110 Medicine Core Clerkship (3 - 12 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): C. Lai, G. Dhaliwal, B. Phan Prerequisite(s): 3rd year standing.
Restrictions: UCSF medical students only. Activities: Direct - Seminar, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Seminar
The student will admit and follow a patient approximately every fourth night, and participate in team work rounds and attending rounds. In the ambulatory setting, the student will evaluate adult medical patients presenting to the general medical clinic and urgent care clinic for workup of acute new symptoms and for management of chronic illnesses. In the ambulatory setting, the student will work with an internal medical preceptor.
130.01 CIEx - Medication Management: Improving Patient Safety (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): S. Rennke Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Medical students are paired with pharmacy students, pharmacy residents and clinical pharmacists, in patient care activities and use interprofessional team-based communications to evaluate medication management for hospitalized patients.
130.02 CIEx - Nephrology Apprenticeship (1.5 - 3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): A. Malkina Prerequisite(s): Prior successful completion of Medicine 110
Restrictions: Medical students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will explore nephrology as career by participating in the inpatient setting. Students will join discussions on active nephrology cases, pathology conferences, and renal pathophysiology didactics.
130.03 CIEx - Gastroenterology (1.5 - 3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): S. Lewin Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will assist the team taking care of patients with common GI problems. Students will observe several common endoscopic procedures. Students will attend weekly GI grand rounds, twice weekly Liver teaching and monthly QI meeting.
130.04 CIEx - Pulmonary Medicine: Lung Transplant (1.5 - 4.5 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): L. Leard, S. Hays Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students participate fully on the inpatient Pulmonary Consult Service, interviewing, examining, presenting, and following up on patients. Students attend weekly conferences, conduct procedures, and learn pulmonary function interpretation.
130.07 CIEx - Inpatient Medicine/Cardiology Service (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): C. Lai Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students enrolled in the inpatient medicine immersion experience will be assigned to one of the inpatient teams (Medicine or Cardiology) for the entirety of their two-week block. Students will assume the traditional role of third-year clerks.
130.08A CIEx - Inpatient Medicine - Kaiser East Bay (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): A. Krassner Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. This is designed as a two-week immersive experience in inpatient Medicine targeted towards students interested in experiencing an integrated health care delivery system, particularly those in the PISCES program.
130.10 CIEx - Transplant Hepatology (1.5 - 3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): C. Sherman Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. This will include time in pre- and post-liver transplant clinic. Students will go to inpatient liver transplant service, working with residents, fellows and NPs. Students will also attend transplant selection conference and tumor board.
130.11 CIEx - The Art of Clinical Teaching (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Course will not be offered in: Fall 2022
Instructor(s): P. O'Sullivan, D. Irby Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Seminar, Direct - Independent Study, Student - Seminar
This elective will provide exposure to common teaching models used in the clinical setting. Specifically, students will learn about the One-Minute Preceptor Model for teaching in the outpatient setting and the SNAPPS model. The session will also cover the provision of feedback during a teaching encounter, as well as how to teach efficiently in challenging teaching situations. Students in this course will explore important elements of an academic teaching career in the clinical setting.
130.12 CIEx - Occupational and Environmental Medicine (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): R. Balogun Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will experience the work of an Occupational and Environmental Medicine subspecialist in the outpatient setting at two different clinical sites.Students will delve deeper in specific areas of clinical interest during this elective.
130.13 CIEX - Relationship-Centered Communication for Underserved (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Course will not be offered in: Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023
Instructor(s): E. Imbert Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Clinical Clerkship
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. This elective will teach students how to apply relationship centered communication (RCC) to underserved patients as part of the ZSFG hospital medicine team, to identify vulnerabilities, celebrate resiliency, & find common ground with patients.
130.14 CIEx - Introduction to Adult Hematology (1.5 - 3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): P. Cornett Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will experience the range of clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic activities that encompass the transdisciplinary discipline of hematology. Students will experience patients with a spectrum of hematologic disorders.
130.15 CIEx - Women's Health Elective - VAMC-SF (1.5 - 3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): A. Wilson Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will be exposed to subspecialty experience in women’s health and transgender medicine and learn to recognize common diagnoses in women’s health practice, observe common procedures, and compose treatment plans for these conditions.
130.16 CIEx - Prostate and Lung Cancer Elective - VAMC-SF (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): G. Hsu Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will have opportunities to recognize common diagnoses in prostate cancer and lung cancer practice, observe common procedures, and compose treatment plans for these common conditions.
130.17 CIEx - Urgent Care Medicine (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): P. Nadler Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Foundation 2 students Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. In this elective, students will have the opportunity to develop their skills in the diagnosis and treatment of common acute illness in adults.
130.18A CIEx - Longitudinal Inpatient Elective- KLIC-East Bay (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): T. Ziv Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students participating in the UCSF-Kaiser Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship program will complete an inpatient immersive elective in medicine or pediatrics, which will provide additional experience in these disciplines in the inpatient setting.
130.18B CIEx - Inpatient Medicine- KLIC-SF (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): B. Lin Prerequisite(s): KLIC San Francisco students
Restrictions: Medical students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. This is designed as an immersive experience in inpatient Medicine targeted towards students interested in experiencing an integrated health care delivery system, particularly those in longitudinall programs.
130.19 CIEx - Immersive Experience in Palliative Medicine (1.5 - 3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): K. Bischoff Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will spend one week on the inpatient palliative care service at Mission Bay, working with the Palliative Care attending physician and social worker. The second week will be in various outpatient and home based palliative care settings.
130.20 CIEx - Immersive Experience in Interventional Cardiology (1.5 - 3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): L. Zier Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical students in Foundations 2. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will be exposed to the sub-specialty field of interventional cardiology across all areas of care. Students will participate in clinic, attend conferences, and observe/assist in diagnostic and interventional procedures in the cardiac lab.
130.21 CIEx - Medical Student as Writer (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Course will not be offered in: Fall 2022
Instructor(s): L. Aronson Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Workshop, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Workshop
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Student will join physician-writers and physician-artists to see how a narrative lens and humanities perspective can enhance patient care and physician well-being. Students will submit a written reflection on a patient experience.
130.21A CIEx - Cohort Management - KLIC-East Bay (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): T. Ziv Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: KLIC students only. Activities: Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships.Students participating in the UCSF-Kaiser Longitudinal Integrated clerkship will have a longitudinal elective in patient cohort management and longitudinal follow up. By the end of the year, student cohorts should include roughly 50 patients.
130.21B CIEx - Cohort Management - KLIC-SF (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): B. Lin Prerequisite(s): none
Restrictions: KLIC students only. Activities: Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students participating in the UCSF-Kaiser Longitudinal Integrated clerkship will have a longitudinal elective in patient cohort management and follow up. By the end of the year, students should have roughly 50 patients in their cohort.
130.22 CIEx- Sports Medicine - Kaiser San Francisco (1.5 - 3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): B. Lin Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provides medical students an opportunity to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will explore primary care sports medicine as a career by participating in an outpatient clinical setting and learning the role primary care sports medicine plays in non-surgical management of sports-related injuries alongside other specialties.
