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education, in developing the OSLER
platform.
“In planning the OSLER program,
we examined student data with an eye
to problems we’re trying to resolve,
outcomes we want to achieve, and the most
effective means to attain the goals that we
identified,” Arnold explained. She and her
colleagues regard OSLER not merely as a
student services function, but they also see
it as a faculty resource.
“Faculty members often tell us, ‘I’m
an expert in course content, but I don’t
know how to help students who are having
trouble absorbing the material.’ We can
work in partnership with the faculty by
helping students learn,” said Arnold, who
previously spent a dozen years as a medical
education specialist with the University of
Arizona, where she obtained her doctoral
degree in education. “OSLER staff members
understand how people learn and how
they develop effective skills, strategies and
approaches. Our vision is to function as
partners with the faculty to enhance and
support student learning.”
The OSLER program has bolstered
the school’s learning support for the
USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK exams in the
licensure process. OSLER also conducts
workshops to guide students through the
first-year block content, and even helps
students before they begin their first year,
through a summer pre-matriculation
program.
“OSLER offers consistent, one-onone and small-group learning support
throughout the blocks of courses that
students take. We work with students
on study schedules and study plans for
their shelf exams and their clinical years,
and we’ve been able to expand and
add a new depth to previously existing
learning resource programs,” Arnold said.
Individual student support services include
coaching in time management, preparation
of a CV and personal statement, and
learning resources.
“As students apply for residency
programs, they find that institutions require
a CV as part of the application packet.
We’re here to help them start to build that
professional artifact,” Arnold said.
Faculty Development Office
Sherman Building, Suite 3900
UC Davis Health System
2315 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95817
With its complement of curricular and
student services, OSLER is a component
of the Office of Medical Education, and
reports through the Office of Student
Affairs. Within OSLER’s offices on the
fourth floor of the Medical Education
Building, Moses and Arnold primarily
focus on learning skills and one-on-one
student support. Peoples, who coordinates
the tutoring program, oversees student
tutors and also works with students
who have learning or other disabilities.
She works closely with Lee Jones on
matters involving academic probation and
individual student progress.
Jones observes that in contrast to prior
services that focused primarily on students
encountering academic difficulty, OSLER is
more encompassing.
exams available for purchase from the
National Board of Medical Examiners,
Joanna has been instrumental in helping
faculty members blueprint those
exams and in giving them assistance in
matching content with questions. We
invite faculty and IORs to make good
use of her expertise in that process.”
OSLER personnel also have begun
working collaboratively with the Faculty
Development Office.
“Joanna Arnold and Richard Moses
are preparing to conduct workshops for
faculty members,” said Cheryl Busman,
program manager in the Faculty
Development Office.
Jones observes that OSLER
complements the increasing diversity of
medical school enrollees.
“Services to a diverse class should
include
not only financial aid and
“OSLER staff members
student wellness, but also educational
understand how people
services,” Jones said. “When I
approached Claire Pomeroy [vice
learn and how they
chancellor for human health sciences
and dean of the School of Medicine],
develop effective skills,
Fred Meyers [executive associate dean]
strategies and approaches.
and Mark Servis about additional
staffing and space to accommodate
Our vision is to function as
the OSLER program, they were fully
partners with the faculty
supportive, as was Roy Rai, manager
of the Office of Medical Education. I
to enhance and support
had the luxury of being tasked to put it
together, but it was really driven by the
student learning.”
Office of Medical Education.”
Jones says he envisions expanded
— Joanna Arnold
integration of faculty members into the
OSLER program.
“Many faculty members have
“OSLER is proactive, in the sense
welcomed OSLER services with open
that it offers services to help all students
arms, ranging from their individual
to improve. So it’s there for everybody,
including high performers,” Jones said. He small-group sessions or lectures on
up through exam writing for an entire
points out that OSLER conducts services
for faculty members as well as for students. course. I envision interactions with
faculty members becoming more
“Joanna offers her experience in
assessment and evaluation to assist faculty seamless, and I see Joanna Arnold’s
members. She’s available to help instructors increasing involvement not only
with student learning, but also with
of record, course directors and clerkship
curriculum.”
directors write exam questions, to help
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determine remediation if someone is
struggling or has failed,” Jones said. “With about OSLER.
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enroll in one of the various workshops,
programs and events sponsored by the
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event details and to register, visit
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and encouraged to attend faculty
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Entering students in the School of
Medicine’s class of 2017 will arrive at
the close of July with the expectation of
learning to become doctors. They may
not realize that they first must learn
how to become medical students. To
prepare and sustain themselves through
courses, labs and clinical rotations
during the next four years, medical
students must learn how to make
optimal use of faculty lectures, refine
their study techniques, sharpen their
test preparation strategies, and cultivate
zeal for lifelong learning.
For years the School of Medicine
offered numerous disparate student
assistance programs through
the Academic Services unit and
independently through other offices.
During the past year, however, the
activities of many of those programs
have been consolidated and intensified
under the Office of Student Learning
and Educational Resources (OSLER),
an academic support unit intended to
help acclimate and support medical
students throughout their education
at UC Davis. The program’s acronym
serendipitously honors Canadian
physician and Johns Hopkins Hospital
co-founder William Osler (pronounced
OH-sler), regarded as the “father of
modern medicine.”
OSLER evolved from the former
Academic Services unit, which Gail
Peoples had staffed single-handedly.
The transition took place last August,
after Lee Jones, associate dean for
student affairs, recruited Joanna Arnold
as director of OSLER and Richard
Moses became a student affairs officer.
Jones and Arnold worked with Mark
Servis, senior associate dean for medical
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Program Manager, Faculty Development
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HAND SURGEON DENNIS SULLIVAN VOLUNTEERS
FOR DECADES BECAUSE ‘IT’S IMPORTANT TO ME’
Throughout the past 26 years, UC Davis
medical residents and fellows have
learned hand surgery techniques from
a highly skilled specialist whose career
encompasses 20 years as an orthopaedic
surgeon with the U.S. Army Medical
Corps, 11 years as an educator, and
two decades in hand surgery private
practice. He is Dennis Sullivan, who has
consistently volunteered his time for
UC Davis’ Hand, Upper Extremity and
Microvascular Service.
At UC Davis, Sullivan conducts a
clinic once or twice a month and teaches
anatomy for first-year medical students.
He also participates in the Lending a
Hand Task Force, which encourages
hand surgeons to teach in medical school
anatomy labs to introduce students to the
field of hand surgery.
The School of medicine presented
Sullivan with the 2013 Volunteer Clinical
Faculty (VCF) Award in recognition of his
contributions.
As humble as he is generous with his
time, Sullivan disdains self-congratulation.
He insists, “I do this volunteer work
because it’s important to me. It’s something
I like, and it’s not a virtue on my part.
I don’t think there’s anything altruistic
about my motives.”
In nominating Sullivan for the VCF
award, Robert Szabo and Tanya Johnson
offered high praise.
“In my 30 years of running the
Orthopaedic Hand Service at UC Davis,
Dr. Sullivan has been the only consistent
volunteer surgeon who has participated in
our program. He has been coming to UC
Davis since 1986. He covers hand clinics,
and provides services to my patients
while I am away from UC Davis,” wrote
Szabo, chief of hand, upper extremity
and microvascular surgery. Johnson,
nurse manager of Orthopaedic Outpatient
Services, added, “Dr. Sullivan is a kind,
BY EDWARD J. CALLAHAN
Jill Joseph
BRENT SEIFERT, J.D., GUIDING
ACADEMIC PERSONNEL OFFICE
Jennifer Li
Each edition of the Faculty Newsletter introduces several faculty colleagues who recently joined the UC Davis
Health System community. Watch for more new clinical and research staff members in the next issue.
at UC San Francisco in the early ’60s,
Sullivan faced the untenable prospect of
providing for his family on a $26 monthly
internship stipend at San Francisco
General Hospital. He decided instead to
serve an internship in the Army at $600
monthly, and was matched to Walter Reed
Army Medical Center in Washington,
D.C. His third son was born by the time
he was selected to serve a residency with
the Army training hospitals program,
and his fourth son was born before he
finished residency training.
After serving for three years as an
Army orthopaedic surgeon, he won
a position as a hand surgery fellow
at Walter Reed. Sullivan said he was
exposed to “every sort of skeletal trauma
imaginable” during the height of the
Dennis Sullivan
Vietnam War.
nurturing, empathetic provider. His
His teaching career began in 1975,
passion for healing shines when he’s taking when he became director of intern
care of our patients.”
training at Tripler Army Medical Center
Richard Marder, chief of sports
in Honolulu, subsequently serving there
medicine and acting chair of the
as chief of orthopaedics and hand surgery,
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery,
and orthopaedic residency director.
describes Sullivan as an “extremely
After retiring as a colonel, he took a
dedicated” associate clinical professor of
civilian position as an associate professor
orthopaedics. “As a former Army officer
of orthopaedic surgery at Saint Louis
and orthopaedic surgeon with a hand
University in Missouri. He relocated to
fellowship at Walter Reed Army Hospital,
Sacramento to accept a position as a
he brings a unique set of skills and
staff orthopaedic surgeon with Kaiser
perspective to our medical students and
Permanente Medical Center in 1985,
residents,” Marder said.
then began his affiliation with UC Davis.
Sullivan has extensive experience
Wishing to specialize in 1989, he joined
in treating muscle compression injuries
Hand Surgery Associates in Sacramento,
and severe burns, as well as damage to
where he saw his own patients until
bones, tendons, skin and blood vessels.
turning 70 years of age in 2008. He
He has replanted amputated fingers and
continues to assist in surgeries.
forearms, excised large tumors, repaired
He and his wife, Patricia, a nurse
severed nerves, and transferred tendons.
who worked with newborns requiring
He obtained much of his training as an
intensive care, have been married more
Army surgeon treating casualties during
than 50 years. Two of their four grown
the Vietnam War.
sons are engineers, one is a graphic artist,
Already married and the father of two
and one is a teacher.
sons while he attended medical school
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viewPOINT
Jill Joseph seeks to untangle
barriers to high-quality care
is certified by the American Board of
Ophthalmology.
Her research focuses on novel techniques
Before joining the Betty Irene School
in corneal transplantation, notably
of Nursing as a professor and associate
selective keratoplasty procedures such
dean for research, Jill G. Joseph, M.D.,
Ph.D., M.P.H., was the founding principal as Descemet’s stripping automated
endothelial keratoplasty surgery and
investigator of an NIH-funded child
deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty
health disparities center and PI of the
surgery. In comparison with conventional
only clinical and translational sciences
award granted to a free-standing children’s methods, those techniques enable faster
visual rehabilitation and decreased
hospital. After spending much of the past
decade creating infrastructure for research long-term risks. She also has a research
interest in keratoprosthesis surgery for
and training, she intends to advance the
school of nursing’s vision for research that artificial cornea implantation in patients
with blinding corneal diseases that
will support system change.
cannot be treated by traditional corneal
Joseph had been an epidemiologist
transplantation procedures.
conducting research on HIV/AIDS at the
University of Michigan before enrolling
Other new colleagues
in medical school at age 45. At UC Davis,
n David Copenhaver, M.D., M.P.H.,
she hopes to forge strategic collaborations
is the director of cancer pain and an
with the Cancer Center, the CTSC, and the
assistant professor in the Department
Center for Healthcare Policy and Research
of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine’s
to identify ways to enable access to highDivision of Pain Medicine. Copenhaver,
quality care during an era of constrained
who is board-certified in both
funding.
anesthesiology and pain medicine by
the American Board of Anesthesiology,
Jennifer Li focusing on
applies intrathecal (spinal fluid) therapies
innovation in corneal
to treat patients experiencing cancertransplantation
associated pain, and regenerative stem
Jennifer Y. Li, M.D., a board-certified
cell therapies to ameliorate chronic pain.
assistant professor of ophthalmology,
He is interested in developing unique
specializes in medical and surgical
health system approaches to more
management of corneal and external
comprehensive and integrated care for
diseases and in refractive surgery,
cancer patients suffering with pain.
including LASIK and PRK surgeries. She
also performs corneal transplantations,
including newer lamellar and endothelial
keratoplasty procedures, keratoprosthesis
surgery, and complex cataract and anterior
segment reconstruction surgeries. She
2
n
Michael T. Corwin, M.D., a boardcertified assistant professor of radiology
with expertise in abdominal imaging, is
director of body MRI. He has expertise
in hepatobiliary MRI with novel contrast
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Edward J. Callahan
agents, and he is researching use of
hepatobiliary MRI contrast agents in
diagnosing disorders, including acute
cholecystitis and dysfunction affecting
the sphincter of Oddi, which controls
flow of bile and pancreatic juice into
the small intestine. So-called functional
MRI can yield information about
the biliary tract, without the use of
ionizing radiation.
n
n
We’ve been incredibly fortunate to attract
Brent J. Seifert as the new manager of the
Academic Personnel Office. He is ideally
suited to the position, with a remarkable
complement of relevant expertise,
problem-solving abilities, and experience
in finding common ground.
