Pathways

 

 

Pathways provide a way for residents to build on their individual interests and passions or as a way to explore new interests and passions. And the skills that residents learn can be applied all aspects of primary care and sub-specialty pediatrics.

The central feature of most Pathways is an expectation to complete coursework and a mentored project (for which we provide protected time). Where possible, our Pathways are aligned with the Pathways to Discovery Program in the UCSF School of Medicine, which allows us to take advantage of resources and course work in the School of Medicine.

Residents apply to Global Health Sciences, Clinical and Translational Science or Health Professions Education pathways about midway through the first year of training. The molecular medicine pathway is our physician scientist program. Residents are considered for this pathway during the recruiting process.

Key Highlights of Pathways

Global Health Science

  • Build skills necessary to effectively engage in international health work in developing countries.
  • Application in the winter of the first year (program occurs during 2nd and 3rd years).
  • 4-5 residents accepted each year.
  • Formal coursework through the School of Medicine's Pathways to Discovery Program during second year of training.
  • Completion of a mentored international health project is required.
  • Assistance provided to arrange international project. Formal relationships exist with a number of clinical sites in countries in Southeast Asian and Africa.
  • Additional training leading to a master's degree in global health is available (additional training time is required).
  • Cohort-based activities including seminars and mentoring.

Molecular Medicine Pathway

The Molecular Medicine Pathway within the Categorical Pediatrics Residency is designed for individuals who are interested in pursuing a career that emphasizes bench research in combination with the practice of medicine. The overarching goal of the program is to train the next generation of transformative laboratory-based physician-scientists. For more info please visit our page here.

Clinical and Translational Science Pathway

Welcome to the UCSF Pediatric Clinical and Translational Sciences Pathway!

Our mission is provide didactic training and an authentic, mentored experience in clinical and translational research for Pediatric residents interested in pursuit of an academic career as clinician-investigators. We provide support through your residency to foster your growth as a future scientist.

Clinical and Translational sciences research can be any type of research that involves patients and patient care.  We welcome anyone who is interested in clinical research, whether you have previous research experience or not.  Our goal is to help you explore your research interests in a supportive environment!

There are 4 primary components to the program:

  1. Designing Clinical Research; you will participate in an introductory course in research design that incorporates development of a research protocol, taught through the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and sponsored by the UCSF Clinical Translational Sciences Institute (https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/resident-research-training-program-rrtp). 
  2. We offer an optional STATA ‘bootcamp’ geared for the pediatric pathway residents during the DCR course. We will go over fundamentals in data management, basic descriptive statistics and consultation as needed for programming support.
  3. Completion of a mentored research project
  4. Participation in a longitudinal research seminar focused on various aspects of clinical-translational research methods

Each participant will have 4 weeks of protected time per year, over two to three years depending on time of entry to pathway, to complete research training and to work on the project. Whenever you start the CTS Pathway, two weeks of your protected research time will be used to take the 4-week Designing Clinical Research (DCR) course (the other 2 weeks will be a clinical elective where you can still participate in the course). The course is offered in-person in August and September. https://accelerate.ucsf.edu/training/resident#skills.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Megie Okumura.

Health Professional Education Pathway

  • Great choice for residents interested in exploring possible careers in medical education.
  • Integrated with the Health Professions Pathways to Discovery program in the School of Medicine.
  • Formal coursework in medical education, teaching, curricular design, assessment, etc.
  • Mentored scholarly project related to medical education.
  • Periodic works-in-progress seminars