University of California San Francisco
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Master's Program in Education

About the Master of Arts in Education at UC Berkeley

UCSF has a collaborative relationship with the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley School of Education to offer a Master of Arts in Education. The program prepares individuals in the research methodologies needed to undertake research studies in health professions education. Students receive mentoring from faculty in the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education and the UCSF Center for Faculty Educators. In order to participate in this program, you must be a current UCSF faculty, fellow, or resident.

Goals

  • Develop a basis in cognition and research methods appropriate to health professions education.
  • Develop depth in the educational literature to guide research questions.
More about the Program
  • In order to participate in this program, you must be a current UCSF faculty, fellow, or resident.
  • The application deadline is December 1 of the year preceding enrollment.
  • The GRE is waived for applicants who hold a professional degree.
  • UCSF faculty, fellows, residents, and students can be eligible for reduced-fee tuition at UC Berkeley.
  • Candidates must have completed or be concurrently enrolled in either the Pathway to Discovery in Health Professions Education or the Teaching Scholars Program and may be eligible for 6 credits toward their MA degree.
  • UCSF faculty from the Center for Faculty Educators provide mentoring to MA candidates from UCSF.
  • Pre-application consultation needs to be completed prior to application submission to UC Berkeley.
Current Students
NameDepartmentThesis Title

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Timothy Dyster, MD

Medicine 

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Odi Ehie, MD

Anesthesia and Perioperative Care 

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Ilana Krumm, MD 

Medicine 

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Alyssa Murillo, MD

Surgery 

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April Zaat, MD

Pediatrics 

Riley Brian

Riley Brian, MD
2023 (Anticipated)

Surgery 

Tiffany Chambers

Tiffany Chambers, MD
2023 (Anticipated)

Medicine 

Christopher Leba

Christopher Leba, MD, MPH
2023 (Anticipated)

Medicine 

Shareef Syed

Shareef Syed, MBChB, MRCS
2023 (Anticipated)

Surgery 

 

Program Graduates
NameDepartmentThesis Title

Sara Sani, MD

Sara Sani, MD, MAEd

MedicinePulling Back The Curtain: How Physician-Educators Decide to Share their Limitations and Doubts with Trainees in a Clinical Learning Environment (2023)

Mike Cheng, MD

Mike Cheng, MD, MAEd
 

MedicineFlow for Resident Clinic: Evaluation of the Flow Resident Primary Clinic Workflow Model Redesign Targeting Medical Assistant and Resident Teamwork (2022)
 

Dana Larsen, MD

Dana Larsen, MD, MAEd
 

MedicineMeasuring Nephrology Fellow's Engagement with FOAMed using Rasch Model Analysis (2022)

Audrey Nguyen, MD

Audrey Nguyen, MD, MAEd
 

SurgeryOverlapping Worlds of Art and Plastic Surgery: Implications for Surgical Training (2022)

Gabriel Sarah

Gabriel Sarah, MD, MAEd

Anesthesia and Perioperative CareEntrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) in the UCSF Anesthesia Residency (2022)

Tomas Diaz, MD, MA

Tomas Diaz, MD, MAEd

Emergency MedicineNot so Black and White - An Exploration of Gender and Skin Tone in Academic Emergency Physician Evaluations of Medical Students Presentations (2021)

April Edwell, MD

April Edwell, MD, MAEd

PediatricsRace in Graduate Medical Education (2021)

Stephanie Hsia, PharmD

Stephanie Hsia, PharmD, MAEd

Clinical PharmacyProgram Evaluation of a Health Equity Curriculum for Pharmacy Students (2021)

Margaret Robinson, MD

Margaret Robinson, MD, MAEd

PediatricsAutonomy and Supervision in Post-Graduate Medical Training (2021)

Julie Shalen

Julia Shalen, MD, MAEd

PediatricsEPA Assessments and Self-regulated learning (2021)

Lindsey Haddock, MD

Lindsey Haddock, MD, MAEd

MedicineCo-Learning: How Faculty and Trainees Learn Together in the Workplace (2020)

Nicole Munz, DO

Nicole Munz, DO, MAEd

Emergency MedicineAssessing emergency medicine residents' procedural competency (2020)

Nina Zhao, MD

Nina Zhao, MAEd

OtolaryngologyEvidence for Response Process and Consequential Validity of the SIMPL Assessment for Operative Feedback (2020)

Sam Brondfield, MD, MA

Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd

MedicineCognitive Load in Inpatient Consult Residents and Fellows: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Study (2019)

Katharine Gruenberg, PharmD, MA

Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD, MAEd

Clinical PharmacyA Characterization of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience Readiness by Faculty, Preceptors, and Students (2019)

Jillian Mongelluzzo, MD, MA

Jillian Mongelluzzo, MD, MAEd

Emergency MedicineStandardized Letters of Evaluation: Evaluating the Assessment of Performance Based on Gender and Race/Ethnicity of Residency Applicants in Emergency Medicine (2019)

Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MA

Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAEd

MedicineDistributed Cognition in the “Open” Intensive Care Unit: Barriers & Affordances of This Clinical Learning Environment (2019)

Emily Abdoler

Emily Abdoler, MD, MAEd

MedicineTherapeutic Reasoning Underlying Antibiotic Choice (2018)

Courtney Green

Courtney Green, MD, MAEd

SurgeryRobotics in the Operating Room: How does this new technology influence skill acquisition and how can educators ensure they keep up? (2018)

Mindy Ju, MD, MA

Mindy Ju, MD, MAEd

PediatricsHealth Professionals' Perception of Leadership Based on Gender and Professional Background (2018)

Brian Gin, MD, PhD, MA

Brian Gin, MD, PhD, MAEd

PediatricsItem response theory for dyadic data (2016)

Daphne Lo, MD, MAEd

Daphne Lo, MD, MAEd

MedicinePositive Interprofessional Workplace Learning Environments: Psychological safety on an inpatient interprofessional team (2016)

Mark Dellinges

Mark Dellinges, DDS, FACP, MAEd

Preventive and Restorative Dental SciencesWill a Short Training Session Improve In-House Multiple Choice Item-Writing by Dental School Faculty? (2015)

Leslie Floren, PharmD

Leslie Floren, PharmD, MAEd

BioengineeringHealthWISE: Adverse Drug Reaction Basics, Creation and Evaluation of a WISE Learning Module for Pharmacists in Training (2015)

Emily Huang, MD

Emily Huang, MD, MAEd

SurgeryFrom Novice to Master Surgeon: Improving Feedback with a Descriptive Approach to Intraoperative Assessment (2014)

Sandra Oza, MD

Sandra Oza, MD, MAEd

MedicineMedical Students’ Use of Collaborative Communication During an Interprofessional Standardized Patient Encounter (2013)
Natalie Burman, DO, MAEdPediatricsLifelong Learning and Self-Directed Learning: The Importance of Cognitive and Metacognitive Skills (2012)

Kristie White, MD

Kristie White, MD, MAEd

PathologyDevelopment of an Assessment Tool Using the Web-Based Science Environment (WISE) to Determine Diagnostic Neuropathology Competency: A Practical Model for Pathology Residency Training (2012)
Sarah Wilson, MD, MAEdObstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive SciencesThe Development and Evaluation of a Measurement Tool to Assess a Provider's Interprofessional and Intraprofessional Communication Skills (2013)
Additional Resources

For more information contact the Master's Program co-faculty liaisons: Christy Boscardin at [email protected], or Patricia O'Sullivan at [email protected]. You may also contact the Advanced Degrees Program Coordinator Ivan Mendez at [email protected].