Annual Education Showcase

Education Showcase 2025
April 28 and April 29
Mission Hall, Mission Bay Campus

The Center for Faculty Educators presents UCSF's 24th Annual Education Showcase, an event that highlights and celebrates the scholarly work of UCSF faculty, fellows, residents, students and staff. The showcase will be filled with opportunities for faculty development and to see the variety and quality of innovative educational work produced by our UCSF colleagues throughout the year.

The program will feature peer-reviewed oral presentations, workshops, topics tables, and more. All members of the UCSF community are invited to participate. We encourage those involved in health professions education,

Keynote - Monday, April 28

Rola Ajjawi, PhD, The University of British Columbia (UBC)

Dr. Rola Ajjawi is a Medical Education Research Professor. She studied physiotherapy and became a clinical teacher before completing a PhD in health professions education examining how clinical reasoning is learned and communicated in practice. She leads several programs of research into feedback and workplace learning cultures, student failure and success, and latterly belonging and well-being in health professions education. Her research has attracted over $2.5 million in funding and is well cited with her latest edited volume published in 2023: Ajjawi R, Tai J, Boud D, and Jorre de St Jorre T. (Eds.) Assessment for Inclusion in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Social Justice (Routledge, open access). Rola is Deputy Editor of the journal Medical Education and chair of the International Association for Health Professions Education (AMEE) Research Committee. She was awarded a Karolinska Institutet Fellowship in 2021 for excellence in medical education research. She is lead guest editor of a special issue of Teaching in Higher Education: Reconsidering the role of authenticity in assessment in higher education and is editing a virtual special issue of the journal Medical Education on gender.

Schedule

Join us for a light breakfast to kick-off the 2025 Education Showcase!