Sirisha Narayana, MD

Dr. Narayana is Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of Education for the Division of Hospital Medicine and Associate Director of the Diagnostic Reasoning (DR) block in the Bridges curriculum. In the DR block, students learn frameworks for and how to assess clinical reasoning skills. Dr. Narayana’s primary teaching responsibility is attending on the inpatient medicine wards with medical students and residents, where she challenges her trainees to be deliberate and reflective decision-makers. She also facilitates small groups, leads large group sessions in the DR block, and as a Bridges coach, she mentors and teaches patient care skills and health systems improvement, to twelve first and third-year medical students. Dr. Narayana has received the UCSF Class of 2016 Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2016 AME Excellence in Teaching Award, and the 2017 Department of OB/GYN Outstanding Resident Teaching Award. She also serves as a resident advisor and medicine confidential career advisor. Dr. Narayana developed a self-directed feedback program for medicine residents and the Integrated Clinical Skills curriculum. She completed the Teaching Scholars Program in 2017. Wrote Division Chief Dr. Bradley Sharpe, “Dr. Narayana has established a track record as a stellar teacher, and innovator in curriculum design and scholarship, and a leader in medical education.”