Family and Community Medicine (FAM CM MED)

Instructor(s): Erica Brode, Mary Turocy

A required core clerkship in Family Medicine where students learn to provide primary care in an outpatient setting. Under supervision and with instruction, students perform ambulatory visits for chronic care, acute care and preventive care.

Instructor(s): Erica Brode

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. San Francisco Free Clinic provides free primary care and urgent care for uninsured individuals in San Francisco. Students will work with family physicians and general internists to provide ambulatory care to primarily adult patients.

Instructor(s): Ariel Wagner, Melissa Nothnagle

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 course, students will engage in family practice with a specific emphasis on maternity care.

Instructor(s): Lealah Pollock

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 gain experience in the family medicine approach to HIV care and prevention among women. Students will work in the Women's HIV Program at Parnassus, the Family HIV Clinic at ZSFG, and the National Clinical Consultation Call Center.

Instructor(s): Dumindra Gurusinghe

This is a Bridges Curriculum CIEx, which provides medical students in Foundation 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will spend 2 weeks on the inpatient palliative care service at CRMC working with our multidisciplinary team, which includes a supervising physician, a Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellow, nurse, social worker, and Chaplain. Half day in our outpatient CCI, Clovis.

Instructor(s): Erica Brode

Students will work with a family medicine physician in various sites which could include an urban or rural private practice, community based clinic, or the Indian Health Service. Experiences will focus on students area of interest such as community oriented primary care, complementary & alternative medicine, or maternal and child health.

Instructor(s): Erica Brode

Students will work with a family medicine physician in various sites which could include an urban or rural private practice, community based clinic, or the Indian Health Service. Experiences will focus on students area of interest such as community oriented primary care, complementary & alternative medicine or maternal and child health.

Instructor(s): Mark Renneker, Eric Jamison

A 2 week block elective for medical students to gain family medicine-based advocacy experience and clinical research skills. This curriculum will better equip them to help patients and families dealing with complex and life-threatening conditions who are seeking optimum care, or care that falls outside what is provided by standard medical practices.

Instructor(s): Clarissa Kripke

UCSF Students will be mentored by a clinician who provides care to medically fragile patients with developmental disabilities in the community. Services will be delivered in a number of settings, including group homes, clinics, and community sites. Students will partner with a community agency and self advocates to complete a health promotion or resource development project. Participants will develop skills in working with teams. Activities and placements will be designed based on interests.

Instructor(s): Monica Hahn, Heather Hervey-Jumper

Students taking this course will review the core principles and practices of underserved care, acquire new leadership skills, and work together on community-based projects. As the culminating curriculum for PRIME-US, this course provides students with an opportunity to reconnect with their peers, renew their commitment to underserved care, and build a foundation for future leadership roles.

Instructor(s): Erica Brode

In this advanced elective in Family Medicine, students function as interns and assume a high level of responsibility in providing primary, preventive and acute care in an outpatient setting.

Instructor(s): Mukund Premkumar

In this advanced elective in Family Medicine, students function as interns and assume a high level of responsibility in providing primary, preventive and acute care in an outpatient setting.

Instructor(s): Erica Brode

In this advanced elective in Family Medicine, students assume a high level of responsibility in providing primary, preventive, and acute care in an outpatient setting at San Francisco Free Clinic.

Instructor(s): Margaret Stafford

The Family Medicine Inpatient Service at SFGH employs a family medicine approach to the care of hospitalized adult patients with diverse medical problems. Students function as members of the multidisciplinary inpatient team at a junior intern level. Students review their patients with the attending daily. Teaching rounds are held daily and include weekly behavioral science and radiology rounds in addition to interactive small group teaching on core inpatient medicine topics.

Instructor(s): Shelley Adler

This elective takes an integrative and interprofessional approach to relationship-centered EOL care, cross-cultural understandings of death, and the spiritual dimension of dying. Highlights include didactic and experiential core seminars, presentations by EOL care providers, hospice visits, and the exploration of personal understandings and transformational opportunities of EOL care through the discussion of literature, writing, and reflection. (ENROLLMENT MINIMUM: 15 STUDENTS)

Instructor(s): Juan Ruvalcaba

In this advanced ambulatory care elective, students work alongside UCSF-Fresno FCM faculty and residents in a busy primary care clinic. They are expected to function at the level of an intern while providing acute, chronic, and preventative care.

