Internal Medicine residents planning a career in hospital medicine have three separate training options with the UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine:
We welcome informal inquiries regarding any of the fellowships.
The UCSF Clinician-Investigator Fellowship
The Division of Hospital Medicine provides training for hospitalists who plan a career in research via the 2-year UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine Research Fellowship.
Clinician-Investigator Fellows attend weekly ‘works-in-progress meetings’ with the other general internal medicine fellows and faculty, meet with Dr. Andy Auerbach biweekly to monthly (and other mentors as appropriate), and participate in the 2 month Introduction to Clinical Research (“TICR”) and year-long Advanced Training in Clinical Research courses. Clinician-Investigator Fellows spend their clinical time (2-3 months/year) in hospital medicine (wards and consult), and receive research and career-focused mentorship from Hospitalist Group Faculty as well as research and methodologic mentorship from the DGIM fellowship faculty. A number of UCSF Hospitalist faculty are also faculty for the DGIM fellowship (Dr. Robert Wachter, Dr. Sumant Ranji, Dr. Steve Pantilat, and Dr. Margaret Fang), and Dr. Auerbach is Co-Director and Parnassus Site Coordinator for the DGIM fellowship.
Clinical time is arranged to allow fellows to attend research courses, seminars, and other relevant activities. At the end of the fellowship, physicians are expected to have produced a publishable paper, to have presented at a national meeting, and to have the skills and experiences that will make them competitive candidates for a research-oriented hospitalist faculty position.
To Apply: Interested applicants should send their CV, an introductory letter, and names of 3 references to Dr. Auerbach at ada@medicine.ucsf.edu and Dr. Andrew Bindman at abindman@medsfgh.ucsf.edu.
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The UCSF Palliative Medicine Fellowship
Under the leadership of Dr. Steven Pantilat, UCSF offers a one-year clinical fellowship in Palliative Medicine designed to qualify individuals for board certification in palliative medicine. The UCSF Palliative Care Fellowship includes a broad range of clinical and educational experiences designed to train physicians to join or lead palliative care programs. Recently, the UCSF Palliative Care Program received the prestigious Circle of Life award from the AHA, which honors innovative and exemplary palliative care programs.
Our 10 faculty attending physicians on the Palliative Care Service are from a wide variety of disciplines including hospital medicine, general internal medicine, geriatrics, family medicine, and oncology. Our team includes physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and pharmacists actively involved in patient care, program development, education, and research. The inpatient palliative care service acts as a training site for UCSF medical students and internal medicine and family medicine residents creating a robust and stimulating educational environment. The one-year clinical fellowship includes:
- Inpatient palliative care experience on the busy, interdisciplinary UCSF Medical Center Palliative Care Service and the San Francisco VA Palliative Care Service where fellows will see a wide-variety of patients in all hospital settings and services, including on our 2-bed inpatient Palliative Care Unit (the Comfort Care Suites) under the supervision of our Palliative Care Attending Physician staff
- Outpatient palliative care training with local hospices and our growing Palliative Care Clinic at the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center located on the Mt. Zion campus
- Home Hospice and Inpatient Hospice experience through local hospices and at the San Francisco VA inpatient hospice unit
- Pain Management training through the outpatient pain clinic at San Francisco General Hospital and with the UCSF Medical Center Pain Consultation Service
- Didactic and interactive educational experiences in all aspects of palliative care
- Opportunities to participate in teaching palliative care to medical students and residents
- Opportunities for professional development in education, administration, quality improvement and others based on the interests of the individual fellow (see UCSF Academic Hospital Medicine Fellowship for details)
- Opportunities to extend fellowship to two years to pursue research in palliative care for fellows interested in pursuing an academic, research-based career in palliative medicine (see UCSF Clinician-Investigator Fellowship for details)
To Apply: Please note that this fellowship program is currently being redeveloped and will recommence in July 2009. Applicants interested in pursuing training with the UCSF Palliative Medicine Fellowship should send their CV and a letter via e-mail to Dr. Eva Chittenden: evac@medicine.ucsf.edu. Please cc: administrator Emily Philipps on this e-mail (ephilipps@medicine.ucsf.edu). We will send you more information and an application in October.
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The UCSF Academic Hospital Medicine Fellowship
The goal of the 1-year UCSF Academic Hospital Medicine Fellowship (AHMF) is to train the next generation of hospitalist program directors, quality improvement and patient safety leaders, and directors of clinical education programs for students, residents, and fellow hospitalists. The UCSF AHMF is ideal for graduating residents or early career hospitalists who anticipate careers as clinician-educators or clinician-administrators in a teaching hospital setting.
The AHMF will provide fellows with training in teaching skills, curriculum design, quality improvement, and leadership through a structured curriculum tailored to suit individual interests. AHMF Fellows will participate in a series of core and elective activities detailed below; fellows will be encouraged to select an area of interest and specific opportunities in advance. All fellows will also attend monthly Fellows’ Works-in-Progress sessions, weekly Hospitalist Group meetings, and regular mentoring meetings.
AHMF Core Experiences: All Fellows
Clinical Training
- 4 months of clinical time, including 2 months attending on teaching service at Moffitt-Long hospital, 1 month attending on non-teaching service either at Mount Zion or at Moffitt-Long hospital, and 1 month attending on medical consult service
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2-4 weeks of mentored Palliative Care training
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Additional training in ICU care and inpatient procedures may be available
Research methods and clinical epidemiology
Educational Training
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Participation in the Stanford Faculty Development Clinical Teaching program, taught at UCSF by Dr. Brad Sharpe
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Participation in monthly Faculty Development Workshops, administered by the UCSF Office of Medical Education
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Monthly mentored small group teaching of medical students during medicine clerkship and intersession
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Mentoring and debriefing of teaching sessions during clinical rotations
Leadership training
Quality Improvement training
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Participation in monthly Quality Improvement Curriculum didactic and training sessions
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Participation in an ongoing quality improvement or patient safety project at UCSF Medical Center
*** Elective training
All fellows will also choose one or more elective experiences chosen according to their interests.
Educational electives
-Participation in weekly Educational Scholarship Conference (ESCape) through the Office of Medical Education at UCSF
-Participation in ongoing curriculum development projects within the UCSF School of Medicine and Internal Medicine Residency program
Quality Improvement
Preparation of literature reviews and case reports on patient safety topics for AHRQ PSNet or AHRQ Web M&M as circumstances dictate
Through participation in these activities, fellows will produce at least 1 scholarly work during their year. Examples of scholarly work include case reports or clinical vignettes, brief reports of curricular or quality improvement initiatives, and original research.
The Academic Hospital Medicine Fellowship is led by Dr. Sumant Ranji, who will work with fellows to develop a course of study consistent with each fellow’s interest within the rich set of resources available at UCSF. All fellows will also receive mentorship from within the Hospitalist group, with potential mentors including Dr. Wachter, Dr. Auerbach, Dr. Arpana Vidyarthi, Dr. Karen Hauer, and Dr. Cindy Lai.
To Apply: Applicants interested in the UCSF Academic Hospital Medicine Fellowship should send their CV, an introductory letter, and names of 3 references to Dr. Auerbach at ada@medicine.ucsf.edu and Dr. Sumant Ranji at sumantr@medicine.ucsf.edu.
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