130.23 CIEx - Interprofessional Addiction Care (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): M. O'Brien, T. Defries Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provides medical students an opportunity to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will care for patients with substance use disorders with ZSFG’s inpatient Addiction Care Team (ACT)! Interprofessional learners will join the consultation team to support hospital-wide care for patients who use drugs and alcohol.
130.24 CIEx - An Interdisciplinary Approach to Weight Management (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): D. Thiara Prerequisite(s): 3rd year student in good Academic standing
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core Clerkships. This CIEx serves to expose students to the various clinical components involved in an interdisciplinary approach to weight management and obesity medicine. Students will shadow and see patients with providers in medical weight management.
130.25 CIEx- HIV/Infectious Disease Inpatient Experience (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Course will not be offered in: Fall 2022
Instructor(s): J. Szumowski Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110 Core Clerkship
Restrictions: Medical Students in Foundations 2 Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core Clerkships. Students will participate fully on the inpatient HIV/Infectious Diseases Consult Service, interviewing, examining, presenting, and following up on patients with a variety of illnesses related to HIV and/or other infectious diseases.
130.26 CIEx- Inpatient Solid Tumor Oncology (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): S. Brondfield Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: 3rd or 4th student in good academic standing Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will be active team members on the inpatient solid oncology consult service, assisting in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with a variety of solid tumors. Students will work directly with oncology attendings, fellows, & nurse.
130.30 ClEx - SJV Leadership and Clinical Skills Building - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): L. Alving Prerequisite(s): MEDICINE 110
Restrictions: Must be an F2 San Joaquin Valley PRIME Student Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
The students will develop the skills they need to become competent physician leaders in the San Joaquin Valley. Half the time will be devoted to clinical skills with a mentor and half the time will be devoted to developing leadership skills for the SJV, exploring the social determinants of health and cultural and structural competency.
130.31 CIEx - Internal Medicine Rural - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): L. Alving Prerequisite(s): n/a
Restrictions: 3rd and 4th year medical students. Activities: Direct - Seminar, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Seminar
The Bridges Curriculum CIEx, which provides medical students in F2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. This is a 2 week rotation for medical students from the SJV PRIME program. The goal is to experience the unique aspects of outpatient adult medicine in a rural setting. Learners will receive regular feedback throughout their rotation.
130.32 CIEx - Career Exploration Elective - LIFE (1.5 - 2 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): L. Li Prerequisite(s): n/a
Restrictions: Foundation 2 medical students. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum CIEx, which provides medical students in F2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in the health care settings. Students will explore an area of career interest through a two-week experience in a specialty. The student will identify and work with a faculty mentor(s) and to design a clinical immersion experience that exposes to a specific specialty. Depending on career choice could include night and weekend responsibilities within policy.
130.68 CIEx - Infectious Disease - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): R. Libke, N. Nassar Prerequisite(s): None.
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. While on the Infectious Disease rotation, students will be exposed to the evaluation and treatment of patients with a variety of infectious disease pathologies in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.
130.71 CIEx - Pulmonary - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s): K. Bilello Prerequisite(s): None.
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will learn about evaluation and management of adult patients with respiratory diseases. Students will be exposed to physical examination of chest, interpretation of X-ray, arterial blood gases, pulmonary function studies.
130.77 CIEx - Endocrine/Diabetes - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): V. Babu Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. While on the Endocrine/Diabetes rotation, students will be exposed to the evaluation and treatment of patients with a variety of endocrine and diabetic pathologies in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.
130.79 CIEx - Lung Nodule - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): D. Upadhyay Prerequisite(s): None.
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. While on the Lung Nodule rotation, students will be exposed to the evaluation and treatment of patients with a variety of pulmonary nodule pathologies in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.
130.80 CIEx - Gastroenterology & Hepatology - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): M. Roytman Prerequisite(s): None.
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. While on the Gastroenterology & Hepatology rotation, students will be exposed to the evaluation and treatment of patients with a variety of GI & Hepatology pathologies in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.
130.81 CIEx - Hematology/Oncology - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): C. Stoehr, H. Abdulhaq Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. While on the Hematology/Oncology rotation, students will be exposed to the evaluation and treatment of patients with a variety of hematology/oncologic pathologies in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.
130.82 CIEx - Sleep Medicine - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): L. Keenan Prerequisite(s): None.
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. While on the Sleep Medicine rotation, students will be exposed to the evaluation and treatment of patients with a variety of Sleep pathologies in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.
130.83 CIEx - Rheumatology - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): C. Yuvienco Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. While on the Rheumatology rotation, students will be exposed to the evaluation and treatment of patients with a variety of rheumatologic pathologies in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.
130.84 CIEx - Nephrology - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): J. Duflot Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. While on the Nephrology rotation, students will be exposed to the evaluation and treatment of patients with a variety of renal pathologies in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.
140.01 Acting Internship in Medicine (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): L. Mills, C. Lai, G. Dhaliwal, B. Phan, S. Narayana Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110.
Restrictions: 4th year standing. Activities: Direct - Seminar, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Seminar
The sub-intern functions as an internal medicine intern under supervision of the senior resident, admitting roughly 2 new patients every 4-5-day call cycle while continuing to care for previously-admitted patients. Responsibilities for all patients include: initial history and physical exam; data gathering and interpretation; development of assessment and plan for each problem; reliable presentations, orally and in writing; and management as the primary provider throughout the hospital stay.
140.02A Off-Campus Clerkship (3 - 6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): C. Lai Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110 and approval of third- and fourth-year coordinator
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Clinical clerkships in off-campus hospitals approved by the department chairperson, third- and fourth-year coordinator and the dean.
140.02B Off-Campus Clerkship (3 - 6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): C. Lai Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110 and approval of third- and fourth-year coordinator
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Clinical clerkships in off-campus hospitals approved by the department chairperson, third- and fourth-year coordinator and the dean.
140.03 Clinical Geriatrics (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): M. Yukawa Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110 or FCM 110 strongly recommended.
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Project, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture, Student - Project
This elective explores geriatric medicine and how multiple disciplines work within a skilled nursing home. Student will work with physical, occupational, speech therapist, social workers and nurses at the San Francisco Center for Jewish Living (SFCJL). Student will learn about common geriatric conditions and caring for geriatric patients at the SFCJL. The majority of activities will be at the SFCJL but students will also visit On Lok either in person or virtual and the ZSFGH ACE unit.
140.04 Infectious Diseases (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): E. Bainbridge Prerequisite(s): Completion of Medicine 110 and Surgery 110
Restrictions: 4th year medical student Activities: Direct - Lab-Skills, Direct - Conference, Direct - Discussion, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Clinical elective with inpatient and outpatient infectious diseases at VAMC. Commonly encountered general ID problems of hospitalized patients, and comprehensive outpatient management of HIV disease are stressed. Introduction to clinical microbiology and hospital epidemiology are included.
140.05 Palliative Care Service Elective (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): J. Ho Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Must be 4th year Medical student. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
A hospital-based clinical experience on the Palliative Care Service focused on the care of patients with serious, chronic and terminal illness emphasizing symptom management, communication, ethical issues, spiritual care and psychosocial support of patients and their families. Students will have the opportunity to care for patients with serious and life-threatening illness. Students will serve as a part of the palliative care team made up of an attending physician, fellow, and clinical nurses.