Instructor(s): Daa Xiao

In this inpatient rotation, students function as junior interns on the teaching service at Community Regional Medical Center in Downtown Fresno. Students will work alongside UCSF-Fresno Family & Community Medicine residents and faculty. This rotation includes taking call with the residents, attending patient rounds, and attending weekly didactic sessions.

Instructor(s): Dumindra Gurusinghe

This 4 week elective will focus on the care of patients with serious, chronic and terminal illness emphasizing symptom management, communication, ethical issues and psychosocial support of patients and their families. Students will spend time with the interdisciplinary palliative care team made up of an attending physician, nurse specialist, social worker, and chaplain.

Instructor(s): Dumindra Gurusinghe

This 2 week elective will focus on the care of patients with serious, chronic and terminal illness emphasizing symptom management, communication, ethical issues and psychosocial support of patients and their families. Students will spend time with the interdisciplinary palliative care team made up of an attending physician, nurse specialist, social worker, and chaplain.

Instructor(s): Daa Xiao, Muhammad Khan

Opportunity to broaden and enhance their professional development in healthcare settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will spend 4 weeks on the inpatient UCSF Fresno Family Medicine Obstetrics (FMOB) service at CRMC working with our multidisciplinary team. They will also spend two half days per week at an outpatient prenatal care clinic at the United Health Centers of San Joaquin Valley (UHC) in Parlier.

Instructor(s): Norman Hearst, Erica Brode

A 4-6 week elective involving placement at a supervised clinical or public health training and/or service site abroad.

Instructor(s): Lealah Pollock, Erica Brode

This course will provide an opportunity for 4th year medical students to work with family physicians and gain experience in providing health care for women, care for patients with HIV, and care for families where one person or more has HIV.

Instructor(s): Anand Dhruva, Jenifer Matthews

This elective course integrates nutrition science and culinary practice to develop patient-centered and culturally responsive dietary strategies that promote health and well-being. Students will examine the interplay between local food environments, planetary health, and farm-to-table approaches, while engaging with diverse cultural perspectives on nutrition. The course provides a hands-on framework for translating core nutrition principles into clinical and community applications.

Instructor(s): Erica Brode

Clinical epidemiology, health services, or behavioral science research approaches are applied in the study of selected areas in family medicine or community health.

Instructor(s): Mary Turocy

Explores in systematic (lecture/readings/discussion) format new issues in health care or special content areas related to Family and Community health. Topics are developed and prepared according to faculty-student interests.

Instructor(s): Mary Turocy

Explores in systematic (lecture/readings/discussion) format new issues in health care or special content areas related to family and community health. Topics are developed and prepared according to faculty-student interests.

Instructor(s): Mary Turocy

Explores in systematic (lecture/readings/discussion) format new issues in health care or special content areas related to family and community health. Topics are developed and prepared according to faculty-student interests.

Instructor(s): Mary Turocy

Explores in systematic (lecture/readings/discussion) format new issues in health care or special content areas related to family and community health. Topics are developed and prepared according to faculty-student interests.

Instructor(s): Mary Turocy

Explores in systematic (lecture/readings/discussion) format new issues in health care or special content areas related to family and community health. Topics are developed and prepared according to faculty-student interests.

Instructor(s): Shieva Khayam-Bashi, Thomas McNalley

Guest speakers will share lectures, stories, clinical pearls, and personal experiences to promote discussions for deeper understanding & skill-building in communication, engagement, compassion and connection with patients. Topics may include: empathic listening; tips for communicating with compassion; using the BATHE technique in challenging dialogues; patient stories as narrative experiences; medical humanities; spirituality; grief and loss; mindful presence; Impostor Syndrome; and more.

