News for our Educator Community | Summer 2019
On Tuesday, September 10, the UCSF education community celebrates the graduating 2019 Teaching Scholars, who present their scholarly work in education in a mini-orals format. The graduate presentations highlight unique and key educational research and showcases projects across all UCSF schools. The event will also welcome the incoming class of new scholars for 2020.
Your UCSF profile adds value, and it is a useful online tool to reflect your work in medical education and connect you to your peers. The Academy summer meeting provided an opportunity for educators to see the value in using UCSF profiles to easily display career highlights and work in a more interactive format than a CV. Academy member Peter Chin-Hong, MD ( https://profiles.ucsf.edu/peter.chin-hong ) walked AME members through some key strategies and practices in keeping your UCSF profiles up-to-date or getting starting if you don’t have one (or haven’t used it in a long time).
Center for Faculty Educators newest program, Learning and Caring Environment (LACE) plans to work with the Academy, education research, and faculty development programs to optimize the clinical learning environment with the vision to “support clinical faculty to co-create learning environments that optimize learning and well-being for all involved.”

Academy members have an important role in helping move LACE forward. How can this work can be aligned with Academy service and the Academy’s mission?
UCSF has several ways for individuals to develop their educational expertise, among them are the VA Fellowship in Health Professions Education Evaluation and Research, and a Masters of Arts in Education at University of California, Berkeley. For both of these programs, we congratulate our newest students and fellows:

  • Lindsey Haddock, MD, Department of Medicine
  • Nina Zhao, MD, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

  • Lindsey Haddock, MD, Department of Medicine
  • Nicole Munz, DO, Department of Emergency Medicine
  • Nina Zhao, MD, Department Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Register today to attend several events co-sponsored by the Kanbar Center for Simulation and the Center for Faculty Educators.

Thursday and Friday, September 26-27, 2019
Parnassus Campus


Thursday, September 26, 2019
  • Workshop: Learn to Love the Argument: Using Kane's Framework in Simulation-based Assessment, 1 to 3 p.m., S-157
  • Baum Family Faculty Scholars Program Kick-off Event & Med Ed Grand Rounds: Defensible Simulation-Based Assessment, 3 to 4 p.m., HSW-302

Friday, September 27, 2019
  • Inside the Black Box - Refining How We Address Educational and Clinical Issues, Noon to 1 p.m., Room HSW-302

These events are held in conjunction with the kickoff of the Baum Family Faculty Scholars Program. The program is funded through the Baum Family Presidential Chair for Experiential Learning.
The Academy's Summer meeting presented current topics on the state of the Academy's work in it's endowed chair program, and presented Academy members with an overview of the Learning and Caring Environment (LACE) initiative covers topic of interest to the educator community, and are available to anyone to use.
  • End of Year Academy updates and key initiatives in Health Professions Education
  • Key Tips and Strategies for Using UCSF Profiles as an Educator
  • CFE's New Unit: Learning and Caring Environment (LACE) Initiative
This year's keynote is H. Carrie Chen, MD, PhD, the Associate Dean of Assessment and Educational Scholarship and Professor of Pediatrics at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Dr. Chen is a former Academy member (2003-2016) and Academy endowed chair. In addition to her Celebration keynote, she will offer a special workshop on "Learner Advancement in Health Professions Training." This workshop and the Academy Celebration are open to the entire UCSF community.
The Center for Faculty Educators (CFE) hosts an annual ceremony for UCSF School of Medicine teaching awards. This year’s ceremony will take place on Wednesday, October 16, 2019.

The Distinguished Teaching Awards are presented to Volunteer Clinical Professors (VCP), and other UCSF teaching faculty, who have made significant contributions through excellence in teaching and in the field of medicine.

This monthly series features local and visiting scholars sharing their scholarly work in health professions education and inspiring us to think about how to apply the knowledge in our own education practice.

2019 WGEA Call for Mini-Grant Proposals: Advancing the WGEA as a Community of Educational Scholars

The call for proposals for the 2019 cycle is officially open. The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2019. Please review and download the grant proposal submission guidelines.


The 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 (“finishing award”).
Check each funding source for grant and funding opening dates, important deadlines, and submission requirements. Additional funding opportunities can be found on our website.
The CFE's Education Scientists consult as experts on educational matters with all UCSF professional schools at the UME, GME, and CME levels, and with individual faculty educational investigators. Weekly group consultations , a monthly journal club, regional and national conferences, and multi-institution research collaborations are part of the regular work of the group, and learners are involved at all levels. We welcome you to join the educational research community at UCSF.

Access List of Scholarship Opportunities : CFE supports several opportunities to present your work, on campus, regionally, nationwide, and internationally. Important deadlines and applications cycles are included in the listing. Please check our website regularly for events and opportunities to showcase your work. If you have any questions, please contact Patricia O'Sullivan, EdD, patricia.osullivan@ucsf.edu

CFE Funding Sources : CFE provides funding sources for faculty educators and researchers at UCSF and maintains an extensive list of additional funding from UCSF other external funding opportunities .
CFE and AME in the Literature - Recent Educational Scholarship
Bowen JL, Ilgen JS, Regehr G, Ten Cate O, Irby DM, O'Brien BC. Reflections From the Rearview Mirror: Internal Medicine Physicians' Reactions to Clinical Feedback After Transitions of Responsibility. Acad Med. 2019 Jun 11. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002831. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31192795

Chen SF, Deitz J, Batten JN, DeCoste-Lopez J, Adam M, Alspaugh JA, Amieva MR, Becker P, Boslett B, Carline J, Chin-Hong P, Engle DL, Hayward KN, Nevins A, Porwal A, Pottinger PS, Schwartz BS, Smith S, Sow M, Teherani A, Prober CG. A Multi-Institution Collaboration to Define Core Content and Design Flexible Curricular Components for a Foundational Medical School Course: Implications for National Curriculum Reform. Acad Med. 2019 Jun;94(6):819-825. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002663. PMID: 30801270 

Lee JS, Karliner LS, Julian KA, Linzer M, Feldman MD. Change in Faculty Perceptions of Burnout and Work Life in an Academic General Medicine Clinic: a Pre-Post Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2019 Jun 10. doi: 10.1007/s11606-019-05083-7. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available. PMID: 31183687

Harbell MW, Li D, Boscardin C, Pierluissi E, Hauer KE. Teaching Systems Improvement to Early Medical Students: Strategies and Lessons Learned. Acad Med. 2019 Jul 16. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002886. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31335811

Sheu L, Hauer KE, Schreiner K, van Schaik SM, Chang A, O'Brien BC. "A Friendly Place to Grow as an Educator": A Qualitative Study of Community and Relationships Among Medical Student Coaches. Acad Med. 2019 Jul 23. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002900. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31348059
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