DHM

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 Division of Hospital Medicine meetings, and regular mentoring meetings.

AHMF Core Experiences: All Fellows

Clinical Training
  • 2 months as ward attending on the teaching service at Moffitt-Long Hospital
  • 1 month as attending on the Medical Consult-Comanagement service at Moffitt-Long Hospital
  • 2-4 weeks of mentored Palliative Care training

Research methods and clinical epidemiology
Educational Training
  • Participation in the Stanford Faculty Development Clinical Teaching program, taught at UCSF by Brad Sharpe
  • Participation in monthly Faculty Development Workshops, administered by the UCSF Office of Medical Education
  • Monthly mentored small group teaching of medical students during medicine clerkship and intersession
  • Mentoring and debriefing of teaching sessions during clinical rotations

Leadership training
Quality Improvement training
  • Participation in monthly Quality Improvement Curriculum didactic and training sessions
  • 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 WebM&M or AHRQ PSNet 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 Margaret Fang, Director and Cindy Lai, Co-Director. They 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 Bob Wachter, Andrew Auerbach, Michelle Mourad, and Sumant Ranji.

To Apply: Applicants interested in the UCSF Academic Hospital Medicine Fellowship should send their CV, an introductory letter, and names of 3 references at the DHM Job Board. Applicants must have completed (or be in the final year of) a residency in Internal Medicine at an accredited, US-based institution, must be a US citizen, and at least one reference must be from the applicant's residency program leadership (program director or associate program director). Applications for positions beginning July 2013 will be accepted through December 31, 2012.