140.06 Occupational & Environmental Medicine (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): R. Balogun, R. Kosnik, R. Harrison Prerequisite(s): None.
Restrictions: Third- or fourth-year students. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Students evaluate patients or populations exposed to chemicals through environment or injured in the workplace. Learning opportunities include multiple sites such as UCSF/Mt Zion Faculty Multidisciplinary Clinic, Kaiser SF Occupational Medical Clinic, UC Ergonomics Program and California Dept of Public Health. Educational experiences are tailored to student's background and interests.
140.07 Oncology (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): J. Cheng Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110
Restrictions: 4th year medical students Activities: Direct - Independent Study, Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Students will evaluate patients with malignant diseases under the supervision of oncology fellows and attending physicians at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Students will see oncology patients in the outpatient clinics and on the inpatient consultation service. Students will receive a broad exposure to a wide range of malignant diseases and their treatments.
140.08 Gastroenterology (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): S. Lewin Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110
Restrictions: 4th year medical students Activities: Direct - Conference, Direct - Discussion, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Students, along with a second-year fellow, two first-year fellows, a medical resident and attending, serve as a member of the gastroenterology clinical service. Participate in all conferences, journal review and teaching sessions, including specialty clinic (e.g., Liver, IBD clinics).
140.09 Hematology Consult (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): P. Cornett Prerequisite(s): all core clerkships
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Seminar, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture, Student - Seminar
On this 4-week inpatient elective, the student will work under the guidance of a hematology fellow, the hematology nurse practitioner, all supervised by the hematology attending. There are a broad range of cases seen including cytopenias, coagulopathies, bleeding disorders, sickle cell disease, and new evaluations for malignant hematologic diseases. Included in the rotation are several didactic classes, hematology case conferences, and microscope rounds with the hematopathology service.
140.09A Hematology Consult (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): P. Cornett Prerequisite(s): all core clerkships
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Seminar, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture, Student - Seminar
On this 2-week inpatient elective, the student will work under the guidance of a hematology fellow, the hematology nurse practitioner, all supervised by the hematology attending. There are a broad range of cases seen including cytopenias, coagulopathies, bleeding disorders, sickle cell disease, and new evaluations for malignant hematologic diseases. Included in the rotation are several didactic classes, hematology case conferences, and microscope rounds with the hematopathology service.
140.13 HIV/Infectious Diseases Joint Consultation (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): J. Szumowski Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Seminar, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture, Student - Seminar
This 4-week clerkship features an active, in-patient consultation service at Zuckerberg San Francisco General averaging two to four new consults per day, with a diverse case mix of HIV and other infectious diseases. The service is supervised on a daily basis by an ID fellow and HIV fellow (select months). Limited outpatient exposure may include ID clinic, HIV primary care, and HIV sub-specialty clinics. Students attend daily patient rounds, weekly ID and HIV conferences, and weekly micro rounds.
140.13A HIV/Infectious Diseases Joint Consultation (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): J. Szumowski Prerequisite(s): MEDICINE 110
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This 2-week clerkship features an active, in-patient consultation service at Zuckerberg San Francisco General averaging two to four new consults per day, with a diverse case mix of HIV and other infectious diseases. The service is supervised on a daily basis by an ID fellow and HIV fellow (select months). Students attend daily patient rounds, weekly ID and HIV conferences, weekly microbiology rounds, and may attend other research or patient-care conferences on the ZSFG campus.
140.14 Sexually Transmitted Diseases (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): O. Bacon Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing.
Restrictions: 4th year medical students Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Fourth-year medical students will be trained in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of sexually transmitted diseases in the clinical setting.
140.15 Subinternship in Medicine - Kaiser San Francisco (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): A. Lam Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of Medicine 110
Restrictions: 4th year standing Activities: Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
We welcome fourth year medical students as sub-interns on our inpatient medical ward teams, with a hospitalist attending, resident, and two interns. In addition to inpatient rounding service, students are also exposed to one week on the admitting rotation. Students actively participate in all aspects of patient care, similar to an intern, including writing notes, entering orders, calling consults, participating in a robust multi-disciplinary healthcare team, and updating family members.
140.19 Clinical Cardiology - VAMC-SF (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): J. Teerlink Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110.
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Independent Study, Direct - Conference, Direct - Discussion, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Students will learn how to evaluate and manage cardiology patients by working closely with cardiology attending physicians and fellows in an inpatient setting. Through participation in CCU and consult rounds, as well as conferences, students will become familiar with the presentation and management of CCU patients. In addition, the course will provide students with many opportunities to practice and develop the ability ti read and evaluate ECGs.
140.20 Infectious Disease (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): D. Sears Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110.
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture
Hospitalized patients with a wide range of infectious diseases are evaluated and presented by students under the direct supervision of the infectious disease fellow. Students present patients at attending rounds, infectious disease conferences, and review appropriate literature on the subject.
140.21 Gastroenterology/Liver - Highland Hospital - AHS (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): C. Chou Prerequisite(s): MEDICINE 110
Restrictions: Must be 4th year medical student Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This course will provide the student with a broad exposure to gastroenterology and hepatology in an underserved setting. As a functioning member of the team, the student will evaluate, present, and assist in the management of patients seen in the outpatient GI/Liver clinic, the endoscopy unit, and on the inpatient GI/Liver service.
140.21A Gastroenterology/Liver - Highland Hospital - AHS (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): C. Chou Prerequisite(s): MEDICINE 110
Restrictions: 4th year medical students Must have completed core Internal Medicine rotation. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This course will provide the student with a broad exposure to gastroenterology and hepatology in an underserved setting. As a functioning member of the team, the student will evaluate, present, and assist in the management of patients seen in the outpatient GI/Liver clinic, the endoscopy unit, and on the inpatient GI/Liver service.
140.22 Narrative Medicine and Podcasting with The Nocturnists (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): E. Silverman Prerequisite(s): all core clerkships
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Project, Direct - Discussion, Student - Project
Physicians, privy to an amazing variety of vulnerable experiences shared by humanity, have always been natural storytellers. Organized by The Nocturnists, this elective will introduce medical students to new media and communication, including podcasting, as well as live storytelling events. Students will learn the craft of podcasting, and will leave the elective with a strong mental framework for using podcasts and other narrative-centric media tools to communicate crucial stories in medicine.
140.23 Endocrine Metabolism - UCSF Parnassus (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): U. Masharani Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110.
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture
Students based at Moffitt Hospital, twelfth floor south, act as assistants to residents and to endocrine fellows for consultations as well as for hospitalized endocrine patients; attend endocrine and metabolic clinics and seminars, and teaching exercises of endocrinology and metabolism, including Medicine Grand Rounds.
140.24 Rheumatology (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): S. French, S. Goglin Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110.
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Independent Study, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture, Asynchronous - Independent Study
Students will learn to evaluate patients with joint pain as well as systemic illness in this 'hands-on' rotation. Students will evaluate patients with rheumatology attending physicians in the outpatient clinics at UCSF, SFGH and the VA. Students will see inpatients with fellows on the rheumatology consult service at Parnassus. Students will attend pre/post clinic conferences and two weekly didactic conferences.
