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 Washington Medical School
University of Washington Internal Medicine Residency
University of Washington Harborview Chief Resident
Hospitalist, Moffitt-Long Medicine Service and Goldman Medicine Service
Assistant Director, Moffitt-Long Medicine Service
Assistant Medical Director, Medicine UBLT
Medical education, curriculum development, quality improvement, communication skills
Having fun with my toddler!
Bring your true self to every role in life
Stanford School of Medicine
UCSF General Internal Medicine-Primary Care Residency
UCSF Teaching Scholars Program
Associate Medical Director, Division of General Internal Medicine
Educational Site Director, General Internal Medicine Clinic at Sutter Street
Patient-centered medical home, HIV medicine, healthy aging, chronic disease management
Hiking, baking bread, brewing kombucha, complicated board games, cultivating a San Francisco garden
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.
UCLA School of Medicine
Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Diagnostic Radiology Residency
UCSF Medical Center, Diagnostic Radiology Residency
UCSF Medical Center, Vascular and Interventional Radiology Fellowship
Interventional Radiology (IR) Attending at ZSFG, UCSF and SFVA Hospitals
Associate Program Director, Independent Interventional Radiology Residency Program
Course Director, Rad 170.08, Introduction to Interventional Radiology
Clerkship Director, Rad 130.03 CIEx, Introduction to IR Clinical Immersions
Trauma, bleeding, dialysis access and maintenance, portal hypertension, interventional oncology, chest tube management, patient advocacy, health inequity, humanism in procedural care, medical student education, medical student recruitment
Being a dad and husband, drone photography, cooking, gardening, National Parks, dogs.
Don’t forget to fill your cup. Invest in yourself; your physical, emotional and spiritual health. Sleep hygiene is more important then ever. Listen and learn from the Human Doctor Podcast.
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.
University of California San Diego School of Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Internal Medicine Residency
UCSF Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
UCSF Lung Transplant Fellowship
UCSF Teaching Scholars Program
Vice Chief, Clinical Operations, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine
Attending, UCSF Advanced Lung Disease inpatient service
Attending, UCSF Lung Transplant Program Pre- and Post-transplant ambulatory clinics
Attending, UCSF Cancer Center Pulmonary Medicine Ambulatory Clinic
Advanced lung diseases (interstitial lung disease, COPD, cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis), pleural disease, pulmonary nodules, lung cancer, medical education, and quality improvement
Skiing, swimming, reading, traveling, and spending time with my two daughters.
Find what brings you joy and fulfillment. Spend more time doing that!
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
