Instructor(s): Daniel Minter, Dana Larsen, Raga Ramachandran, Marta Margeta

This SOM Bridges Curriculum course brings students together every other week during the year-long Foundations phase to reinforce and advance their understanding of foundational science and develop health care testing knowledge. Students step out of concurrent clinical rotations to participate in this course. FS-in-F2 day components are: Family & Community Medicine seminar, foundations of high-value healthcare and Foundational Sciences curriculum.

Instructor(s): Dana Larsen, Daniel Minter, Raga Ramachandran

This SOM Bridges Curriculum course brings students together during Foundations 2 to advance their understanding of foundational science and develop healthcare testing knowledge. Students step out of concurrent clinical rotations to participate in this course. Learning methods will vary by session topic, including but not limited to presentations, problem-based learning and simulation. IDS 113B components are Appropriate Use of Diagnostic Tests and Foundational Sciences in Foundations 2.

Instructor(s): Daniel Minter, Dana Larsen, Raga Ramachandran, Marta Margeta

This SOM Bridges Curriculum course brings students together during Foundations 2 to advance their understanding of foundational science and develop healthcare testing knowledge. Students step out of concurrent clinical rotations to participate in this course. Learning methods will vary by session topic, including but not limited to presentations, problem-based learning and simulation. IDS 113C components are Appropriate Use of Diagnostic Tests and Foundational Sciences in Foundations 2.

Instructor(s): Dana Larsen, Daniel Minter, Marta Margeta, Raga Ramachandran

This SOM Bridges Curriculum course brings students together during Foundations 2 to advance their understanding of foundational science and diagnostic tests. Students step out of concurrent clinical rotations to participate in this course. Learning methods will vary by session topic, including but not limited to presentations, problem-based learning and simulation. IDS 113D components are Appropriate Use of Diagnostic Tests and Foundational Sciences in Foundations 2.

Instructor(s): Bradley Monash

This course is intended to serve as a springboard from medical school to internship. The approach to common clinical, ethical, and social situations encountered during internship will be covered through a combination of lectures, seminars, small groups, team teaching and hands-on skills sessions.

Instructor(s): Noriko Anderson, Margaret Lin-Martore

Physician Identity Weeks are focused on developing each medical students identity as a physician. Each week will include activities designed to help students consolidate and build upon learning during intervening portions of the curriculum. The weeks provide space for reflection and professional growth, opportunities to work with peers, coaches, and other facilitators, and time to pursue activities related to career exploration as well as para-curricular activities of interest.

Instructor(s): Margaret Lin-Martore, Noriko Anderson

This SOM Bridges Curriculum series is a sequence of one week courses taught in intervals throughout Foundations 2 and Career Launch. Students participate in formative and summative assessments, review performance data holistically, reflect on professional identity formation, meet with Coaches to develop learning plans, and engage in wellness activities with peers. Sessions are designed to address students' learning needs at this point in the curriculum.

Instructor(s): Margaret Lin-Martore, Noriko Anderson

This SOM Bridges Curriculum series is a sequence of one week courses taught in intervals throughout Foundations 2 and Career Launch. Students participate in formative and summative assessments, holistically review performance data, reflect on professional identity formation, meet with Coaches to develop learning plans, and engage in wellness activities with peers.

Instructor(s): Noriko Anderson, Margaret Lin-Martore

This SOM Bridges Curriculum series is a sequence of one week courses taught in intervals throughout Foundations 2 and Career Launch. Students participate in formative and summative assessments, holistically review performance data, reflect on professional identity formation, meet with Coaches to develop learning plans, and engage in wellness activities with peers.

Instructor(s): Rita Redberg, Christopher Stewart

This will be a mentored experience in research or scholarship for students in Career Launch. It will be required of students who have not completed a thesis (e.g. Masters, PhD) while at UCSF. A wide range of research topics is expected. The Deep Explore months may be split among multiple quarters with every student making an individual schedule and multiple sites, including off-campus sites, will be utilized.

Instructor(s): Bradley Monash, Patricia Cornett

This course will provide students an introduction to the clinical curricular components of Career Launch and important clinical curriculum in support of their advanced rotations and their further development towards physicianship. Students will participate in a mixture of didactic and small group learning activities, which will address healthcare needs in all clinical settings (home, ambulatory, inpatient, intermediate/longterm care) as appropriate.

Instructor(s): Rebecca Graff

Designing and Conducting Research (DCR) is an introduction to the process of conceiving and conducting scholarly projects. Students will be exposed to overarching concepts and essential vocabulary for interpreting and executing scholarly work. Weekly coursework will culminate in the creation of a proposal for the Deep Explore project.