140.25 Nephrology (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): R. Sam Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110 and fourth-year standing
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Conference, Direct - Discussion, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture
Students work up and follow up patients with a wide variety of renal and electrolyte disturbances, and see outpatients in a weekly Renal Clinic. Cases are discussed with attending physicians daily. Students also attend weekly Journal Club, Renal Grand Rounds, and Chief of Service Rounds.
140.26 ICU Subinternship - VAMC-SF (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): J. Frank Prerequisite(s): Medicine core clerkship
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Seminar, Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture, Student - Seminar
Excellent opportunity to learn and practice in a closed-format MICU/CCU/SICU supervised by intensivists from medicine and anesthesia critical care. The sub-intern functions as an intern admitting roughly 1 new patient every 1-2 days while continuing to care for up to 4 patients. Responsibilities include: history and physical; procedures, data gathering and interpretation; development of a thorough assessment and plan; reliable oral and written presentations.
140.27 Cardiology Rotation - General Cardiology and CCU at CPMC (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): P. Kennedy Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110.
Restrictions: Fourth year medical students only. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
During this rotation, the MS4 will participate in the management of patients with common cardiac conditions such as chest pain, valvular heart disease, heart failure, acute coronary syndromes, and arrhythmias. This will include critically ill patients admitted to the CCU with conditions such as: STEMI/ACD, unstable arrhythmias, decompensated CHF, heart transplant, pulmonary hypertension, cardiomyopathy, and heart block. No overnight call, minimum 4 days off in 4 week block. At Van Ness Campus.
140.29 Medical Oncology (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): S. Brondfield Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110.
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Seminar, Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture, Student - Seminar, Student - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Students evaluate patients on the wards in Moffitt-Long Hospital and participate in daily attending rounds, conferences and seminars. This course emphasizes evaluation and management of patients with solid organ cancers.
140.30 Endocrine Metabolism - ZSFG (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): S. Patzek Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture
The Endocrine-Metabolic Service provides an introduction to the diagnosis and treatment of endocrine disorders including diabetes in the inpatient and outpatient setting. Students will see patients on daily consultation rounds and in four weekly clinics. Didactics include preclinic conferences, endocrine grand rounds, a fellows lecture series and a thyroid pathology conference.
140.30A Endocrine Metabolism - ZSFG (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): S. Patzek Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110 and fourth-year standing
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture
The Endocrine-Metabolic Service provides an introduction to the diagnosis and treatment of endocrine disorders including diabetes in the inpatient and outpatient setting. Students will see patients on daily consultation rounds and in two weekly clinics. Didactics include preclinic conferences, endocrine grand rounds, a fellows lecture series and a thyroid pathology conference.
140.31 Medical ICU/CCU - Kaiser San Francisco (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): R. Chang Prerequisite(s): None.
Restrictions: 4th year medical students. Cannot accept students in July. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Excellent opportunity to learn and practice in a closed model mixed MICU/CCU. Multidisciplinary approach to providing care for critically ill patients. Highly supervised by board certified intensivists with an emphasis on student generated goals and objectives.
140.32 Introduction to Quality Improvement & Patient Safety (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): K. Kipps Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: 4th year medical students Activities: Direct - Seminar, Student - Seminar
Rotation will provide students with an immersion experience in quality improvement and patient safety (QI/PS) activities. Students will learn fundamental concepts in QI/PS through directed readings and didactics, apply their learnings in experiential fashion e.g conduct formal adverse event case review, and attend key UCSF medical center QI/PS committees. Students will also learn about organizational, unit/practice, and individual approaches to improving patient care using QI/PS tools.
140.34 Renal Consultation (3 - 6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): A. Malkina Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110.
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture, Student - Independent Study, Student - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Asynchronous - Independent Study
The student will join the renal team and participate under supervision in evaluation and treatment of patients with renal disease or disorders of fluid, acid-base, or electrolyte balance. Emphasis is placed on pathophysiology, history-taking, physical examination, and treatment.
140.35 Cardiology (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): M. Gray Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110.
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
See patients in consultation on wards and clinic; read electrocardiograms; improve auscultatory skills; review cases with cardiology Fellows, consult attendings; observe cardiac procedures - transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiograms, cardiac catheterizations; attend seminars, conferences. If time permits students welcome to sit in on inpatient rounds,see patients with inpatient team. Students expected to give 30-45 minute presentation at conclusion of elective topic of their choice.
140.39 Pulmonary Disease (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): P. Wolters Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Students participate fully on the inpatient Pulmonary Consult Service, interviewing, examining, presenting, and doing follow-up of their own patients. Attend weekly conferences, receive some experience with procedures (e.g., bronchoscopy), learn pulmonary function interpretation, and do directed reading relevant to their patients.
140.41 Gastroenterology - ZSFG (3 - 6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): C. Feuille Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110 and fourth-year standings.
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Students evaluate and present GI consults on patients admitted to the medical and surgical wards. Observe GI techniques, including sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, endoscopy, liver biopsy. Attend weekly GI and liver clinics, and conferences held in conjunction with Surgery, Pathology and Radiology.
140.43 Lifestyle Medicine in Prevention and Treatment of Disease (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): D. Ornish Prerequisite(s): None.
Restrictions: 3rd and 4th year medical students. Activities: Direct - Independent Study, Direct - Discussion, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
The Lifestyle Medicine Program uses a comprehensive approach to address the underlying causes of disease rather than merely treating its symptoms. This comprehensive program provides a spectrum of choices in nutrition, managing stress, exercise and social support, taking into consideration individual needs and preferences. This course is unique in that it combines both didactic and experiential learning.
140.45 Endocrine Metabolism - VAMC-SF (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): A. Schafer Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110 and consent of instructor.
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Seminar, Direct - Conference, Direct - Discussion, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture, Student - Seminar
An introduction to the diagnosis and treatment of endocrine-metabolism diseases. The areas covered include those endocrinopathies involving the major endocrine glands, as well as diabetes mellitus and hyperlipemias. Patients will be examined and treated in both the inpatient and outpatient services. Attendance at 3 clinics per week and daily work rounds are required activities as well as post clinic conferences on Fridays.
140.46 Pulmonary Medicine (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): J. Metcalfe Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year medical student in good standing.
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Discussion, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Pulmonary disease, including clinical manifestations, basic pathophysiology, use and limitations of diagnostic studies and treatment. Experience will be gained by seeing patients on wards and through a series of ongoing conferences, ward rounds and review sessions under close faculty supervision.
140.48 Pulmonary Medicine - St. Mary's (3 - 6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): D. Raybin Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing.
Restrictions: Limited to 1 student per month; must have pulmonary resident on service. Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Discussion, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture, Student - Discussion
The purpose of this clerkship is to introduce senior medical students to the three main aspects of pulmonary medicine: the chest service, intensive care and the pulmonary function lab.
140.49 Introduction to Poverty Medicine - UCSF Parnassus (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): E. Shak Prerequisite(s): Third- and fourth-year medical students only.
