UCSF's 2025 Education Showcase Highlights Educational Scholarship of Faculty, Students, Trainees, and Staff
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In late April, the Center for Faculty Educators hosted UCSF's 2025 Education Showcase, which highlighted the work of UCSF's faculty, staff, and learners in health professions education and educational scholarship. The Education Showcase included more than 80 presentations, with more than 70 being mini-oral presentations. All presentations emphasized the extensive collaborations among and between faculty and learners about the latest educational scholarship at UCSF and abroad. Two plenary sessions included teams nominated for the Cooke Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, which is the award given to the best abstract submissions by the AME Scholarship Committee for the Education Showcase.
The 2025 Cooke Award was presented to the following abstract submissions:
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Geronimo Garcia; Heejoo Ko, BA, BS; and Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd, for their work:
Transgender, Gender-expansive, and Non-binary Medical Student Perspectives on Medical Education -
Mahika Nayak, BS; and Monica Hahn, MD, MPH, MS, for their work:
Examining Clinical Algorithms in Medicine: A Case-Based Approach to eGFR, Spirometry, and ASCVD
Attendees also learned about the latest research in feedback and the clinical learning environment from the invited keynote speaker, Rola Ajjawii, PhD, from the University of British Columbia. 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. Dr. Ajjawi's presentation is now available online. Check out the Education Showcase Program Book for a complete list of mini-orals, workshops, and plenary sessions.
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