[The fellowship] is an amazing educational community-building and wellness-based program for all medical educators.
Angela Rodgers, MD
Family Medicine Physician and Core Faculty, Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency Program
UCSF Family Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship Class of 2022
Since 1990, the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine has offered a Faculty Development Fellowship Program for faculty in family medicine residency programs and departments in California. Many of our fellows now hold leadership positions throughout the state.
This one-year fellowship focuses on the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to be an effective faculty member.
In the setting of a supportive learning community, the fellowship curriculum includes:
- Teaching Skills
- Curriculum Design and Evaluation
- Leadership Skills
- Professional Development
- Scholarly Work
Fellows meet eight times for three-day in-person sessions held monthly in the San Francisco Bay Area from October through May.
Applications for 2024-25 may be submitted from now through Monday, May 13.
Our Mission
- To help faculty develop competencies as teachers, educators, scholars, and lifelong learners through self-reflection, inquiry, and experiential learning.
- To build a community of fellows who support, challenge, and collaborate with one another.
- To create a cadre of knowledgeable and skilled leaders who use their skills to promote primary care education and foster inclusive learning environments.
- To do this work collaboratively as a learning community, with a lens of equity, inclusion, and anti-racism
How to Apply
Applicants must be sponsored by their residency directors or program chairs. We accept up to 18 fellows annually. Priority will be given to faculty who currently hold teaching positions at a family medicine residency program or department. We also accept applications from other primary care specialties as space permits. We place priority on the recruitment of applicants who are underrepresented in medicine.
There is a tuition fee of $15,000 to cover costs of fellowship faculty, training materials, facility use, and other expenses. Inquiries may be emailed to [email protected]. We also offer faculty development intensive specific to your program.
Applications for 2024-25 may be submitted from now through Monday, May 6.
Apply by filling out the application survey linked below. Also required is one letter of recommendation from your residency director or program chair that may be emailed directly to Emily Lo at [email protected].
2024-25 Seminar Dates
All are Monday-Wednesday except November, which is Tues-Thurs, due to the Veterans Day holiday on Mon Nov. 11.
- October 7th-9th
- November 12th-14th* (note this session is Tues-Thurs)
- December 9th-11th
- January 6th-8th
- February 10th-12th
- March 10th-12th
- April 7th-9th
- May 12th-14th
Seminar location: The course will held at the Ralston White Retreat Center located at 2 El Capitan Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941. More information about this location may be found on their website at http://www.ralstonwhiteretreat.org/
Past Fellows Highly Recommend the Fellowship
Clinicians are taught to diagnose and to treat, they are not taught how to teach. There are specific frameworks, concepts, guidelines, and requirements that are essential for medical teachers to know in order to adequately prepare learners for functioning successfully in medical education.
Angela Rodgers, MD
Family Medicine Physician and Core Faculty, Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency Program
UCSF Family Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship Class of 2022
[The fellowship] really helped me counter a lot of the imposter phenomenon that I was feeling...It left me in a place where essentially by the time I finished the fellowship I really truly in my heart of hearts felt like I belong in academic medicine.
Liana Milanes, MD
Core Faculty, UCSF Fresno Dept. of Family Medicine
Fellowship Class of 2018
The fellowship offers us an opportunity to design the impact that we want to have not only on the residents and the medical students with whom we work but also bring that mindfulness to other faculty in our institutions...[It] not only helps us become better teachers but literally contributes to the evolution of medical teaching.
Linda Russell
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, John Muir Family Medicine Residency Program
UCSF Family Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship Class of 2018
I absolutely loved all of the faculty development fellowship but one of the things that was most unexpected for me was learning about the concept of growth versus fixed mindset...
It has transformed my concept of myself what I'm capable of and what I'm able to do as an educator as well as my approach to my learners and frankly my parenting.
Alison Bacon, MD
Faculty, Sutter Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program
UCSF Family Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship Class of 2020
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