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Discussion, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture, Student - Project
This course is a two week elective during which students will explore the social, environmental and medical aspects of the care of impoverished populations. The class will include work in community clinics, visits to medical and non-medical service providers and lectures by local experts.
140.50 Clinical Care and Teaching at UCSF's Student Homeless Clinic (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): D. Wlodarczyk Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Fourth year students in the School of Medicine Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Many medical students have an interest in working with vulnerable populations and have volunteered at the UCSF Student Homeless Clinic during their pre-clinical years. This elective would allow fourth year medical students to return to clinic with advanced skills; this would allow them to further refine their clinical skills, learn about issues facing homeless individuals, and provide supervision to the pre-clinical students.
140.55 Medicine Subinternship - CPMC (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): P. Kennedy Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110, 4th year standing
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Independent Study, Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
During the 4 week Sub-Internship, students will assume the role of the intern. The rotation is on a 5 day call cycle. You will work closely with your supervising senior resident in the admission, work-up and day to day management of patients admitted to the medicine service. You will be exposed to patients with diverse socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, and with wide ranging acute and chronic medical diagnoses. You will be expected to manage 4-6 patients at a time.
140.60 Medicine Subinternship - Highland Hospital - AHS (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): A. Sridhar Prerequisite(s): All 3rd year core clerkships
Restrictions: 4th year medical students only Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
An exciting, stimulating 4 weeks as a subintern at a busy County hospital. You may see malaria, botulism,septic shock, and other fascinating and serious conditions. Attending staff make daily teaching/management rounds and you will have the opportunity to manage cases under their direction as a subintern, admitting patients from the Emergency Department, writing orders and gaining experience with procedures.
140.66 Internal Medicine - Fresno (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): M. Singh Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Students assigned to teams with first- and second-year residents, rounds with attending faculty, participation in daily conferences. Emphasis on pathophysiology of disease processes, management of acute medical problems. Refine skills in history-taking, physical examination, write-ups, presentations, techniques of diagnostic procedures. Students may be placed on inpatient at either CRMC or VA-Fresno.
140.67A CIEx - Neurointensivist-Neurohospitalist Immersion - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): M. Singh Prerequisite(s): Completion of Medicine 110 core clerkship
Restrictions: n/a Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Students will be paired with a neurointensivist and a neurohospitalist in this apprenticeship model to provide care for patients with acute neurological and neurosurgical diseases in Californias Central Valley. This CIEx elective would provide 3rd-year medical students the opportunity to gain firsthand experience in the day-to-day care of patients with diseases, such as subdural hematomas, subarachnoid hemorrhages, brain tumors, strokes, spinal stenosis, spinal tumors, etc.
140.68 Infectious Diseases - Fresno (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): G. Sivasubramanian, N. Nassar Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
In this course students will participate in the management of common and unusual infectious diseases in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Management may include the use of antimicrobials in the presence of impaired renal or hepatic function, treatment of infection in the immunologically compromised host, patient evaluation, treatment follow-up, and participating in ward rounds and conferences. Microbiology laboratory can be arranged.
140.68A Infectious Diseases - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): G. Sivasubramanian Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This 2 week medicine elective is for students interested in additional exposure to the world of infectious disease. Students will participate in the management of common and unusual infectious diseases. The elective will take place both in the inpatient and the outpatient settings.
140.69 Cardiology Consultation - Fresno (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): T. Daniele Prerequisite(s): None.
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Participation with housestaff in patient care on CCU, ICU, medical wards, outpatient clinics. Introduction to invasive and non-invasive diagnostic procedures, techniques of management in care of hospitalized and ambulatory patients. Attend ECG interpretations, CCU rounds, consults, and teaching conferences.
140.70 Hospital Medicine Elective - ZSFG (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): A. Karwa, G. Ortiz Prerequisite(s): Must be a 4th year medical student Received a passing grade on the required 4th year medicine subinternship
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
The fourth year elective in hospital medicine is a two week clerkship experience on the Faculty Inpatient Service at San Francisco General Hospital, an attending staffed hospitalist service. Students will work under the direct supervision of faculty hospitalists to provide care for underserved adult medicine inpatients at SFGH, improving their diagnostic and therapeutic skills and engaging in multidisciplinary care.
140.71 Pulmonary Disease - Fresno (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): K. Bilello, M. Peterson Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110 or consent of instructor
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Evaluation and management of adult patients with respiratory diseases, supervised by housestaff and faculty, Pulmonary Medicine section. Emphasis on physical examination of chest, interpretation of X-ray, arterial blood gases, pulmonary function studies. Gain familiarity with respirators and other aspects of respiratory care.
140.71A Pulmonary Medicine - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): K. Bilello, V. Jain Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: 3rd or 4th year students Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This 2 week medicine elective is for students interested in additional exposure to the world of pulmonary medicine. The elective will take place in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Students will participate in the evaluation and management of adult patients with respiratory diseases, under the supervision of faculty, fellows and residents.
140.72 Comprehensive Palliative Care (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): E. Widera Prerequisite(s): MEDICINE 110 SURGERY 110 PEDIATRICS 110 OB GYN R S 110 PSYCHIATRY 110 Students must have successfully completed all 3rd year core clerkships
Restrictions: Students must have successfully completed all 3rd year core clerkships Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Four week comprehensive elective in palliative care will include experiences in multiple venues: Hospital consultations, hospice (home and inpatient), outpatient symptoms management clinic. Students will learn to care for patients with life-threatening illness and gain experience with symptom management, end-of-life discussions, complex spiritual, social, psychosocial aspects of end of life care, multiple venues of care and systems issues, and interdisciplinary approach to whole-patient care.
140.73 Advanced Cardiology - Fresno (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): T. Daniele, B. Woodbury Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110, 4th Year Standing.
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Independent Study, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture
This 4-week module will teach and provide a basis for systemic interpretation of the EKG with the under served populations in the Central Valley. It will address underlying normal cardiac structure/function and cardiac abnormalities as reflected in the surface EKG. There will be 1 hour daily didactic sessions with student led ECG analysis session and daily clinic rotations on the ancillary cardiology services. Special emphasis on issues in the care of patients with cardiac issues.
140.73A Advanced Cardiology - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): T. Daniele, B. Woodbury Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110, 4th year standing
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Independent Study, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture
This 2-week module will teach and provide a basis for systemic interpretation of the EKG with the underserved populations in the Central Valley. It will address underlying normal cardiac structure/function and cardiac abnormalities as reflected in the surface EKG. There will be 1 hour daily didactic sessions with student led ECG analysis session and daily clinic rotations on the ancillary cardiology services. Special emphasis on issues in the care of patients with cardiac issues.
140.77 Endocrinology/Diabetes - Fresno (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): V. Babu Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Independent Study, Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture
Students gain extensive experience in care of patients with diabetes and other endocrine disease through active participation in special diabetes inpatient units, ward consultations, diabetes and endocrine clinics, and patient educational programs located at the CRMC in Fresno and in the community.
140.77A Endocrinology/Diabetes - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): V. Babu Prerequisite(s): none
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Students gain experience in the care of patients with diabetes and other endocrine diseases through active participation in inpatient ward consultations, diabetes and endocrine clinics, and unique patient educational programs.