Instructor(s): Marieke Kruidering

This Bridges Curriculum course includes the emerging science of health systems and enduring sciences of structural & microscopic anatomy, cell biology, immunology, genetics, pharmacology, & pathology. It begins the Clinical Microsystem Clerkship (CMC) experience and initiates the Core Inquiry Curriculum (CIC), introducing critical analysis of medical science advances.

Instructor(s): Dana Rohde

This 2nd Bridges Curriculum course has content in CV, pulmonary, and hematology medicine. It explores justice and advocacy in medicine through a social and behavioral sciences lens. It continues an immersive experience in a longitudinal Clinical Microsystem Clerkship (CMC) and a longitudinal Core Inquiry Curriculum (CIC). The course is split by Physician Identity (PI) Week 1, which has structured activities for students to review their academic progress and create learning plans.

Instructor(s): Justin Sewell

This Bridges Curriculum course has content in renal, GI, and endocrine medicine. It explores justice and advocacy in medicine through a sociology, public health, and genetics sciences lens. It continues an immersive experience in a longitudinal Clinical Microsystem Clerkship (CMC) and a longitudinal Core Inquiry Curriculum (CIC).

Instructor(s): Luis Rubio

This SOM Bridges Curriculum course introduces the core foundational science content for immunology, rheumatology, microbiology, infectious diseases, leukemia, and lymphoma. It includes the longitudinal Clinical Microsystem Clerkship (CMC) and a longitudinal Core Inquiry Curriculum (CIC). The course is split by Physician Identity (PI) Week 3, which has structured activities for students to review their academic progress and create learning plans.

Instructor(s): Naomi Stotland

This Bridges Curriculum course focuses on health aging and development. It introduces the core foundational science content for reproduction, pregnancy, infancy, gynecology, and urology, and common issues in geriatrics. It includes the longitudinal Clinical Microsystem Clerkship (CMC) and a longitudinal Core Inquiry Curriculum (CIC).

Instructor(s): S Andrew Josephson

This Bridges Curriculum course focuses on the structure and function of the brain, nervous systems and movement systems. It includes core foundational science content in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, and applicable areas of social and behavioral science. It also includes the longitudinal Clinical Microsystem Clerkship (CMC), a longitudinal Core Inquiry Curriculum (CIC) and the fourth Physician Identity (PI) Week.

Instructor(s): Sirisha Narayana

This Bridges Curriculum course focuses on clinical reasoning at the individual patient level. It introduces an approach for communicating critical thinking to others and generating a prioritized differential diagnosis based on an effective problem representation. It includes the longitudinal Clinical Microsystem Clerkship (CMC) and the longitudinal Core Inquiry Curriculum (CIC).

Instructor(s): Nilika Singhal, Susan Miller

This Inquiry Immersion course within the Bridges Curriculum is a two-week block that includes foundational didactics, a selective mini-course, and scholarship skill-building.

Instructor(s): Beth Griffiths, Naomi Wortis

In this course, students will integrate and apply learning from the entire Bridges curriculum to serving the needs of the community. Students will spend the majority of their time at a chosen community-based site(s) with the opportunity to contribute to a community-engaged project and/or advocate for policy change, while also providing interdisciplinary clinical and/or preventive care. Weekly didactics will include guest speakers, small group exercises, site visits, and reflections.

Instructor(s): Beth Griffiths, Naomi Wortis

In this course, students will integrate and apply learning from the entire Bridges curriculum to serving the needs of the community. Students will spend the majority of their time at a chosen community-based site(s) with the opportunity to contribute to a community-engaged project and/or advocate for policy change, while also providing interdisciplinary clinical and/or preventive care. Students will complete community-engaged project work longitudinally in response to public health needs.

Instructor(s): Katherine Lupton

This course provides students a longitudinal ambulatory clinical experience in conjunction with their Career Launch clinical rotations. Students work in the outpatient clinic 1:1 with a faculty preceptor longitudinally over the 61 weeks of Career Launch in a specialty/subspecialty of their choosing.

Instructor(s): Michi Yukawa

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 knowledge and skills serving as a member of a highly functional interprofessional team caring for medically complex patients at a skilled nursing facility.

Instructor(s): Sara Buckelew

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. The UCSF Adolescent and Young Adult Eating Disorder Program is a unique clinical and research program that is a partnership between the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Psychiatry.

Instructor(s): Nicole Schroeder

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 was designed to provide a comprehensive review of common musculoskeletal disease processes by those physicians who treat them.

Instructor(s): Abhishek Karwa

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. The elective builds on general medicine skills learned in the outpatient and inpatient setting, and allows students to apply these skills to assist in the care of patients with acute or chronic medical comorbidities.

