Teaching and Learning
Teaching and Learning
- Dedicated teaching – see calendar for details
- Morning report schedules
- While in clinic, residents present evidence-based case discussions most days of the week, usually led by the clinic senior. This occurs from 8-8:30.
- While on inpatient services (NICU, PICU, Newborn, and Inpatient), residents gather together as a larger group. Each team takes turns presenting evidence-based case discussions or other relevant teachings, with guidance from on-service attendings. This occurs from 8-8:30 and occurs most days of the week.
- When at other hospitals, residents take part in that hospital’s morning learning opportunities.
- Weekly Friday morning teaching for all residents on downtown Fresno services – rotation of Journal Club, M&M Conference, Community Medicine, and Case Conference, each presented by senior residents with guidance from faculty mentors
- One afternoon per week is also spent dedicated to academic learning, including the primary care Yale curriculum, small group workshops, simulation training, didactic sessions from faculty, dedicated board review, monthly Collaborative Office Rounds with our Child Psychiatry team, community guest speakers, visiting faculty, faculty from other departments, and more.
- Morning report schedules
- Other important educational conferences:
- Monthly Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality Conference presented by Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Genetics, Neonatology, and other OB-GYN faculty
- Monthly joint Pediatrics/Emergency Medicine morning conference, presented by one senior from each department regarding a case relevant to both departments
- Monthly Pediatric Grand Rounds presented by a variety of faculty
- Other opportunities:
- Regular interdisciplinary team meetings for inpatient services with professionals from psychiatry, social work, registered dietitians, physical therapy, speech therapy, nursing, pharmacy, case management, and more
- Medical Spanish course from UCSF Fresno Resident Council
- Simulation training in the UCSF Fresno Simulation Lab – https://www.fresno.ucsf.edu/give/simulation/
- Mobile HeaL Unit – to improve access to healthcare for those unable to travel to the clinic for vaccines and screenings, working in conjunction with other healthcare professionals https://www.fresno.ucsf.edu/medical-student-programs/mobileheal/
- Health Equity Lab – collaboration with other departments to help address a wide variety of health inequities in the Central Valley
- Teach for UCSF Fresno – Enhance teaching skills through a variety of courses and tracks; opportunity to obtain the Teach for UCSF Certificate; particularly useful for those interested in fellowships, academic medicine, or simply improving their skills https://meded.ucsf.edu/faculty-educators/faculty-development/teach-ucsf-certificate-program
- Intern Boot Camp – https://www.fresno.ucsf.edu/orientation-portal/bootcamp/
- UCSF Fresno Resident Council
