FCM Grand Rounds creates a space for UCSF Family & Community Medicine clinicians, researchers, educators, and academic and community partners to learn together about the forces shaping primary care and community health. Through conversations grounded in equity and lived experience, sessions illuminate emerging challenges and share actionable strategies for improving care for the communities we serve.
Join us every first Friday of the month from 12-1 pm on Zoom.
To be added to our invitation list, e-mail [email protected]. See recordings of previous Grand Rounds on our YouTube playlist.
Upcoming 2026 Grand Rounds
June 5 - From Bot to Bedside: AI Patient Actors for Training in Clinical Reasoning and Communication Skills
Dr. Catherine Gathu, MBChB, MMed, Msc, FHEA, Assistant Professor and Consultant Family Physician Aga Khan University, Medical College, Nairobi
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming medical education - but how do we move from theory to meaningful bedside impact?
This session will introduce AI Patient Actors as an innovative, scalable approach to training clinical reasoning and communication skills, including their application across undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in the U.S. and East Africa. It will then highlight how AI-powered simulated patients support diagnostic reasoning, structured communication and personalized formative feedback within safe, accessible learning environments.
Finally, it will examine key considerations for implementation, including bias, realism and ethical use and explore the importance of cultural adaptation through locally relevant cases, language and context as well as the role of AI patient actors alongside traditional standardized patients in preparing a future-ready health workforce.
8/7 – Sondos Al Sad, MD
Menopause Connection
10/2 – Ming Tai-Seale, PhD, MPH
EHR, Primary Care, AI
11/6 – Sandeep P. Kishore, MD, PhD
Blood Pressure Control – UC Way on HTN
12/4 – Kristen Marchi, MPH, and the UCSF Center for Health Equity
California Maternal and Infant Health