Instructor(s): Dana Balitzer, Marta Margeta

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 the workflow of specimen processing and how to use anatomic pathology services on a multidisciplinary team. Students will engage in surgical pathology cases from specimen receiving to report completion, cytology, and autopsy.

Instructor(s): Chase Heaton

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. Successful treatment of head and neck cancer patients requires a multidisciplinary team focused on providing coordinated, individualized care. Students in this CIEx will integrate into this multidisciplinary team.

Instructor(s): Tomoya Hirota

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provides medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. The UCSF Center for ASD and other NDDs is a multidisciplinary program dedicated to improving understanding, treatment, and well-being for people with autism spectrum disorder and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

Instructor(s): David Sears

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 to prescribe appropriate antibiotics for common infections in multiple settings; gain knowledge of how the microbiology lab conducts resistance testing; and learn how to control the spread of drug resistant pathogens.

Instructor(s): James Frank

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. The SFVA ICU is the only closed-format, mixed med/surg/cardiac ICU at UCSF. Students will see patients and be members of an interprofessional ICU team. They will contribute to a QI project and present their findings at the end of the rotation.

Instructor(s): Brent Lin

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 engage with pediatric patients in a dental setting to identify and stratify patients' urgency of needs. Students will conduct oral health and risk assessments, anticipatory guidance, and basic preventive care.

Instructor(s): Tal Ziv

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 this immersive elective in a specialty of interest with the goal of further clarifying potential career path options.

Instructor(s): Brian Lin

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 this immersive elective in a specialty of interest with the goal of further clarifying potential career path options.

Instructor(s): Joseph Sullivan

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 an area of career interest in a specialty of choice. The student will identify a faculty mentor or mentors and work with faculty mentor(s) to design a clinical immersion experience that exposes the student to the specialty.

Instructor(s): Katherine Brooks, Alex Logan

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 gain insight into the roles of community organizations in promoting health for underserved patients, through participation in site visits to health care settings such as methadone clinic, jail or prison health, and homeless out reach.

Instructor(s): Kate Swanson, Randeep Brar

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 provided with an overview of clinical genetics services at UCSF and gain experience in Adult and Cancer Genetics clinics, and the Genomic Medicine Lab.

Instructor(s): Joyce So, Marta Sabbadini

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 Prenatal & Pediatric Genetics, students have opportunities to attend ultrasound and prenatal diagnosis clinics, Fetal Treatment Center clinics, Pediatric Genetic Clinics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine/Genetics consults.

Instructor(s): Maria Wamsley, Joseph Sullivan

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 are paired with a preceptor in one of four surgical specialties (Orthopedics, Otolaryngology, Neurology, or Ophthalmology) and provide patient care in both the clinic setting and OR in order to understand the full continuum of care.

Instructor(s): Raga Ramachandran, Cathy Hoerth

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 identify their own faculty clinical mentor and discuss their goals with Dr. Lomen-Hoerth prior to enrolling in this CIEx.

Instructor(s): Crystal Zhou, Rose Pavlakos

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. The UCSF Division of Cardiology services 8 outpatient clinics in the Bay Area and they provide care to over 12,000 patients each year. Students will participate in direct patient care activities at Mission Bay & Parnassus.

Instructor(s): Iris Otani, Hansen Ho

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 course will provide learners with the opportunity to work closely with allergists/immunologists and to engage in unique interdisciplinary clinical programs with allergy/immunology and infectious disease specialists, pharmacists, and nurses.

Instructor(s): Melissa Coleman, Wendy Smith

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provides students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from their core clerkships. Students will rotate through the various ICUs to see the range of clinical care that is offered. Students will be members of an interprofessional team, participate in rounds, and observe procedures in the MICU, Surgical ICU, and Intensive Cardiac Care Unit.

Instructor(s): Brian Lin, Jessica Tashjian

This is a longitudinal CiEx offered to students in the KLIC SF program identified as having need for additional clinical sessions in order to achieve competency milestones for completion of the F2 phase. Session content and number of sessions to be determined by the Clerkship Director, based upon needs of the individual student.

Instructor(s): Amin Azzam

Wikipedia is the most widely used medical reference in the world. Since you and your patients use it so much, why not improve the quality of health information by learning to write for Wikipedia? This course will help you better understand the larger WP ecosystem, including Wikiprojects, Translators Without Borders, and the off line Wikipedia health app. Please note that the first two days and last day of the course are mandatory in-person attendance without exception.

Instructor(s): Kristina Sullivan, Bianca Argueza, Leo Liu, Edgar Pierluissi, Katherine Lupton, Carmen Cobb-Walch

GME Pathways offers advanced knowledge, skills, mentoring, scholarship, and a community of practice for learners in a variety of career-oriented domains such as health professions education, global health, health equity & racial justice, clinical informatics & data science, and health systems leadership. Course contents include both immersive and longitudinal elements that comprise large group presentations, small group discussions, individual meeting with mentors and work-in-progress sessions.

