Program Overview and Highlights

Tracks:

1. General Academic Hospital Medicine (1 year)
2. Business Administration (2 years) with optional executive MBA (separate application UCSD Rady School of Management required)

Medical Education

• Opportunity to work with medical students and residents in various learning environments, enhance techniques for feedback delivery, effective bedside rounding, and small and large group teaching
• Training through Stanford Faculty Development Series, Academic Hospitalist Academy, UCSD FACE (Faculty and Fellows as Clinician Educators) UCSD and peer to peer feedback
• Longitudinal asynchronous didactic curriculum on high yield topics

Scholarship and Quality Improvement

• Strengthen skills in clinical research techniques and data analysis through select courses in the UCSD CREST program
• Design and lead quality improvement projects of clinical relevance, with requirement to produce work at local/national conference by the end of fellowship

Business Administration

• Option to apply and if accepted, complete an executive MBA degree via UCSD Rady School of Management (extends duration of fellowship to two years) with funding provided by the division

Leadership

• Participate in BEAM (Business and Entrepreneurship Acumen in Medicine) course offered by UCSD and Rady School of Management
• Join operational committees at the department and hospital level for early leadership skills/exposure

• Improve the ability to understand and align priorities of quality and safety initiatives with those of the institution

Mentorship

• Structured quarterly mentorship meetings with faculty advisor to review and ensure effective implementation of individualized learning plans
• Opportunity to be a mentor to medical students and residents
• Monthly meetings with scholarly project mentor, academic mentor, and early career hospitalist mentor
• Networking with key faculty ad hoc to provide additional career guidance

Clinical Work

• 0.5 clinical FTE with approximately 8 weeks as an inpatient ward attending, including trainee supervision (minimum 4 weeks). Small mix of admitting and night shifts (flexible schedule allowed) at UCSD Hillcrest and UCSD Jacobs Medical Center
• Opportunity for elective rotations in palliative care, oncology, transplant and cystic fibrosis
• POCUS training opportunity

Academic Hospital Medicine Flyer: education/fellowship/Academic Hospital Medicine Fellowship Flyer_.pdf