A new, limited-series podcast from the UCSF Office of Graduate Medical Education (GME) shares the specific clinical, teaching, advocacy, and systems skills today’s residents and fellows need to be leaders in the clinical learning environment.   

The podcast series is hosted by Erick Hung, MD, UCSF Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF School of Medicine Associate Dean for Students, and the former Director of Curricular Affairs for GME for the UCSF School of Medicine.   

"Residents and fellows are incredibly busy learners,” said Dr. Hung. He explained, “Podcasts provide an innovative teaching

Patricia O’Sullivan, EdD; Ann Poncelet, MD; Raquel Rodriquez, and Sandrijn van Schaik, MD, PhD are excited to share with you highlights of 2020 initiatives for the Center for Faculty Educators.

Focus on New Faculty
In 2019, the CFE began to consider strategies for promoting the visibility of our resources, specifically to new educators. Our staff team conducted interviews with new faculty in various departments to learn from them what they wish they knew when they started their work as educators at UCSF. This year, we plan to continue our work with department leaders, such as Vice-Chairs for

In 2018, Drs. Mengesha, Hill, and Autry implemented a Microaggressions Grand Rounds series in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at UCSF. The purpose of this series was to foster ongoing departmental dialogue on bias and inequity in patient care, learning environments, and workplace culture. There was an intentional focus on developing strategies to generate accountability towards creating an anti-oppressive departmental climate. This series has included topics such as Microaggressions in the Learning Environment, Navigating Expressed Bias and Racism between

The AME workshop on Building Your Negotiating Toolkit was starting, and room 1406 at Mission Hall was nearly full. Our intrepid moderators Rebecca Berman, MD, and Rebecca Shunk, MD, instructed, “Raise your hand if you have confidence in your negotiating skills.” Not a single hand went up. Impressive. It is possible confidence was higher at the Parnassus and Fresno workshop sites, capably moderated by Calvin Chou and Serena Yang. Still, data suggest that many of us are distinctly uncomfortable with negotiation. I needed this workshop, and I was not alone.

Your BATNA – Always Be Prepared
The

This year’s visiting Presidential Chair, Dr. Cees van der Vleuten, delivered his keynote address on programmatic assessment. All assessment mechanisms involve necessary trade-offs of reliability, validity, educational impact, acceptability, and cost. Our mission as educators is not to develop an assessment that can be perfect in every way, but rather to make informed decisions about what to compromise on, and when.

Reliability, for example, is somewhat of a myth—no method is perfectly reliable—but we can statistically improve the reliability of our methods by using multiple data points for

The Education Showcase’s plenary session was a collection of presentations on innovative work, spotlighting several key areas in UCSF’s ongoing education efforts.

UCSF Fresno celebrated our 4^th annual UCSF Fresno Education Symposium and this year's keynote speaker was the AME’s Anda Kuo, MD. Dr. Kuo is currently the Co-Lead of the UCSF Child Health Equity Institute and the Founding Director of the UCSF Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved (PLUS Residency Program). She is also the co-founder of a statewide advocacy collaborative consisting of 14 pediatric residency training programs to improve child health within the state of California. Given her interests and expertise, she was the perfect person to address our faculty and learners about the

The Academy’s Fall Meeting introduced many members and their colleagues to a beginning conversation on equity pedagogy, with invited panelists who actively work in education and incorporate or study equity pedagogy. The panelists’ expertise ranged from theory-driven graduate and doctoral studies on education, focusing on issues of equity and race in society and policy; to high school education with unique curriculum development that creates a more

Posted in CFE News on October, 2, 2017