On December 5th, students and faculty filled the Mission Bay Conference Center for the eighth annual UCSF School of Medicine Clinical Microsystems Clerkship Health Systems Improvement Symposium. The event celebrated the efforts of 163 medical students who completed a year and a half of work on quality improvement at UCSF-affiliated clinical sites as part of the Clinical Microsystems Clerkship (CMC) component of the Foundations 1 curriculum. Thirty teams of students, each led by a faculty coach, tackled projects aimed at enhancing patient care across UCSF Health sites, Zuckerberg San Francisco

The UCSF School of Medicine Post Baccalaureate Program (PBP) was established in the summer of 1999 to increase the enrollment of underserved, underrepresented and low-income students in medical school.

Twenty-five years later, the program is an exceptional success: 325 students have completed the program, and ninety-six percent of its alumni matriculate into medical school, with seventy-eight percent returning to practice in California and sixty-three percent serving non-English speaking patients and communities.

The program has made a tangible difference in increasing the number of

As the voices filling the Mission Bay Conference Center slowly simmered to a hush, UCSF School of Medicine Vice Dean for Education, Dr. Catherine Lucey, began her speech by saying, “Love is in the air here.” Although an unexpected opener to the sixth annual UCSF School of Medicine Clinical Microsystems Clerkship Health Systems Improvement Symposium, which celebrates UCSF medical students’ quality improvement work in their first year and a half of medical school, she went on to explain her unique theme. “Quality is love. You have to be able to love the patients who receive the care that we give

The Center for Faculty Educators (CFE) is proud to present UCSF's 18th Annual Education Showcase, an event that highlights the scholarly work of UCSF faculty, residents, and students, and encourages continued evaluation and dissemination of this work. This event is filled with opportunities for faculty development and to see the variety and quality of the work in which our UCSF colleagues are engaged throughout the year.

Our visiting scholar will be Cees van der Vleuten, PhD, UCSF Presidential Chair 2018-2019. Dr. van der Vleuten will deliver a keynote address, Work-based Assessment and

The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, in collaboration with the UCSF Program for Interprofessional Practice and Education and the UCSF Library, is pleased to announce 15 new Education Innovations Funding awards for the 2018-2019 academic year. Totaling $329,806, these intramural grants are expected to make significant contributions to educational excellence at UCSF. Working collaboratively to integrate programs and resources has expanded our capacity to provide the campus community with more efficient and effective support that leverages creative partnerships, raises the visibility