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
UCSF Psychiatry Residency
Attending, Inpatient Psychiatry, ZSFG
Associate Program Director, UCSF Psychiatry Residency Training
Site Director Psychiatry Residency Training, ZSFG
Emergency psychiatry, severe mental illness, women's mental health, trauma, underserved populations, medical student/resident education and well being
Yoga, musical theater, reading, watching inane TV shows with my husband, being silly with my kids
Do your best to be kind, brave, and confident every day. That's all that matters.
UCSF School of Medicine
UCSF Internal Medicine Residency
Primary care physician, San Bruno VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC)
Internal Medicine ward attending, San Francisco VA
Preceptor/clinical supervisor, Medical Practice at SFVA and San Bruno CBOC
Site Director, San Bruno Primary Care Clinic for UCSF Medicine residents
Interprofessional education (Leadership team for the SFVA Center of Excellence for Primary Care Education), panel management (develop curriculum and facilitate sessions for interprofessional trainees at SFVA), remediation/mentorship (Director of Clinical Skills Guidance Program), primary care administration (Associate Director of Primary Care, SFVA and associated community clinics)
Family time (young daughter), pet time (chocolate lab), reading, online shopping
Never underestimate the value of truly getting to know everyone you are working with on a personal level.
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Family Medicine Provider at UCSF Lakeshore
Family Medicine Residency Preceptor at Family Health Center at SFGH
PISCES Family Medicine Liaison
Medical education, patient narratives and communication
Basketball, gardening, biking
Keep listening!
UCSF School of Medicine
UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Stanford Hospital and Clinics Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency
UCSF Primary Care Research Fellowship
Hospitalist, SF Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Director of Quality Improvement, SFVAMC Anticoagulation and Thrombosis Service
Co-Director of Quality Improvement, SFVAMC Medical Service
Communication and quality of care, complex decision making in older patients, patient safety and electronic medical records, electronic referral/consultation, anticoagulation and thrombosis, evidence-based physical exam
Running and being outdoors, singing, writing, and spending time with friends and family
You can have everything. You just can’t have it all at once.
When you’re having trouble making a decision, sometimes it helps to get more information.
University of Rochester School of Medicine
Yale-New Haven Primary Care Medicine Residency and Chief Residency
UCSF School of Medicine Teaching Scholars Program
UCSF Institute for Physician Leadership
Hospitalist, Moffitt-Long Medicine Service and Goldman Medical Service
CMC (Clinical Microsystems Clerkship) Faculty Site Director, UCSF Health (Division of Hospital Medicine)
Medication safety, medication reconciliation, care of the hospitalized older adult, acute care for the elderly, shared decision making/communication, faculty development
Cycling, soccer, and singing (in the car, much to the chagrin of my children)
Be patient, listen, and work in teams.
Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
UCSF General Surgery Residency, San Francisco, CA.
UCSF Abdominal Organ Transplant Fellowship, San Francisco, CA.
QEHB Senior International Fellowship, Liver Transplant ad MultiOrgan Procurement, Birmingham, UK.
Transplant surgery and general surgery in patients with end organ disease, UCSF.
Vice Chair, Transplant Quality Improvement Committee.
Transplant 160 elective course director.
Surgery 110 Transplant Surgery Course Director.
Liver, kidney and pancreas transplant
The treatment of liver cancer
Organ preservation and organ utilization
Living organ donation
Family, cycling, and doing absolutely nothing at all. Generally, minimizing my impact in most circumstances.
Presume your initial thoughts and reactions about any topic could be wrong, then take a moment to figure out what is correct, and why.
Urology
Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine
Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine Residency in Urology
UCSF Fellowship in Andrology
UC Davis Masters of Advanced Studies in Clinical Research
Associate Professor of Urology, UCSF
Staff Physician, Department of Urology, ZSGH
Committee on Admissions, UCSF School of Medicine
Medical education, sexual wellness, men reproductive health, chronic pelvic pain syndromes, voiding dysfunction
Cooking, spending time with my kids, travel, non-fiction reading
Two main lessons stand out: the first is that a professional does what they do every day as if they love it, no matter how they feel. The second is that it is essential to take responsibility when things go wrong; don’t try to pass the buck, even when it’s not your fault . . . just focus on making it better.
University of Tennessee: Medical School
Georgetown University: Preliminary Medicine Internship
Medical College of Georgia: Dermatology Residency
Attending: adult and pediatric county clinics
Attending: VA clinic and hospital coverage
Attending: Family Health Care Network telehealth clinics and Inspire Health clinic
GME and UME education
Bullous disorders
Three kids’ sports and music
Hiking, skiing, gardening, fishing
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is today. (Unknown citation both Chinese and Hebrew origin)
Pediatrics
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pediatric Residency
UCSF Child Neurology Residency and Chief Residency
UCSF Epilepsy Fellowship
Pediatric epileptologist, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Pediatric epilepsy, pediatric epilepsy surgery, medical education
Entertaining my kids, yoga, running, hiking, travel
Listen with intention, have compassion, and work in teams.
UCSF Health
Harvard Medical School
UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency
UCSF Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship
Attending Physician, Inpatient Psychiatry, ZSFG
Attending Physician, Outpatient Geriatric Psychiatry, UCSF Health
Geriatric psychiatry, HIV psychiatry, LGBTQ+ health, neurocognitive disorders, medical education, mentorship
Yoga, road biking, hiking, weightlifting and fitness, wine tasting, spending time with my dog and partner, and exploring the food and bakery scene in San Francisco.
Always give your best but allow your best to be good enough.
