Department of Surgery Launches New Medical Student Portal for Surgical Clerkships
The Department of Surgery has launched a new medical student portal designed as a resource and comprehensive dashboard for medical students during their surgical clerkships. The program is led by Director Andre Campbell, M.D. and Associate Director Matthew Y.C. Lin, M.D. The site course coordinators are Heidi Crist and Wenia Lee.
The Department of Surgery Clerkship provides UCSF medical students with a solid, enduring surgical foundation, offering diverse training opportunities including lecture series, faculty-led case presentations, observed physical exams, informal Bedside Rounds, and both hands-on patient care and procedures. Students rotate through numerous locations including Moffitt-Long Hospital, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco Veterans Administration Hospital, Alameda County Medical Center, Mount Zion Hospital, Mission Bay Hospital, California Pacific Medical Center and Kaiser San Leandro.
The new Medical Student Portal website was officially unveiled during a recent Grand Rounds presentation, "The New Bridges Curriculum and the Future of Surgical Education", by Drs. Campbell, Lin and Jessica Gosnell, M.D.
The UCSF School of Medicine described the principles underlying the Bridges curriculum in a post on its website:
The new UCSF School of Medicine Bridges curriculum is considered the most innovative training currently offered at a medical school in the country. Immersed in clinical teams from the start, Bridges students will be trained to continuously improve care. Their understanding of the foundational sciences will be in sync with what they are learning in active clinical settings. They will be challenged to ask questions that advance not just their understanding of human health and disease but the very frontiers of science.
Basic scientists have complained for years that medical school focuses almost exclusively on concepts in the biomedical sciences that are “tried and true,” noted Catherine Lucey, MD, vice dean for education. Students may be exposed to scientific discovery if they work in a research laboratory, but medical school in general does not cover ongoing research.
“We set out with this new curriculum to ensure that every medical student develops an understanding not only of the solid building blocks of biomedical science as they are known today, but also the cutting-edge science occurring today that will lead to advances in the way they care for patients tomorrow,” said Lucey.
The implementation of the Bridges curriculum in the Department of Surgery, discussed during Grand Rounds, focuses on providing "early longitudinal immersion in clinical teams with a focus on continuously improving care delivery, and an inquiry-focused curriculum that emphasizes asking questions that push the frontiers of science and understanding of human health and disease".
Visit the Medical Student Portal
Watch Grand Rounds Lecture (Drs. Drs. Campbell, Lin and Gosnell
School of Medicine Launches New Curriculum to Train the Doctors of the Future
UCSF Grand Rounds Presentation on November 22, 2017 "The New Bridges Curriculum and the Future of Surgical Education" Pictured: UCSF Faculty Jessica Gosnell, M.D., Andre Campbell, M.D., Matthew Y.C. Lin, M.D. and Director of Web Development, Richard N. Barg, J.D., MBA