General Internal Medicine

Faculty Name:Kathy Julian Contact information: Kathy.julian@ucsf.edu Subspecialty/Research Focus: Medical education Title/Description of Research Projects I have many potential education projects. They focus on faculty development, teaching residents to teach, and resident education.

Faculty Name: Michael Rabow, M.D. Subspecialty/Research Focus: Palliative Care, End-of-life care, Medical Education, Professional Development, Humanity in Medicine Title of research project: Learning in the Valley of Death A cohort study of UCSF medical students from the Class of 2005 investigating the hidden curriculum in end-of-life care training. This project includes survey research from the entire class yearly since the second year and qualitative analysis from repeated interviews from a subset of students. Symptom Management and Palliative Care at the UCSF/Mount Zion Comprehensive Cancer Center This project is to perform a detail needs assessment among both patients and clinicians, and then to develop, implement, and evaluate a symptom management and palliative care consultation service.

Faculty Name: Calvin Chou, MD, PhD Contact Information: calvin.chou@ucsf.edu; 415-221-4810 x2740 Subspecialty/Research Focus: Medical Education; Clinical Skills Teaching and Curriculum Development Title of research projects: Evaluation of VALOR, a novel cross-clerkship, interdisciplinary, relationship-centered model of teaching 3rd year medical students. Potential outcomes include comparing VALOR to traditional clerkship models and assessing differences in clinical skills. Assessment of novel electronic resources on skills development in medical students I would also be eager to brainstorm projects with residents in the area of curriculum development and evaluation in teaching communication skills and/or physical examination.

Faculty Name: Gurpreet Dhaliwal, M.D. Contact Information: gurpreet.dhaliwal@va.gov; 415-221-4810 x 4150 Subspecialty/Research Focus: case reports; diagnostic dilemma cases; analysis of clinical problem solving/diagnosis

Medical Education

Faculty Name: Molly Cooke, M.D. Contact information:415-514-2282;,mcooke@medicine.ucsf.edu Subspecialty/Research: Focus medical education Title/Description of Research Projects I am completing a book on medical education, along with colleagues Dave Irby and Bridget OÕBrien; publication is anticipated in mid-2008. Working on the book has provided me with a strong command of the theoretical frameworks supporting educational innovations in workplace/clinical learning and a broad grounding in the empirical literature. As I return from sabbatical I am re-engaging with a wide variety of educational program development projects at both the undergraduate and residency level. I am able to assist residents with relatively defined research interests to realize their own research project. In addition, I have a detailed understanding of the entire curriculum and am aware of many opportunities for a resident interested in medical education to participate in program development, assist with assessment and/or conduct research in either undergraduate or graduate level medical education.

Faculty Name: Karen Hauer, M.D. Subspecialty/Research Focus/Brief description: Hospitalist, Director of Internal Medicine Clerkships. My research interests include the impact of hospitalists on education, clinical skills training and evaluation, mentoring, qualitative research, medical student education.

Faculty Name: Arpana Vidyarthi, M.D. Subspecialty/Research Focus: Hospitalist/educational research in GME, organizational change. Title of research project: Impact of Decreased Duty Hours on the Well-Being of Residents. Brief description of research project: Lange longitudinal survey of all disciplines with standardized questions done longitudinally for interns last year. Plenty of questions to ask this database.

Faculty Name: Rebecca Shunk, MD Subspecialty/Research Focus: Physical Exam Instruction Internal Medicine-Curriculum Development/Cardiac. Title of research project: An ECG and Cardiac Physical Exam Curriculum for Residents. Brief description of research project: We are implementing a computer based cardiac physical exam training module to our established curriculum and looking and its availability to improve resident learning on the cardiac physical exam.

Faculty Name: Arianne Teherani, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UCSF School of Medicine, Box 0410 Subspecialty/Research Focus: My research is in medical education. Specifically, my focus is on clinical learning, cognitive learning, and professionalism. Title of research project: Presently have multiple research projects.

Medical Education Research