Teaching Scholars Program Welcomes New Class for 2023-2024 Academic Year

The Teaching Scholars Program (TSP) is a yearlong program in health professions education and education scholarship. It is accessible to faculty from all UCSF professional schools through a competitive application process. The graduates go on to enrich their learning environments with their new knowledge and have helped the incoming class of new scholars recognize that they are linked to a long UCSF tradition of valuing the role of educators and education scholarship to enhance learning.

The application and selection process strives to select a cohort of teaching scholars that reflects

Teaching Scholars Program Graduation 2023: Building Our Scholarly Community

On September 5, the UCSF education community is invited to the final presentations of the graduating 2023 Teaching Scholars, who will present their scholarly work in education in a mini-orals format. The graduates' presentations highlight unique and key educational research and showcases projects across all UCSF schools.

The Teaching Scholars Program (TSP) is a yearlong program in health professions education and education scholarship. It is accessible to faculty from all UCSF professional schools through a competitive application process. The graduates go on to enrich their learning

A Chat with John Young, MD, MPP, PhD, Education Showcase 2023 Keynote Speaker

This year’s Education Showcase keynote, Dr. John Young, invited us to revisit the importance of considering Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) for the learning environment. Dr. Young shared his experiences using CLT in the clinical learning environment at his institution and presented his ongoing research of how CLT provides a framework to improve the learning experience, reduce learner fatigue and stress, and improve patient care. Dr. Young also presented next steps in his CLT work that consider further the effects of emotion in cognitive learning.

He's been at his research for a long time, and we

New EJE Works-in-Progress to Empower and Elevate the Dialogue on Equity and Justice in Education

Since its inception, the Equity and Justice in Education (EJE, pronounced “edge”) Works-in-Progress meetings provide a supportive and welcoming forum to promote and guide educational scholarship on equity, justice, diversity, and inclusion health sciences education. The monthly meetings empower educators, education researchers, and learners to utilize rigorous education research methodology to identify bias and unequal power distribution to advance equitable and inclusive solutions in opportunity and achievement across the continuum of health sciences education. EJE has tackled topics such as

Opportunities for COVID-19 Related Education Scholarship

Many educators are having novel experiences during COVID-19 that they are interested in disseminating.

As you think about options for disseminating, consider the following:

  1. Did I use a scholarly process to create the work? (e.g., did I draw on existing literature, evidence, theory). This will greatly enhance the likelihood of your work being published
  2. Is what I produced or studied likely to have sustained impact? To be used or have implications beyond COVID-19?
  3. Is there some generalizable knowledge to be learned from what I produced, from my study, or from my experience?

UCSF Student Shannon Chan Wins Best Poster Prize at WGEA 2019

UCSF Student Shannon Chan (Class of 2019) received the Best Poster Prize at WGEA 2019 this past March for the poster titled, "Understanding the Role of Residents as Teachers within Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship Program." Working with Patricia O'Sullivan, EdD in the CFE, and Leslie Sheu, MD, from the Department of Medicine, Chan's research looked at the role of residents as teachers in longitudinal clerkships. Chan's work highlighted that creating greater opportunities for residents and LIC students to work together can improve the LIC learning experience, improve patient care, and promote

Peter Chin-Hong, MD, Wins Best Oral Presentation Award at WGEA 2019

Peter Chin-Hong, MDAcademy of Medical Educators member Peter Chin-Hong, MD, was awarded the prize for Best Oral Presentation in the Category of Research on March 26, 2019, at the recently concluded WGEA meeting in Reno, NV. In his paper "Impact of an innovative endowed chair program on medical educator recipients," Chin-Hong and team investigators Helen Loeser, MD, MSc; Alissa Peterson, MD; Raga Ramachandran, MD, PhD; and Patricia O’Sullivan, EdD examined the impact of holding an endowed chair for medical educators on individual chair holders. In 2001, the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators established a matched

Call for Abstracts: UCSF Education Showcase - Submit by January 23

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

WGEA Call for Mini-Grant Proposals Now Open

The Western Group on Educational Affairs (WGEA) seeks to promote scholarship in medical education and advance the community of scholarship within the Western region. To that end, funds are available for investigators via a mini-grant program. Investigators can request up to $5,000 to initiate a new study or up to $1,000 for completing an ongoing study.

Eligibility:

  • The Principle Investigator must be a faculty member at a WGEA member school
  • Applicants may submit only one proposal per cycle and may not be an author on any other proposal currently receiving WGEA and national GEA funding
  • App

Teaching Scholars Program Graduates 2018: Building Our Scholarly Community

audience interaction in the scholarly presentations
Mini-orals format allows interactive participation between scholars and colleagues. Photo by Cindy Chew

On September 11, the UCSF education community celebrated the graduating 2018 Teaching Scholars, who presented their scholarly work in education in a mini-orals format. The graduates' presentations highlight unique and key educational research and showcases projects across all UCSF schools.

The Teaching Scholars Program (TSP) is a yearlong program in health professions education and education scholarship. It is accessible to faculty from all UCSF professional schools through a competitive application process. The graduates go on to enrich their learning environments with their new knowledge