT” Program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
Anti-racism and anti-oppression in medical education, white allyship + accomplice-hood, racial affinity group caucusing, children with medical complexity, child welfare involved youth/ foster care
Parenting using anti-racist frameworks, youth empowerment, playing outdoors (hiking, walking on beaches, camping), charades
Listen as if the speaker is wise; name intent but own impact.
University of California at Davis School of Medicine
Children's Hospital of Oakland Pediatrics Residency
University of California at Davis Master's of Public Health
Primary Care Outcomes Research Fellowship, University of California at Davis Health System
General Pediatrician, 6M Children's Health Center
Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved (PLUS) faculty
Perform quality research that will improve the lives of underserved children with asthma; diversity in the workforce and reduce healthcare disparities in the underserved; educate trainees on how to practice evidence based medicine and culturally sensitive care
Sports, outdoors, cooking
Never underestimate the power of mentorship, it will help you succeed in whichever career pathway you choose.
Don't be afraid to look for help, your mentors are there to help you succeed.
UCSF Health
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
University of California San Francisco – Internal Medicine Residency
University of California San Francisco – Rheumatology Fellowship
Attending, San Francisco VAMC Rheumatology Consult Service, San Francisco and Santa Rosa Outpatient clinics
Attending, UCSF Rheumatology Faculty Practice Clinic
General rheumatology, musculoskeletal procedures, musculoskeletal examination, medical education
Exploring with my two young children, hiking, cooking, baking pies, Bay Area Coastside
Listen with full attention to a patient’s story, and endeavor to provide the quality of care you would want a loved one to receive. Take time for yourself and your family, and enjoy the outdoors whenever possible.
UNC Chapel Hill Medical School
UNC Chapel Hill, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency
UCSF Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
UC Berkeley Master of Education
Pediatric Critical Care Physician (Mission Bay and CHO)
Medical Education
Equity and Justice
Anti-racism
Blackness
Queerness
Being a parent
You have time for what you make time for.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Kaiser Permanente Oakland Pediatrics Residency
UCSF Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship
UCSF Health Professions Education Pathway
Attending, Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Inpatient Pediatrics
Faculty development, medical education, coaching, professional identity formation
Any and all board games, cooking, exploring different San Francisco playgrounds with my busy toddler
Be kind to yourself and patient with yourself. Hold on to wonder and curiosity.
University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center Medical School
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Internship and Residency
Johns Hopkins University Geriatrics Fellowship
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Epidemiology and Biostatistics of Aging Fellowship
Internal Medicine and Geriatrics Attending, San Francisco VA Medical Center
Medical Director, Acute Care of Elders Unit, San Francisco VA Medical Center
Ethics Steward, UCSF
Intersession 2 Co-Course Director, UCSF
Acute care of older adults, delirium, polypharmacy, geriatrics, clinical ethics, interprofessional education and practice
Cooking/baking, hiking, travel
Seek advice. No one is successful without help/mentoring, and there are lots of people willing to help.
Take breaks now. Enjoy a good meal now. Have fun now. Don't put life on hold.