140.78 Critical Care Medicine - Fresno (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): K. Bilello, T. Evans Prerequisite(s): 4th year standing
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Students participate in the management and evaluation of critically ill patients in the Medical Intensive Care Unit. This includes the interpretation of laboratory results, blood gases and chest X-rays and the use of mechanical ventilation and hemodynamic monitoring. Supervision is by full-time faculty with senior Medicine residents.
140.80 Gastroenterology & Hepatology - Fresno (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): M. Roytman Prerequisite(s): n/a
Restrictions: n/a Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Independent Study, Direct - Conference, Direct - Discussion, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture, Student - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Students will become part of the GI-Liver team. In addition to basic patient evaluation, they will participate in the broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures. Participation in an active ambulatory clinic adds to the variety of patients seen.
140.80A Gastroenterology & Hepatology - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): M. Roytman Prerequisite(s): n/a
Restrictions: n/a Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Students will become part of the GI-Liver team. In addition to basic patient evaluation, they will participate in the broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures. Participation in an active ambulatory clinic adds to the variety of patients seen.
140.81 Hematology/Oncology - Fresno (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): U. Chaudhary, H. Abdulhaq Prerequisite(s): 4th Year Standing
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Independent Study, Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture
The hematology-oncology (hem-onc) rotation is designed to provide an opportunity for advanced 4th-year medical students (MS4) to have a time for concentrated study of diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs, benign and malignant tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. While on the rotation, acquisition of knowledge about hem-onc will be fostered by being involved in the evaluation and treatment of patients in both the inpatient and outpatient.
140.81A Hematology/Oncology - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): U. Chaudhary, H. Abdulhaq Prerequisite(s): 3rd Year Medicine Standing or 4th Year Medicine Standing
Restrictions: n/a Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This hematology-oncology rotation is designed to provide an opportunity for medical students to have a time for concentrated study of diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs, benign and malignant tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. This is a 2-week rotation that takes place at CRMC in Fresno. CRMC is one of the main teaching hospitals for UCSF Fresno and is a level 1 trauma center serving Californias Central Valley.
140.82A Sleep Medicine - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): L. Keenan Prerequisite(s): n/a
Restrictions: 3rd- and 4th-year MD students Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Sleep medicine is a growing field that impacts many patients in a general medicine clinic. The goal of this rotation is to expand student knowledge and skills in Sleep Medicine.
140.83 Rheumatology - Fresno (3 - 6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): C. Yuvienco Prerequisite(s): 4th Year Standing
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
The rheumatology rotation is designed to provide an opportunity for 4th-year medical students to have a time for concentrated study of disorders of the musculoskeletal system. While on the rotation, acquisition of knowledge about rheumatologic diseases will be fostered by being involved in the evaluation and treatment of patients with a variety of rheumatologic pathologies in both the inpatient and outpatient areas.
140.83A Rheumatology - Fresno (2.5 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): C. Yuvienco Prerequisite(s): MSIII or MS IV standing.
Restrictions: n/a Activities: Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
The rheumatology rotation is designed for medical students MS3 and MS4 for the study of disorders of the musculoskeletal system, including autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. Acquisition of knowledge about rheumatologic diseases by being involved in the evaluation and treatment of patients with a variety of connective tissue diseases in both the inpatient and outpatient areas. This elective is a 2-week rotation that takes place at Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC)/VA in Fresno.
140.84 Nephrology - Fresno (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): J. Duflot Prerequisite(s): n/a
Restrictions: 4th year MD students. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This clinical nephrology rotation is a four-week rotation that takes place at Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC) in Fresno. Students on the nephrology rotation will engage in both inpatient and outpatient care. Students will become acquainted with the tools necessary to provide consultative services. This includes a complete assessment of the patient and providing answers to questions asked in the consultation.
140.84A Nephrology Elective - Fresno (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): J. Duflot Prerequisite(s): n/a
Restrictions: 3rd year and 4th year MD students. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
This clinical nephrology rotation is a two-week rotation that takes place at Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC) in Fresno. CRMC is one of the main teaching hospitals for the UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program. It is a tertiary referral hospital with a level 1 trauma center serving Californias Central Valley.
140.86 Pulmonary Medicine - Highland Hospital - AHS (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): M. Bhargava Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Students must be of 4th year standing Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Participate in clinical, diagnostic activities of Consult Service. Rounds occur at bedside to verify, demonstrate historical and clinical findings, patients hospital course, provide updates on diagnostic testing and therapeutic interventions. Attend conferences, view procedures, learn pulmonary function interpretation, read assigned texts, papers relevant to patients. Rotation encourages students to become adept in care of respiratory diseases of busy inner city hospital caring for underserved.
140.91 ECG Interpretation (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): C. Pellegrini, T. Dewland Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing in School of Medicine.
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Workshop, Student - Lecture, Student - Independent Study
The course consists of interactive small group workshops focused on cardiac electrophysiology, derivation of ECG wave forms, and diagnoses of common electrocardiographic abnormalities.
140.93 Integrative Health & Medicine Clinical Elective (2.5 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): A. Dhruva Prerequisite(s): None.
Restrictions: This course is designed for MS4s but we will consider 3rd year learners by request. Activities: Direct - Workshop, Direct - Project, Direct - Independent Study, Direct - Conference, Direct - Discussion, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Workshop, Student - Project, Student - Independent Study, Student - Discussion, Student - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Asynchronous - Independent Study
This clinically oriented elective will introduce students to the practice of integrative medicine. Learners will develop integrative medicine skills for both their future clinical practice and self-care. Week 1: Learners will start in the classroom engaging with flipped classroom content, discussions, and skills-based experiential activities. Week 2: Learners will take the knowledge and skills that they have developed and apply them in a mentored setting in the Osher Center Clinic.
140.95 Intensive Care Unit (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): T. Elliott Prerequisite(s): Fourth Year Standing
Restrictions: 1 student per block Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture, Student - Independent Study
The ICU service consults on, or cares for all of the medical patients in the ICU. There is a lecture series and a syllabus. There is formal instruction in ventilator management and in invasive procedures. this rotation allows students to become comfortable in caring for critically ill patients.
140.97 Medical Intensive Care Unit (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): P. Kennedy Prerequisite(s): Medicine 110.
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Conference, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture, Student - Independent Study
Students learn critical care medicine im a busy ICU with a diverse patient population and broad ranging case mix.
141.02 Cardiology Interprofessional Elective (2.5 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): C. Zhou Prerequisite(s): None required
Restrictions: MS4 students Activities: Direct - Project, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
The UCSF Division of Cardiology services 7 outpatient clinics in the Bay Area and they provide care to over 12,000 patients each year. Primary sites include: UCSF Cardiovascular Care and Prevention Center (Mission Bay) and UCSF Cardiac Rehabilitation and Wellness Center (Parnassus). Medical students (MS3 and MS4 preferred) will be paired with advanced practice pharmacy students to provide direct patient care under the supervision of licensed professionals.
