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UCSF Surgical Skills Center Surgical Education and Simulation Research Fellowship (education)
San Francisco, California
Two-year funded fellowship at the UCSF Surgical Skills Center. The fellow designs, runs and evaluates a surgical education or simulation curriculum, helps administer the center and teaches in simulation sessions with surgeon-educator mentors.
Length2 years
StartsJuly
ACS-AEI accredited fellowship programUCSF Surgical Skills Center accredited by the American College of Surgeons
What stands out
- Skills Center space of 5,730 sq ft with a da Vinci robot, laparoscopic training room, endoscopy, microsurgery and a 3-D printer for models
- Required instructor roles in ATLS, FLS/advanced simulation and ACS ultrasound courses
- Optional MA (Ed) through UC Berkeley or PhD in Health Professions Education (UCSF-Utrecht)
- Apply through
- Direct application
- Focus
- Surgical education and simulation research at an ACS-accredited education institute
- Eligibility
- Not statedUSMLE: not statedVisa: not stated
- Contact
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Training
- Structure
- 2 years: curriculum project, Skills Center administration (session evaluations, instructor recruitment, cloud-based reporting) and simulation teaching
- Research
- Pathway requires Health Professions Education (HPE) core and advanced courses, HPE and AEI Simulation Fellow certificates, and abstracts
- Hospital
- UCSF Surgical Skills Center (Embarcadero location), San Francisco
- Faculty
- Hueylan Chern, Shareef Syed, Adnan Alseidi, Arthur Hill, Edward Kim, Joseph Rapp
Requirements (1)
- Completion of at least two years of an MD or DO residency program