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In 2011, after years of planning, a teaching and learning center opened on the second floor of the Kalmanovitz Library on the UCSF Parnassus campus. All of the health professions schools at UCSF helped design the facility and established programming, according to UCSF Associate Dean of Medical Education Kevin Souza. “People really wanted to work together to create something that was special for UCSF.”

When Gabriela Steiner, a second-year medical student learned about the Human Rights Collaborative — a student-run organization that conducts forensic trauma evaluations for asylum seekers — she jumped at the opportunity.

“At UCSF you have the opportunity to really be involved and directly work with asylum seekers,” Steiner said. “That’s incredible, and something you can’t find at most schools.”

After a whirlwind of orientation and an intensive six-week block of classes called Ground School, this year’s incoming class of UCSF medical students marked their rite of passage into the medical profession as part of a virtual White Coat Ceremony.  

You are invited to celebrate the graduation of the Teaching Scholars Program (TSP) Class of 2021 at an informal ceremony, along with Dean Talmadge King. Seventeen faculty members will have completed this year’s Teaching Scholars Program. These faculty members have acquired knowledge and skills related to teaching, leadership, and educational research this year.

We hope you can join us to support and congratulate these faculty members upon their graduation: