Susan Wlodarczyk, MD

Associate Professor

Dr. Susan Wlodarczyk graduated from the UCSF School of Medicine in 2011 and completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at UCSF. She was selected to be a Chief Resident at San Francisco General Hospital for 2014-2015. Dr. Wlodarczyk has been a clinician-educator in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the San Francisco VA since 2015. She works on a variety of clinical services providing direct patient care for hospitalized adults admitted to the medical service, surgical co-management service and inpatient medicine consult service. She also teaches and supervises medical students and internal medicine residents while attending on the inpatient medicine wards.

She is very involved in medical education at UCSF and is the Internal Medicine Residency Inpatient Site Director at the San Francisco VA. She served as a course director for “Ground School,” the first foundational sciences course in the UCSF School of Medicine from 2016-2021. Dr. Wlodarczyk’s academic interests include curricular development, learner assessment and teaching learning theory to medical students. She serves as an advisor in the Internal Medicine residency program and as a Clinical Microsystems Clerkship preceptor in the School of Medicine.







Hospitalist, Department of Internal Medicine, San Francisco VA Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Education
2017 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
Chief Residency, 2015 - Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Internal Medicine Internship & Residency, 2014 - Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
M.D., 2011 - Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Honors and Awards
  • Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF, 2020
  • Teaching Scholars Program, UCSF, 2018-2019
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, 2017
  • Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honors Society, UCSF School of Medicine, 2010
  • Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005
Publications
  1. Wlodarczyk S, Dhaliwal G. The Learning Sciences Meet the Learning Health System. JAMA network open 2022. PMID: 35881402


  2. Zapata J, Price E, Wlodarczyk S. Fracture Blisters. "Are Telehealth Visits Feasible for Vulnerable Patients?" 2022. PMID: 35419743


  3. Wlodarczyk S, Muller-Juge V, Hauer KE, Tong MS, Ransohoff A, Boscardin C. Assessment to Optimize Learning Strategies: a Qualitative Study of Student and Faculty Perceptions. Teaching and learning in medicine 2021. PMID: 33439035


  4. Ransohoff A, Boscardin C, Hauer KE, Wlodarczyk S. Rethinking How to Introduce the Learning Sciences: a Near-Peer Approach. Medical Science Educator 2020. PMID: 34457862


  5. Adler E, Bloyd C, Wlodarczyk S. Chylous Ascites. Journal of general internal medicine 2019. PMID: 31720957


  6. Wlodarczyk S, Zapata JA. Uremic Frost. Mayo Clinic proceedings 2018. PMID: 30286839