Rebecca Berman, MD
Professor
Rebecca Berman, MD, FACP is UCSF's Internal Medicine Residency program director. After completing her chief residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in 2009, she joined Mass General Hospital, where she built a network of student-faculty primary care practices, the Crimson Care Collaborative (CCC). Over 1000 Harvard Medical students have participated in CCC gaining early exposure to primary care, to care for the underserved and interprofessional education opportunities. In 2013, Dr. Berman returned to BWH to direct its primary care residency program before being recruited to UCSF in 2018. Dr. Berman has navigated the residency through COVID and completely overhauled the clinical curriculum to provide more opportunities for individualized training and to improve resident work hours.
Dr. Berman is a Councilor of the National Association of Program Directors of Internal Medicine (APDIM). She was the founder and co-leader of APDIM's Primary Care Program Director Group and is the editor of their Primary Care Toolkit, now in its third edition, which offers a blueprint for building and strengthening primary care tracks. To help reduce pay disparities and improve diversity in medical leadership positions, she teaches nationally on negotiation skills for physicians. Other areas of interest include medical education, diversifying the physician workforce, novel curricular design, health literacy, women in medicine and care for the underserved.
Dr. Berman is a Councilor of the National Association of Program Directors of Internal Medicine (APDIM). She was the founder and co-leader of APDIM's Primary Care Program Director Group and is the editor of their Primary Care Toolkit, now in its third edition, which offers a blueprint for building and strengthening primary care tracks. To help reduce pay disparities and improve diversity in medical leadership positions, she teaches nationally on negotiation skills for physicians. Other areas of interest include medical education, diversifying the physician workforce, novel curricular design, health literacy, women in medicine and care for the underserved.
