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
- Each coach is assigned a group of about 6 first-year medical students to oversee throughout their medical school curriculum. As we begin this new program, coaches are also assigned 6-7 third-year medical students to provide additional support as those students complete medical school.
- 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:
Andrea Marmor, MD
Professor; Director of the Bridges Medical Student Coaching Program; School of Medicine Coach
Andrea Marmor, MD ProfileHarvard Medical School
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Internship in Pediatrics
UCSF Pediatrics Residency
USC Keck School of Medicine/Rossier School of Education, Masters in Medical Education
Attending pediatrician in the Pediatric Urgent Care, the Pediatric Inpatient Service, and the Pediatric Asthma/Allergy Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital Supervise trainees from UCSF's Peds and FCM residency programs, as well as medical students in these settings
Medical education is my primary focus, and I enjoy both clinical and classroom teaching. Favorite topics to teach include fever, pediatric emergencies, asthma and other respiratory illnesses, evidence-based medicine and pediatric trauma.
My young daughter is my main personal interest at the moment, and I am incredibly fortunate to be able to work part-time so I can participate in her daily explorations. I also enjoy painting, making jewelry, exercise, and being outside.
Do the right thing, as often as possible.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
"When credible people believe in you, prove them right. When ignorant people doubt you, prove them wrong" (Adam Grant).
UCSF Doctor of Medicine
Alameda Health Systems, Highland Hospital: Internal Medicine Internship
UC Irvine: Neurology Residency
Chief Resident, UC Irvine, Neurology
UCSF: Neuromuscular Fellowship
General Neurology
Neuromuscular Medicine
Neuromuscular medicine, medical education, brachial neuritis, diversity, equity and inclusion
Reading, spending time with family, travel, board games
Simple acts of kindness like a smile or a listening ear can bring light and joy to people you meet.
Tufts University School of Medicine
UCSF Internal Medicine Residency
UCSF Nephrology Fellowship
UCSF Advanced Training in Clinical Research (ATCR) Certificate
UCSF Teaching Scholars Program
Attending for Nephrology Consult Service, Hemodialysis Clinic, and Internal Medicine Inpatient Wards, SFVA
SFVA Site Director, UCSF Nephrology Fellowship
Medical education, electrolyte and acid-base disorders, dialysis, social determinants of health, systems improvement.
Exploring the Bay Area with my husband and child, craft projects, cooking.
In challenging situations, believe in the positive intent of those around you.
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
UCSF Internal Medicine Residency
UCSF Teaching Scholars Program
Attending for Internal Medicine Inpatient Wards, Co-Management Service, and Primary Care Clinic, SFVA
Core Faculty, Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education, SFVA
Faculty Mentor, VALOR Clerkship, SFVA
Deputy Associate Chief of Staff for Education, SFVA
Interprofessional education, health professions education and policy, transitions of care, systems improvement
Enjoying the outdoors with my family; hiking, snowboarding, rock climbing, cycling, music, travel.
Treat each person with compassion and respect. Reflect each day on something positive that happened. Cultivate resilience.
2017 - 2018 Internship: University of California, San Francisco-East Bay
2018 - 2023 Integrated Interventional Radiology Residency: University of Arizona Health Sciences, Tucson
I currently practice interventional radiology at SFGH and do additional rotations at other UC Health Sites.
I am interested in the complex interplay between healthcare disparities and interventional radiology, specifically how our clinical practice benefits from sustained research involving vulnerable populations. I am also interested in medical student and resident teaching, and getting medical students involved in all aspects of interventional radiology.
In my free time, I enjoy scaling the hills of SF and surrounding cities on my bike in the company of my fiancée. I am an avid WNBA, NBA, and NCAAW fan, and you can find me cheering on the Golden State Warriors (and eventually the Golden State Valkyries) at Chase!
Captain Picard said it best: “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose”. This especially applies to my field—we take care of some of the sickest patients, and despite our best efforts, we don’t always win. And I’ve learned that that’s part of medicine and the practice of medicine.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Osler Internal Medicine Residency
Hospitalist at ZSFG
Global health and health equity, medical education, feedback.
Baking, camping/backpacking, getting lost in books, traveling, binge-watching shows with my husband, exploring the world with my daughter.
Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously. Be kind and laugh.
Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
UCSF Anesthesiology Residency
UCSF Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship
Attending, Pediatric Anesthesia, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
Program Director, UCSF Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship
Co-Chair, UCSF BCH Perioperative Performance Improvement and Patient Safety Committee
Medical education, mentoring, quality improvement, wellness, communication
Traveling, spinning, reading, hiking with my toddler and husband, painting
Always take the time to invest in yourself. It’s worth it.
The Robert Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Internal Medicine Residency, Primary Care Track, Boston, MA
Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Siani, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship, Clinician Educator Track, New York, NY
Program for Post-Graduate Trainees: Future Academic Clinician-Educators, Harvard Macy Institute, Boston, MA
Tideswell Emerging Leaders in Aging Program, UCSF and the American Geriatrics Society (AGS)
UCSF Teaching Scholars Program
Leadership and Life Skills, AGS and Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Program
I am a staff physician in the primary care clinic and a geriatrician in geriatrics in the San Francisco VA
I am the geriatric medicine fellowship program director at UCSF.
I am a preceptor for internal medicine residents who have longitudinal primary care panels in the San Francisco VA.
I teach medical students in the Life Stages course, interprofessional learners in the primary care clinic (NP students and residents, pharmacy residents), geriatrics and palliative care fellows across the country about leadership and life skills, and staff in community-based organizations about geriatrics.
I develop online geriatrics curriculum to teach learners from all training backgrounds.
I see myself as a clinician educator with a passion in curriculum development, especially work-place related curriculum and models that involves interprofessional collaboration where different professions teach each other and learn together, so we can all better support older adults in our community to live well. I also love to develop longitudinal mentoring relationship with learners; and walking alongside with them in their professional development brings joy to my life.
I see myself as a clinician educator with a passion in curriculum development, especially work-place related curriculum and models that involves interprofessional collaboration where different professions teach each other and learn together, so we can all better support older adults in our community to live well. I also love to develop longitudinal mentoring relationship with learners; and walking alongside with them in their professional development brings joy to my life.
Live in the present.
She holds a M.D. from the Mayo Clinic and a J.D. with specialization in International Law from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Her areas of focus include incorporating social equity in emergency care through a civil liberties and international law lens. Her current research and advocacy projects span immigration health policy, reproductive health and autonomy, homelessness, carceral health, and increasing health equity for intersectional vulnerable populations.
In her free time, she enjoys exploring the mom-and-pop restaurants of San Francisco and fostering pups who need forever homes.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Northwestern University
University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine
UIC Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, Residency
UIC Internal Medicine, Chief Residency
Adult Hospitalist at UCSF Parnassus onwards, direct care, and consultation services
Director of DHM Clinical Coaching Program
Assistant Site Director of Medicine Clerkship at Parnassus
Patient advocacy, medical education, coaching, curriculum development, health equity, wellness
Travel, spending time with my 2 young kids, exploring Bay Area, painting, eating at new places
Life comes in phases. Be kind to yourself.
