Further training at UCSF is available through a variety of clinical and reseach fellowship training positions and the chief residency year. Two chief residents are selected for each of the three hospitals and spend full time at their respective hospitals. Chief residents engage in teaching, counseling, and patient care in addition to their administrative responsbilities. Each resident is expected to be actively involved in the various formal education programs, including Attending Rounds, Chief of Service Rounds, Clinicopathologic conferences, Journal Club, Morbidity and Mortality conferences and Medical Grand Rounds. An evaluation of each resident is submitted by faculty, students, and other housestaff upon completion of a rotation.
Evaluations are available for the residents to review.
Areas of evaluation include clinical competence, judgment, interpersonal relationship with patients, peers and allied health personnel, and teaching ability. Every resident's performance is reviewed three times a year by the Program Directors and the Committee on Housestaff Evaluation, with reinforcing or corrective feedback provided to the resident. The Department has an extensive mentoring program for housestaff. The Program Director is assisted in contacting and tracking categorical residents by a small number of faculty at each of the hospitals who have expressed a special interest in counselling this group of residents. Residents can take advantage of focused activities which bring together house staff and faculty who share common interests.