Instructor(s): Erica Brode

Students will engage in discussion with speakers on various primary care topics including a day in the life of a primary care physician, women’s health, HIV care, care of vulnerable patient populations, etc. The course will follow a lecture/discussion format with presentations by visiting speakers followed by group discussion.

Instructor(s): Clarissa Kripke

This course, created entirely by UCSF students and health care providers who themselves identify as having a disability or chronic illness, will increase awareness and support of disability and chronic illness on UCSF campuses, and take this learning forward into each student’s clinical practices.

Instructor(s): Heather Hervey-Jumper, Monica Hahn

This is a required elective for PRIME-US students that is taken a minimum of four times by each PRIME-US@UCSF student during the fall, winter, and spring of the first year of medical school and the fall of the second year of medical school and five times for PRIME-US@JMP students (times listed above and additional spring of second year.) Additionally, PRIME-US@JMP students and PRIME-US@UCSF students may take FAM CM MED 170.06 again during Career Launch, at the discretion of the course director.

Instructor(s): Anand Dhruva

This introductory 1 unit P/NP course is open to all UCSF students and explores the general theory and practice of several widely utilized non-allopathic healing modalities with the aim of demonstrating how these therapies can be complementary to modern biomedicine. This is a student run elective that is held once annually, please check the SOM undergraduate electives page to verify when the course will be held.

Instructor(s): Erica Brode, Daniel Freitas, Elizabeth Abbs

A survey course covering the broad spectrum of living issues (health care, drug addiction, HIV, shelter life, etc.) confronting the homeless population of San Francisco. The course will consist of work at a Homeless Shelter, with half the time in group discussion/seminar and half the time doing clinical work with patients at a shelter.

Instructor(s): Manuel Tapia

This course is focused on professional development skills-building in which medical students work directly with Family Resource Centers (FRCs) across San Francisco. This course focuses on community engagement/development as students will make recurrent site visits to the FRCs. During this course, students will co-facilitate at least two Health Coaching sessions, and strategize with colleagues and FRC community partners on how to develop curricular improvements for the following academic year.

Instructor(s): Loren Alving, Yolanda Tinajero

Students enrolled in this course are part of the SJV PRIME cohort and will participate in a longitudinal seminar series. Seminars will explore and discuss topics related to health disparities in the central San Joaquin valley.

Instructor(s): Shieva Khayam-Bashi, Naomi Saks

This course addresses spiritual, existential, and emotional dimensions of illness including suffering, meaning, and death. Methods include reflective writing, dialogue, contemplative practices, and case analysis.

Instructor(s): Triveni Defries, Rebeccah Brusca

The course will empower students to both understand and act to alleviate the health challenges faced by displaced populations. The elective will host speakers who are leaders in asylum medicine, refugee and immigrant health. Students will learn to conduct forensic medical and psychiatric evaluations of asylum seekers. Students will have the opportunity to apply skills learned during the elective by participating in forensic evaluations in the UCSF Human Rights Collaborative.

Instructor(s): Daniel Ciccarone

This elective explores the principles of harm reduction and the health care and structural challenges among people living with substance use disorders. Our speakers include community stakeholders in the harm reduction movement, health professionals and researchers. Our goal is to help dismantle stigma around drug use and help students recognize substance use disorders as a pressing primary care and public health issue that can be addressed using evidenced-based interventions.

Instructor(s): Dan Tennenhouse

Fundamental legal principles and procedures affecting medical practice, with emphasis on medical negligence; the physician's role in the litigation process; the areas of medical practice which most frequently involve litigation; and practical measures to minimize the risk of lawsuit.

Instructor(s): Dan Tennenhouse

Fundamental legal principles and procedures affecting medical practice, with emphasis on medical negligence; the physician's role in the litigation process; the areas of medical practice which most frequently involve litigation; and practical measures to minimize the risk of lawsuit.

Instructor(s): Manuel Tapia

An introduction to demographic, political/economic, anthropologic and sociologic issues of importance for the health of diverse Latino subcultures in the US.

Instructor(s): Erica Brode

Library research and directed reading under supervision of a member of the faculty with the approval of the chairperson of the department.