Instructor(s): Maria Wamsley, Angel Kuo

This course is an elective to provide interprofessional learners the opportunity to collaborate on a project or participate in an experience to enhance their knowledge of the expertise of other healthcare professionals and improve their skills in interprofessional communication and collaboration. The course will be open to all classes/years of students in the schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Physical Therapy.

Instructor(s): Lisa Berens, Stuart Gansky

The Research Fellowship Elective offers UCSF dental students the opportunity to participate in intensive, hands-on mentored research. Students work closely with faculty mentors to conduct research on a topic of importance to dentistry. By working directly with leaders in research, students learn the methods, tools, and language of science, an introduction that propels many of them into careers in academia.

Instructor(s): Jennifer Perkins

This summer intensive course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to increase their general dentistry competency to a level appropriate for their standing in the DDS Program. This course is required for any students who request financial aid during the summer quarter.

Instructor(s): Staff

In this course, dental trainees will develop their competencies as educators through direct teaching as teaching assistants and/or development of educational materials and resources.

Instructor(s): Staff

In this course, dental trainees will develop their competencies as educators through direct teaching as teaching assistants and/or development of educational materials and resources. This teaching elective is focused on clinical teaching.

Instructor(s): Lisa Berens

Through lectures and group discussions participants will obtain knowledge in dental research. Current topics, research problems, research methodology encompassing basic, applied and clinical sciences will be presented. Faculty presentations of current research will integrate research findings with clinical practice.

Instructor(s): Denise Davis, Denise Connor, Andre Campbell

Students at UCSF School of Medicine make invaluable contributions to the clinical and educational environment. This course was designed to recognize and support students in their anti-oppressive advocacy and scholarly endeavors. Students will submit a brief proposal before enrolling. In this course, students will engage in learner-centered and culturally affirming project design, implementation, reflection and advising in the form of monthly works-in-progress sessions.

Instructor(s): John Davis

In this course, students will develop an individualized plan for advanced clinical skills development and work with a mentor to make progress towards these patient care goals. Course duration and unit allotment are determined at the discretion of the course directors.

Instructor(s): Daniel Dohan

This is a utility course intended to facilitate access to UCSF resources for UC Hastings students doing research on medical topics.

Instructor(s): Staff

In this course, medical students develop their competencies as medical educators through direct teaching and/or development of medical education materials and resources.

Instructor(s): John Davis, Marieke Kruidering

This course is a program of the foundational sciences that are most relevant to clinical practice and the USMLE Step 1 and/or Step 2 exams.

Instructor(s): Marieke Kruidering

This course is a structured program for select Medical students focused on the foundational sciences that are most relevant to clinical practice and the\r\nUSMLE Step 1 and/or Step 2 exams.

Instructor(s): Staff

This course is a structured program of interdisciplinary study to take students through all of the basic, clinical, and social science material represented on the the USMLE Step 1 licensing exam.

Instructor(s): John Davis

This two-week course involves interdisciplinary study to take students through the basic, clinical, and social science material relevant to USMLE Step 2 exam, the most advanced licensing exam that medical students are required to complete. After creating and receiving approval for a study plan based on their individualized performance data from assessments in the curriculum and the USMLE Step 1 exam, students will use the plan to guide their independent preparation for Step 2 CK.

Instructor(s): John Davis

This four-week course involves interdisciplinary study to take students through the basic, clinical, and social science material relevant to USMLE Step 2 exam, the most advanced licensing exam that medical students are required to complete. After creating and receiving approval for a study plan based on their individualized performance data from assessments in the curriculum and the USMLE Step 1 exam, students will use the plan to guide their independent preparation for Step 2 CK.

Instructor(s): Aimee Kao

Full time study in other Medical Science Training Program (MSTP) components at UCSF.

Instructor(s): Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, Sharon Youmans

This program prepares students from disadvantaged backgrounds for matriculation to professional schools. UCSF faculty lead classes on health disparities, ethics, cultural sensitivity, and care for underserved communities and serve as mentors for students. Students develop skills for future success in professional schools including MCAT/DAT preparation. Students develop research skills in a CQI project and lead seminars on health topics. Students take science classes at UCB-Extension.

Instructor(s): Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo

Full time study in other Medicine Post-Baccalaureate components at UCSF

Instructor(s): Akshay Govind, Arun Sharma, Guo-Hao Lin

A didactic and collaborative elective course on dental implantology. The diagnostic, surgical, laboratory, restorative, periodontal, and maintenance phases of dental implant treatment will be presented. Course also include critical appraisal of current implant literature.