UCSF Fresno celebrated its 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 importance of educating future physicians and to address the root causes of poor health.

Academy members, Andrea Marmor, MD, MSEd (AME Class of 2014) and  Pinelopi Xenoudi, DDS, MS (AME Class of 2017 and TSP Class 2014-2015) are recipients of the 2019 Distinction in Teaching Award, by UCSF's Academic Senate.

Recipients of the Academic Senate Distinction In Teaching Awards and the Distinction In Mentoring Awards were honored at the Senate’s Distinguished Faculty Awards Ceremony on May 16.

Mentoring Future Academic Clinician-Educators? Support their growth and encourage them to apply!

The Harvard Macy Institute’s Program for Post-Graduate Trainees: Future Academic Clinician-Educators

Course date: December 7 – 9, 2019

Application deadline: June 30, 2019

This 3-day intensive program is focused on post-graduate trainees (residents and fellows) who seek to enhance their skills and scholarship as future academic clinician-educators. The course content is focused on two major themes: skills in teaching and learning AND developing scholarship in medical education. Learning formats rely on small group project work and problem-solving, interactive small group activities with individualized feedback, and large group case-based discussion.

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.

WGEA Mini-Grant Proposal Guidelines (PDF)

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, [email protected]

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 .