News for our Educator Community | Feb/March 2019
Our educator community at UCSF provides an opportunity to recognize faculty and share their stories. Academy member Beth Harleman, MD (Sustaining membership; class of 2005) was recently featured by the department of medicine. In her new role as the Associate Chair for Faculty Experience in the Department of Medicine, Dr. Harleman supports faculty at varying stages of their career at UCSF, providing support and resources supporting well-being, promotion and training, and building community that help shape the department's core values.
Incorporating programmatic assessment into the learning environment at UCSF will involve developing a feedback culture that maintains dialogue between learner and faculty and among faculty as peers. UCSF Presidential Chair in Education, Cees Van der Vleuten, PhD, stressed the value of providing ongoing assessment and feedback to learners early and often. Feedback is not about commenting on an observation, but rather allowing the person receiving feedback to: tell their narrative, discover for themselves the areas in which they need support, and articulate where their challenges and success stories are.
Cees van der Vleuten, PhD
Join us as we welcome visiting scholar Gönül Dilaver, MSc, PhD from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Dr. Dilaver will discuss how both Utrecht University and University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht have made diversity and inclusion as one of their main priorities through initiatives to promote inclusive education and their principles in creating a diversity responsive climate. Our grand rounds are offered live or live streamed, register for the session whichever session meets your schedule needs.
Join the AME for their annual summer meeting. The Academy's Summer Meeting supports the growth of schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy teachers through formal faculty development activities and by sponsoring educational seminars, mentoring, colloquia and retreats focused on graduate and undergraduate medical education. This meeting is open to the UCSF community.
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, [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 .
CFE and AME in the Literature - Recent Educational Scholarship
Anelah K. McGinness, Maria Wamsley, Josette Rivera, Assessing interprofessional collaboration: pilot of an interprofessional feedback survey for first-year medical students, Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice (2019), doi: 10.1016/j.xjep.2019.03.012

Harman SM, Blankenburg R, Satterfield JM, Monash B, Rennke S, Yuan P, Sakai DS, Huynh E, Chua I, Hilton JF; Promoting Shared Decision-Making Behaviors During Inpatient Rounds: A Multimodal Educational Intervention. Patient Engagement Project. Acad Med. 2019 Mar 19. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002715.

Lall, M. D., Gaeta, T. J., Chung, A. S., Dehon, E., Malcolm, W., Ross, A., Way, D. P., Weichenthal, L., Himelfarb, N. T. (2019). Assessment of Physician Well-being, Part One: Burnout and Other Negative States. The western journal of emergency medicine, 20(2), 278-290.

Gruppen LD, Irby DM, Durning SJ, Maggio LA. Conceptualizing Learning Environments in the Health Professions. Acad Med. 2019 Mar 12. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002702.

Pepper J, Riegels N, Ziv T, Mazotti L, 2019, 'Twelve Tips for Students in Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships', MedEdPublish, 8, [1], 59, https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2019.000059.1

Steinert Y, O'Sullivan PS, Irby DM. Strengthening Teachers' Professional Identities Through Faculty Development. Acad Med. 2019 Mar 5. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002695.
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