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:
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.
Touro University, California – Doctor of Osteopathy and Master of Public Health
Riverside University Health System / University of California, Riverside – Family Medicine Residency
Kaiser Permanente, Woodland Hills – Community Medicine Fellowship
Family Medicine Physician at UCSF Lakeshore
FCM and PISCES Preceptor
Medical education, patient education, working with underserved communities, striving to reduce health disparities
Being creative, playing basketball, watching Hindi movies, spending time with family
No matter what others do or say, react in a way which gives you peace of mind.
Shubhra Gupta, MD, SFHM
Associate Professor; School of Medicine Coach
Shubhra Gupta, MD, SFHM ProfileArmed Forces Medical College, India - MBBS
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago - Internal Medicine Residency
Stanford Teaching course
UCSF Lean Champion
Attending for Inpatient Medicine Services at St. Mary’s Medical Center (Teaching and Direct care)
Attending for Inpatient Medicine Services at Parnassus (Teaching and Direct care)
Developed and deliver Quality Improvement curriculum for St Mary’s Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency program
Developed and deliver Patient Experience curriculum for St Mary’s Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency program
Director of Clinical Safety and Quality Improvement curriculum for UCSF Internal Medicine Residency program
Health Systems Improvement work, medical education in the realm of Quality Improvement/ HSI.
Travelling, spending time with family.
Be kind! You don’t know what the other person is going through.
Stony Brook University School of Medicine
UCSF Anesthesia Residency
UCSF Critical Care Fellowship
Attending Anesthesiologist at ZSFG
Attending Intensivist at ZSFG
Internship Program Director, UCSF Anesthesia Residency
ZSFG Resident Site Director, UCSF Anesthesia Residency
Medical education
Mentorship
Simulation
POCUS
Regional anesthesia in the critically ill
Spending time with my family, soccer, snowboarding, live music, trying new restaurants, cooking
Trust is earned.
Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University
UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Residency Training Program
Board Certified in General Psychiatry (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology) and Addiction Medicine (American Board of Preventive Medicine)
Chief, SFVA Addiction Recovery Treatment Services (ARTS)
Medical Director, ARTS Intensive Outpatient Program
Substance use disorders, tobacco use disorder, clinical research, systems-based improvement of addiction care
Hiking, civic and political engagement, rescue dogs
Our patients are our best teachers. Seek to learn from those with training, background, and expertise different from your own. Treat everyone on the multidisciplinary team with respect.
UCSF School of Medicine
UCSF Fresno Emergency Medicine Residency
Attending Physician, Emergency Department, Community Reginal Medical Center, Fresno
Assistant Program Director, UCSF Fresno Emergency Medicine
Critical event debriefing, interprofessional feedback, palliative care in the ED
Soccer, cycling, gardening, hiking, and being a new mom
Seek out and cultivate relationships that allow you to be transparent with your knowledge gaps. Take the initiative to learn what you don’t know.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco – Internal Medicine Residency
University of California, San Francisco – Gastroenterology Fellowship
Core clinical faculty, SFVA Gastroenterology Section
Director of GI Clinic, SFVA Gastroenterology Section
Director of Quality, Safety, and Value, SFVA Gastroenterology Section
SFVA Site Director, UCSF GI Fellowship Program
Esophageal motility disorders, disorders of gut-brain interaction, quality improvement, medical education.
Exploring the outdoors with my husband and young son, traveling the world, cooking, and spending time with family.
Learn from the challenges that life presents you. You can do hard things, and you will be stronger for it.
Northwestern University Medical School
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Transitional Internship
UCLA-Olive View Emergency Medicine Residency
Attending Physician, Emergency Department, ZSFG
Ethics and Palliative Care residency curriculum coordinator
Scribe Director, Emergency Department, ZSFG
CMC (Clinical Microsystems Clerkship) Faculty Site Director, ZSFG (Department of Emergency Medicine)
Communication skills, palliative care, clinical ethics, use of scribes
Tennis, cycling, blues guitar, and mandolin
Be passionate and listen to your gut.
University of Michigan Medical School
UCSF-SFGH Emergency Medicine Residency
Associate Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
Attending Physician, UCSF Parnassus Emergency Department
Clerkship Co-Director, Emergency Medicine
Medical education, mentorship, sports medicine, diversity, equity and inclusion in medicine with a focus on promoting and advancing the careers of women in Emergency Medicine and people from historically disadvantaged backgrounds into leadership positions and beyond.
Finding that sweet spot that integrates a life in academic emergency medicine with life with my twin boys, amazing partner, and the family that we've built. Travel, good food, good company, new adventures, and lots of exercise so I can eat all of that good food.
Everyone has a story – sometimes, all they need is for you to listen. Take time for yourself, take a nap, eat and use the bathroom! Everything will still be there when you get back.
Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
UCSF Internal Medicine Residency
Hospitalist and Internal Medicine Wards Attending at ZSFG
Clinical Operations Lead for ZSFG Division of Hospital Medicine
Medical education, clinical operations, care of underserved patients, diagnosis in medicine.
Traveling, musical theater, going to the beach, hiking, an addictive TV series, board games, and spending time with family, friends, and my cat.
Perfect can be the enemy of good.