141.17 Interprofessional Addiction Care (6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): A. Logan, M. O'Brien, T. Defries Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: 4th Year student in good academic standing Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
During this 4 week elective, MS4s will build confidence and skill caring for patients with substance use disorders by joining ZSFG’s inpatient Addiction Care Team (ACT)! Interprofessional learners will join the consultation team of attending physician, fellow, substance use navigator and licensed vocational nurses to support hospital-wide care for patients who use drugs and alcohol. Students will work collaboratively with interprofessional learners through various activities.
150.01 Research in Medicine (3 - 24 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): C. Lai Prerequisite(s): Consent of faculty member in charge of students research project and approval of third- and fourth-year coordinator.
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lab-Science, Direct - Project, Direct - Field Work
Students continue previously initiated research projects under the guidance of faculty members.
160.04 Medical Science & Clinical Problems (0 - 1 units) Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s): C. Hoerth Prerequisite(s): Must be an MD/PhD trainee in the MSTP at UCSF.
Restrictions: Must be an MD/PhD trainee in the MSTP at UCSF. Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
Clinical contact is arranged with mentor for experience in ward rounds, clinic work, etc. in clinical departments with approved faculty. Student will choose mentor from list of available faculty. MSTP students are required to complete 6 units before completion of the PhD MEDICINE
170.01A Special Issues in Health Care (1 units) Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s): C. Lai Prerequisite(s): none
Restrictions: No restrictions. All UCSF students enrolled in the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy & Dentistry may enroll in this course and receive credit. Activities: Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture
Explore in systematic (lecture/readings/small group discussion) format new issues in health care or special content areas related to medicine. Topics are developed and prepared according to faculty-student interests.
170.01B Special Issues in Health Care (1 units) Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s): C. Lai Prerequisite(s): none
Restrictions: Students from the other professional schools at UCSF are welcome to take this course Activities: Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture
Explore in systematic (lecture/readings/small group discussion) format new issues in health care or special content areas related to medicine. Topics are developed and prepared according to faculty-student interests.
170.01C Special Issues in Health Care (1 units) Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s): C. Lai Prerequisite(s): none
Restrictions: Students from other UCSF professional schools are welcome to take this course. Activities: Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture
Explore in system (lecture/readings/small group discussion) format new issues in health care or special content areas related to medicinel Topics are developed and prepared according to faculty-student interests.
170.01D Special Issues in Health Care (1 units) Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s): C. Lai Prerequisite(s): none
Restrictions: Students from the other professional schools at UCSF are welcome to take this course Activities: Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture
Explore in systematic (lecture/reading/small group discussion) format new issues in health care or special content areas related to medicine. Topics are developed and prepared according to faculty-student interests..
170.01E Special Issues in Health Care (1 units) Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s): C. Lai Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: No restrictions. Students from the other professional schools at UCSF are welcome to take this course. Activities: Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture
Explore in systematic (lecture/reading/small group discussion) format new issues in health care or special content areas related to medicine. Topics are developed and prepared according to faculty-student interests.
170.01F Special Issues in Health Care (1 units) Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s): C. Lai Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: No restrictions. Students from the other professional schools at UCSf are welcome to take this course. Activities: Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture
Explore in systematic (lecture/reading/small group discussion) format new issues in health care or special content areas related to medicine. Topics are developed and prepared according to faculty-student interests.
170.07 Communicating with the Latino Patient (1 units) Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s): L. Seijo Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture
A practical course designed to develop basic skills in overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers to health care for Spanish-speaking persons.
170.09 Current Topics in Medical Science (2 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): A. Kao Prerequisite(s): none
Restrictions: none Activities: Direct - Discussion
Focus on research interests of UCSF faculty. Provides broad introduction to campus research, practice in reading and analyzing research publications. Speaker's talk includes discussion of personal background, present research, background description on research area, and discussion of future research plans.
170.10 Basic Science Journal Club (1 units) Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s): A. Kao Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Independent Study, Student - Lecture
The basic science journal club is a student led course designed to investigate cutting edge research in the basic sciences and its implications for translational and clinical care. Open to health professional students and required of 1st year MSTP students, each participant chooses, researches, and presents a recent journal article of their choosing and facilitates a discussion with the entire class at least once throughout the year.
170.34A Asian American Pacific Islander Health Disparities (1 units) Fall
Instructor(s): C. Lai Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture
The primary goal of this elective is to introduce students to the health issues prevalent in the Asian American Pacific Islander communities (API). During the course, students will learn to define the health disparities faced by the API community and acquire a background in topics such as hepatitis B, cardiovascular risks, and pharmacogenomics to provide patient education and improve community outreach.
170.36 MSTP Into the Clinic! (3 units) Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s): C. Hoerth Prerequisite(s): MSTP
Restrictions: MSTP students in the final year of their graduate studies planning to return to medical school this spring. Activities: Direct - Seminar, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Seminar
This course is an intensive re-introduction to clinical medicine for MSTP students completing graduate studies and planning to return to medical school this spring. The course includes 5 half-days of didactics where students review and practice history taking, physical exam skills, oral presentations, and analysis of basic clinical data (labs, EKGs etc.) through clinical cases. Skills are reinforced through 3-5 afternoons of clinical immersion.
170.37 National Transgender Health Summit (1 units) Spring
Instructor(s): J. Sevelius Prerequisite(s): none
Restrictions: None. Activities: Direct - Conference
The National Transgender Health Summit is a two day conference for medical providers and students to increase awareness of transgender (trans) issues in health care. The Summit aims to increase provider skills in the provision of optimal health care for trans patients and to provide a professional forum for the sharing of best practices, innovative techniques, and cutting edge research among providers who wish to gain expertise in providing competent care for trans patients.
170.38 Health Professions Students as Writer (1 units) Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s): L. Aronson Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: Medical students only Activities: Direct - Workshop
To inspire & develop physician-writers of all types by exploring ways writing can inform, shape, & become part of a medical career. Class has three parts 1) UCSF physician-writers describe their careers and ways in which writing contributed to their success and satisfaction 2) discussion of one type of medical writing based on assigned reading 3) brief writing exercise.
170.40 UCSF Student Flu Crew for Seasonal Flu Vaccination (0.5 - 1.5 units) Fall, Winter
Instructor(s): J. Rinker, R. Harrison Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Lecture
Students plan, coordinate, administer flu vaccines in the SF Bay Area. These free on-site events will be held at various locations in coordination with local social services groups for underserved communities and employers. Students will be responsible for: Obtaining vaccines and supplies including funding. Identifying community partners for sites to administer vaccine. Scheduling students, faculty for each vaccination event. Consenting, administering and documenting each vaccination given.
170.41 Word on the Wards: Inpatient Health Education at SFGH (1 units) Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s): K. Han Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: 1st and 2nd year students from schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing and PT are all welcome to take this course. Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Field Work, Student - Lecture
Word on the Wards is an interprofessional program, in collaboration with the SFGH Hospitalist Division, in which UCSF students act as health coaches for patients on the SFGH wards. This elective consists of an 8-hour training session and two clinical shifts. During the training session, students will learn about working with underserved populations, their role as a health coach, health topic content, and health coaching techniques. They will apply these skills during their clinical shifts.
