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 Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine
Cedars Sinai Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency
UCSF Nephrology Fellowship
UCSF Fellowship in Polycystic Kidney Disease
UCSF Health Professions Education Pathway
Nephrology Consult Service at UCSF and ZSFG
Nephrology Clinic at UCSF Parnassus
Dialysis rounds at Satellite Healthcare and Fresenius Kidney Care
Polycystic kidney disease, CKD-related bone mineral disorders, medical education, mentoring, San Joaquin Valley
Traveling, playing violin, baking, watching plays/musicals, trying new restaurants, bingeing on Netflix shows, jetskiing, learning calligraphy, yoga
From Maya Angelou: “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
UCSF Health
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
UCSF-SFGH Emergency Medicine residency
Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, UT Austin Dell Children’s Medical Center
UCSF Health Professions Education Pathway
Attending, SFGH emergency department
Attending, Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco emergency department
Director of Didactics, UCSF-SFGH Emergency Medicine residency
Assistant Medical Director of PEM, SFGH
Medical education, bioethics, diversity/equity/inclusion in health, pediatric trauma, leadership & communication, interprofessional education
Running, biking, swimming, yoga, meditation, theater, going to concerts, reading
Even though sometimes it may feel as if we’re more efficient working alone, we achieve unimaginable things through collaboration—grab a friend!
Two small phrases from Zen Buddhism that particularly resonate: 1) Pain is inevitable; suffering is a choice. 2) Acceptance is NOT approval. We will all have pain in our lives, and via acceptance we move away from suffering and toward recovery and resilience.
Harvard Medical School – Medical Doctorate
Harvard Medical School – Brigham and Women’s Anesthesiology Residency
Stanford University Medical Center – Clinical Pain Medicine Fellowship
Stanford University Medical Center – Clinical Excellence Research Center Fellowship
Institute for Healthcare Improvement – Improvement Advisor Professional Development Program
Associate Clinical Professor
Director, Anesthesia Pain Services, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Attending, Anesthesiology, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Healthcare economics, entrepreneurship, digital health, organizational leadership
Cycling, birdwatching, international politics, Neapolitan pizza
In any organization relationships are everything. Nurturing them will help you reach your goals and leads to great personal fulfillment.
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.
