Instructor(s): Cindy Lai, Gurpreet Dhaliwal, Binh An Phan

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.

Instructor(s): Stephanie Rennke

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.

Instructor(s): Anna Malkina

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.

Instructor(s): Max Brondfield

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.

Instructor(s): Lorriana Leard, Steve Hays

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.

Instructor(s): Courtney Sherman

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.

Instructor(s): Patricia O'sullivan, David Irby

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.

Instructor(s): Rahmat Balogun

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.

Instructor(s): Elizabeth Imbert

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.

Instructor(s): Patricia Cornett

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.

Instructor(s): Abigail Wilson

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.

Instructor(s): Paul Nadler

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.

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 an inpatient immersive elective in medicine or pediatrics, which will provide additional experience in these disciplines in the inpatient setting.

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. 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 longitudinal programs.

Instructor(s): Kara Bischoff

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.

Instructor(s): Lucas Zier

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.

Instructor(s): Louise Aronson

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.

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 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.

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 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.

Instructor(s): Brian Lin

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.

Instructor(s): Meghan O'brien, Triveni Defries

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.

Instructor(s): Diana Thiara

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.

Instructor(s): John Szumowski

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.

Instructor(s): Huat Chye Lim

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.

Instructor(s): Lin Li, Loren Alving

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.

Instructor(s): Lin Li

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.

Instructor(s): Geetha Sivasubramanian

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.

Instructor(s): Kathryn Bilello

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.

Instructor(s): Varsha Babu

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.

Instructor(s): Marina Roytman

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.

Instructor(s): Uzair Chaudhary, Haifaa Abdulhaq

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.

Instructor(s): Lourdes DelRosso

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.

Instructor(s): Candice Marie Yuvienco

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.

Instructor(s): Joseph Duflot

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.

Instructor(s): Ankit Rathod

This course will allow students to 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 are welcome to sit in on inpatient rounds and see patients with the inpatient team.

Instructor(s): Lynnea Mills, Cindy Lai, Gurpreet Dhaliwal, Binh An Phan, Sirisha Narayana

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.

Instructor(s): Cindy Lai

Clinical clerkships in off-campus hospitals approved by the department chairperson, third- and fourth-year coordinator and the dean.

Instructor(s): Cindy Lai

Clinical clerkships in off-campus hospitals approved by the department chairperson, third- and fourth-year coordinator and the dean.

Instructor(s): Michi Yukawa

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.

Instructor(s): Emma Bainbridge

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.

Instructor(s): Janet Ho

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.

Instructor(s): Rahmat Balogun, Robert Kosnik, Robert Harrison

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.

Instructor(s): Judy Cheng

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.

Instructor(s): Max Brondfield

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).

Instructor(s): Patricia Cornett

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.

Instructor(s): Patricia Cornett

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.

Instructor(s): Susa Coffey

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.

Instructor(s): Susa Coffey

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.

Instructor(s): Franco Chevalier

Fourth-year medical students will be trained in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of sexually transmitted diseases in the clinical setting.

Instructor(s): Aaron Lam

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.

Instructor(s): John Teerlink

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.

Instructor(s): David Sears

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.

Instructor(s): Christina Chou

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.

Instructor(s): Christina Chou

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.

Instructor(s): Emily Silverman

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.

Instructor(s): Umesh Masharani

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.

Instructor(s): Sarah French, Sarah Goglin

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.

Instructor(s): Ramin Sam

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.

Instructor(s): James Frank

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.

Instructor(s): Phillip Kennedy

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.

Instructor(s): Huat Chye Lim

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.

Instructor(s): Sophie Patzek

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.

Instructor(s): Sophie Patzek

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.

Instructor(s): Ryan Chang

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.

Instructor(s): Kristen Kipps

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.

Instructor(s): Anna Malkina

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.

Instructor(s): Mary Gray

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.

Instructor(s): Paul Wolters

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.

Instructor(s): Colin Feuille

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.

Instructor(s): Dean Ornish

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.

Instructor(s): Anne Schafer

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.

Instructor(s): John Metcalfe

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.

Instructor(s): Daniel Raybin

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.

Instructor(s): Emma Shak

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.

Instructor(s): Phillip Kennedy

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.

Instructor(s): Archana Sridhar

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.

Instructor(s): Laxmi Ghimire, Ana Carolina Coll

During this course, students will practice pediatric cardiovascular examination and learn the essentials of cardiovascular development and common congenital heart defects. Students will have the opportunity to see patients in the both the hospital and clinic setting and will also observe procedures including exercise stress tests.

Instructor(s): Manjit Singh

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.

Instructor(s): Geetha Sivasubramanian, Naiel Nassar

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.

Instructor(s): Geetha Sivasubramanian

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.

Instructor(s): Ankit Rathod

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.

Instructor(s): Abhishek Karwa, Gabe Ortiz

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.

Instructor(s): Kathryn Bilello, Michael Peterson

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.

Instructor(s): Kathryn Bilello, Vipul Jain

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.

Instructor(s): Eric Widera

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.

Instructor(s): Ankit Rathod

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.

Instructor(s): Ankit Rathod

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.

Instructor(s): Varsha Babu

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.

Instructor(s): Varsha Babu

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.

Instructor(s): Kathryn Bilello, Timothy Evans

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.

Instructor(s): Marina Roytman

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.

Instructor(s): Marina Roytman

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.

Instructor(s): Uzair Chaudhary, Haifaa Abdulhaq

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.

Instructor(s): Uzair Chaudhary, Haifaa Abdulhaq

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.

Instructor(s): Lourdes DelRosso

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.

Instructor(s): Candice Marie Yuvienco

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.

Instructor(s): Candice Marie Yuvienco

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.

Instructor(s): Joseph Duflot

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.

Instructor(s): Joseph Duflot

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.

Instructor(s): Monica Bhargava

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.

Instructor(s): Cara Pellegrini, Thomas Dewland

The course consists of interactive small group workshops focused on cardiac electrophysiology, derivation of ECG wave forms, and diagnoses of common electrocardiographic abnormalities.

Instructor(s): Anand Dhruva

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. \r\n\r\nWeek 1: Learners will start in the classroom engaging with flipped classroom content, discussions, and skills-based experiential activities. \r\nWeek 2: Learners will take the knowledge and skills that they have developed and apply them in a mentored setting in the Osher Center Clinic.

Instructor(s): Tyronda Elliott

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.

Instructor(s): Phillip Kennedy

Students learn critical care medicine im a busy ICU with a diverse patient population and broad ranging case mix.

Instructor(s): Crystal Zhou

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.

Instructor(s): Alex Logan, Meghan O'brien, Triveni Defries

During this 4 week elective, MS4s will build confidence and skill caring for patients with substance use disorders by joining ZSFGs 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.

Instructor(s): Cindy Lai

Students continue previously initiated research projects under the guidance of faculty members.

Instructor(s): Raga Ramachandran

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

Instructor(s): Cindy Lai

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.

Instructor(s): Cindy Lai

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.

Instructor(s): Cindy Lai

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.