170.42 Collaborative Clinical Case Investigation (1 units) Fall, Spring
Instructor(s): C. Lai Prerequisite(s): N/A
Restrictions: N/A Activities: Direct - Seminar, Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Student - Seminar
Master clinicians develop their diagnostic acumen by learning through case discussions. Cases allow students to learn history taking, differential diagnosis, disease management, and other valuable skills to prepare for clinical years. Each week in this elective, a senior medical student or resident will present a real case. The class will walk through a fun, challenging, and interactive discussion on how to think about the case and reason out the correct diagnosis and appropriate management.
170.43 HealthLink (1 units) Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s): M. Tapia Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Workshop, Student - Lecture
The focus of this elective is promoting education about health sciences in under-represented communities via service learning. UCSF students will learn how to mentor, design curriculum, and teach by interacting with under-represented high school sophomores in an 8-session program. This is an interdisciplinary elective involving students from schools of medicine, nursing, dental, pharmacy and physical therapy.
170.44 Current Issues in Medical Informatics (1 units) Fall
Instructor(s): D. Avrin, M. Blum, R. Cucina, A. Neinstein Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Seminar, Student - Seminar
Seminar for MSI & MSII, Nursing, Pharmacy, & Dental students, interested in current issues in medical informatics related to the successful deployment and implementation of EMR (Electronic Medical Record). Seminar format 1 hour per week, with each week devoted to a specific topic from a list. 30 min will be formal lecture to introduce the topic, followed by 30 min discussion. Syllabus will identify required reading prior to each week's session. No prior computer science expertise required.
170.45 Homeless Clinic Experience (1 units) Winter, Spring
Instructor(s): C. Lai, M. Vener Prerequisite(s): Only SOM Students must complete Medicine 170.10A speaker series
Restrictions: N/A Activities: Clinical Experience/Patient Contact, Field Work
The Homeless Clinic Experience will give students an opportunity to volunteer at a Homeless Clinic for elective credit. Participants must have completed a Homeless Clinic orientation session or plan to complete an orientation session before volunteering.This elective is open to medical and nursing students. Participants must complete 3 shifts at a Clinic per quarter to obtain elective credit. The shelter will be chosen by the student coordinators of this course.
170.46 Exploring Med-Peds (1 units) Fall, Spring
Instructor(s): B. Monash Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Seminar, Student - Seminar
In the form of one-hour, interactive lectures hosted by dual-trained UCSF resident and faculty members, this course will introduce and expose medical students to careers within the combined medicine-pediatrics field, including career pathways and training venues, med-peds opportunities, the fields of pediatrics and adult internal medicine, and the similarities and dissimilarities that exist between them.
170.48 A Student-Curated Health Humanities Event Series (1 units) Fall
Instructor(s): E. Silverman, M. O'Brien Prerequisite(s): N/A
Restrictions: N/A Activities: Direct - Seminar, Student - Seminar
Join forces with interdisciplinary health professions students! In small teams, you will choose a health-related topic with social, emotional, or ethical dimensions (e.g. addiction, organ transplantation) around which to plan a public event that incorporates storytelling, medical humanities, and the arts with the goal of building understanding, promoting dialogue, and making the invisible visible. This course will enroll 12-16 students for 7 evening sessions at a faculty member's home.
170.49 Native Health Elective (1 units) Fall
Instructor(s): T. Bongiovanni Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture
This elective offers an introduction to and overview of the health of Native American/Alaska Native communities. The course will examine both historical and political influences on Native health, as well as provide cultural context and examples of resilience within Indigenous communities. We start the course with a brief history of Native policies, including the development of the Indian Health Service. We will then discuss various disparities affecting Native communities (e.g. access to care).
170.50 Cardiology Interest Group: Review and Explore (1 units) Fall
Instructor(s): B. Phan Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture
The Cardiology Interest Group (CIG) will provide students an opportunity to explore and learn about the field of Cardiology. CIG provides educational teaching sessions led by faculty and students, in an effort to bolster long-term retention and prepare for clinical clerkships, mentorship and advising from faculty in the UCSF Division of Cardiology, and career exploration with the help of Faculty guest speakers in the Division of Cardiology.
170.51 A Community Engagement Pop-up Addressing Health Disparities (1 units) Winter
Instructor(s): M. John Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Clinical Experience/Patient Contact
The course will provide students the opportunity to work directly in a community clinic that predominantly serves Black/African American residents in the Filmore/Western Addition, outer Mission, and Bayview district. Students will participate in the pop-up clinics and provide health education and counseling, health screenings, and other health services to residents while working with other health professionals in this work.
170.52 Universal Healthcare and how we get there (1 units) Spring
Instructor(s): J. Kahn Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture
Explores in systematic (lecture/readings/discussion) format issues in U.S. health care policy as it relates to the financing, delivery, uneven and racialized outcomes, evidence-based research, and student-directed system change. The course offers an opportunity for students to learn the history of the U.S. health care system and how to achieve Medicare for All. Topics are prepared according to student interests.
170.53 Innovating Healthcare: From Concept to Reality (1 units) Spring
Instructor(s): L. Klein Prerequisite(s): None
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Project, Direct - Field Work, Direct - Discussion, Student - Lecture, Student - Project
Innovating Healthcare Technology: From Concept to Reality guides students through the journey of creating new health technologies. Learn how needs are identified, solutions are devised and de-risked, and factors such as Intellectual Property protection, clinical trial design, FDA oversight, reimbursement, and how startup fundraising and operations impact healthcare innovation. Students will further explore how healthcare systems, policies, and norms themselves might be reimagined and redesigned.
180 Occupational Toxicology (2 units) Winter
Instructor(s): T. Durrani, D. Shusterman Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Restrictions: Consent of instructor. Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Project, Student - Lecture, Student - Project, Student - Independent Study
Course provides understanding of basic principles of toxicology as related to work environment and workers' health.
198 Supervised Study (1 - 6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): C. Lai Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor preceptor and approval of third- and fourth-year coordinator.
Restrictions: None Activities: Independent Study, Project
Library research and directed reading under supervision of a member of the faculty with the approval of the chairperson of the department.
199 Laboratory Project in Medicine (1 - 6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s): Staff Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor preceptor and approval of third- and fourth-year course director.
Restrictions: None Activities: Direct - Lab-Science
Students will select and conduct a research project under the guidance of a member of the Department of Medicine Faculty.
205 Research Seminar in Health Professions Education (1 - 6 units) Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Course will not be offered in: Spring 2022
Instructor(s): C. Boscardin, P. O'Sullivan Prerequisite(s): Health Professions Education Pathway or Teaching Scholars Program taken either before or concurrent with enrollment. Must be enrolled at UCB.UCB students taking this course for credit need to fill out an Intercampus Exchange application. http://registrar.ucsf.edu/registration/intercampus-exchange
Restrictions: This course is only opened to any level of UCSF learner enrolled at UCB. Students must have instructor's approval to ensure that the prerequisites have been met. Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Seminar, Direct - Project, Student - Lecture, Student - Seminar, Student - Project
Seminar to analyze, develop educational research in health professions. Students examine literature and ascertain status of health professions education relative to work in related disciplines. Students present developing research studies and critique work of others not only from course but from UCSF community. Students learn about dissemination and participation in relevant professional organizations. UCB students taking course for credit need to complete an Intercampus Exchange application.