Academic Half Day
In addition to the summer lecture series, grand rounds, M&M, and our special lecture series, we offer a weekly protected educational half-day. Residents are freed from clinical duties for a 3-hour block every week to participate in didactics. Our didactics are tailored to the level of the learner: we offer a separate half-day for interns and another for senior residents.
The typical format consists of 3 sessions:
- Session 1 – Team-based learning didactic
- Session 2 – Morning report-style case
- Session 3 – Rotating Curriculum: Board Review, Journal Club, Ethics, Wellness, Simulation, Jeopardy, QI, High-Value Cost-Conscious Care
Our traditional didactics are led by experts in ambulatory medicine, hospital medicine, and all of the medicine sub-specialties.
During the case report, residents will be led through a case with a faculty member. In a large group format, residents are taught key clinical reasoning skills and critical thinking, in addition to building knowledge about disease states.
Sample Half-day Schedule
| Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 |
| Introduction to Sleep Medicine | Case Report | Practice Series – Billing For Internists 101 |
| Ethics of Clinical Decision Making | Case Report | Research Series – Designing and presenting a poster |
| Lung Cancer | Case Report | CBT for Insomnia |
| Bronchiectasis | MICU Case Report | Introduction to Point of Care Ultrasound |
| HIV | Case Report | Lung Ultrasound |
| Adult Immunizations | Case Report | Research Series – Data Management |
| Geriatrics: The Beer’s Criteria | MICU Case Report | Lunch with the Dean |
| Introduction to Interstitial Lung Disease | Case Report | Cardiac Ultrasound |
| Syncope | Case Report | Board Review |
| Antiplatelet Therapy | Case Report | Research Series – Introduction to the IRB process |
| Acute Pancreatitis | Case Report | Finance Series – Financial Planning |
| Practice Series – Talking the Talk and Powerpoint Essentials | AKI | Board Review |
| Geriatrics | Case Report | Journal Club |
| Geriatrics | ECMO: Overview and Indications | Board Review |
| Critical Care Series – Basic Ventilator Management | MICU Case Report | Journal Club |
| Half-day Feedback | Case Report | Journal Club |
| Work-up and Management of Seizures | Case Report | Board Review |
| Journal Club | Case Report | Neuroradiology |
| Critical Care Series – Types of Shock: Fluid Status and Vasopressors | MICU Case Report | Journal Club |
| Research Series – Reference Managers by UCSF Librarians | Team Building Activities | Practice Series – Billing For Internists 201 |
| Endocrine Topics | Research Series – Overview of the publication process | Journal Club |
| Research Series – Scholarship and research | MSK Series – Shoulder Joint: Common pathology, exam and joint injections | Journal Club |
| Critical Care Series – Brain Death Exam | MICU Case Report | Board Review |
| Platelet Disorders | Case Report | Finance Series – Financial Wellness |
| DOACS: Indications, risks and reversal Agents | Board Review | Journal Club |
| Heart Failure Management | Case Report | Research Series – Overview of Meta-analysis, Systematic, narrative reviews |
| Critical Care Series – Advanced Heart Failure & Cardiogenic Shock | Critical Care Series – Metabolic causes of coma | ICU Delirium |
| Lipid management and prevention | ID Lecture | Finance Series – Liability Insurance |
| Approach to Arrhythmia | Wellness Session | Critical Care Series – Targeted Temperature Management |
| Defining Myocardial Infarction | Case Report | Board Review |
| MICU Case Report | Pulmonary Embolism: Risk Stratification and Therapeutic Options | Finance Series – Financial Advice and Words of Wisdom from Practicing Clinicians |
| Hypercalcemia, primary hyperparathyroidism, and male hypogonadism | Wellness Session | Rheumatology Topics |
| Approach to ‘Code stroke’ | MSK Series – Knee Joint: Common pathology, exam, and injection sites | Board Review |
| Breast Pathology and Exam for the PC | Wellness Session | Wellness Session |
| Lung Cancer | Acute Surgical Emergencies | Board Review |
| Multiple Myeloma | Adult Immunizations | Finance Series – Back Door Roth IRA |
| Lymphoma | Social Worker Resource – Depression/Anxiety/Panic attacks | Board Review |