Brent, who moved into his new role
in early March, attended UC Davis as an
undergraduate. He obtained a J.D. degree
Anatomic pathologist Kristin
Alexis Olson, M.D., is an assistant
clinical professor of pathology and
laboratory medicine with expertise
in gastrointestinal and hepatic
surgical pathology and an interest in
pathology informatics. Olson, who
is board-certified in anatomic and
clinical pathology by the American
Board of Pathology, conducts research
investigating innovations in medical
education; appendiceal mucinous
neoplasms; and clinicopathologic
features of inflammatory bowel disease.
Byung-Kwang Yoo, M.D, M.S.,
Ph.D., an associate professor of
public health sciences, has expertise
in health economics and health
policy. His principal research interests
include behavior models by which
patients choose preventive health care
(especially vaccination), healthy diet
and physical activity; health insurance,
notably, California regulation of health
insurance benefits; and prediction
of the health-care workforce supply
– particularly the factors influencing
nurses and other allied health
professions to enter and exit their jobs.
Brent J. Seifert, J.D.
from John F. Kennedy University after
working in human resources for several
years, primarily in health care. When he
passed the California bar exam, he became
a labor law attorney with a Sacramento
law firm, where he gained three years of
litigation experience. But he told me that
he entered law practice with the longterm goal of returning to a health-care
environment in which he could apply his
knowledge of litigation and interpretation
of regulations in beneficial ways.
3
He made good on that goal in
2009, when he joined the UC Davis
Health System’s Department of Human
Resources. His expertise in elucidating
university policies, state and federal
regulations, and case law pertaining to
employment practices, is impressive.
Brent told me that he philosophically
views his new role as a means to lend
support not only to the health system’s
administration, but also to teaching
faculty, clinicians and technicians in
ways that ultimately will complement
high-quality patient care. Health care is
imbued in his household. Brent’s wife,
Jennifer, also made a mid-career change,
building upon her experience as a
biochemist to become a nurse.
We can look to Brent to continually
seek ways to elevate the already high
standards of the Academic Personnel
Office, with assurances that faculty
members and department chairs have
unimpeded access to appropriate
services. He will guide the further
evolution of electronic data systems
that will strengthen the voice of faculty
members in the academic review
process and streamline the turnaround
of applications for sabbatical leaves and
other academic personnel actions.
The office will remain an important
and accessible resource for individual
faculty members. Brent will avail himself
to department chairs in analyzing
dilemmas that they encounter and
in helping them achieve creative and
equitable solutions. His office is in the
Sherman Building, and he invites faculty
members to take advantage of his “open-
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door” policy when seeking guidance or
clarification about policies and benefits.
Brent told me he is excited about
opportunities to participate in aspects
of faculty development and to help
identify training opportunities for faculty
members. He is a good listener who treats
people from divergent points of view with
equal measures of respect, empathy and
understanding. He also will lend employee
relations perspective in the health system’s
long-range strategic planning processes.
Under Brent’s leadership, the
Academic Personnel Office will assuredly
deliver high-quality service, and play
a conspicuous role in development of
new and innovative programs for faculty
recruitment, development and retention.
“Under Brent’s leadership,
the Academic Personnel
Office will assuredly deliver
high-quality service, and
play a conspicuous role
in development of
new and innovative
programs for faculty
recruitment, development
and retention.”
Edward J. Callahan, Ph.D., is the associate
dean for academic personnel and a professor
of family and community medicine.
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officeVISIT
facultyROUNDS
A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
HAND SURGEON DENNIS SULLIVAN VOLUNTEERS
FOR DECADES BECAUSE ‘IT’S IMPORTANT TO ME’
Throughout the past 26 years, UC Davis
medical residents and fellows have
learned hand surgery techniques from
a highly skilled specialist whose career
encompasses 20 years as an orthopaedic
surgeon with the U.S. Army Medical
Corps, 11 years as an educator, and
two decades in hand surgery private
practice. He is Dennis Sullivan, who has
consistently volunteered his time for
UC Davis’ Hand, Upper Extremity and
Microvascular Service.
At UC Davis, Sullivan conducts a
clinic once or twice a month and teaches
anatomy for first-year medical students.
He also participates in the Lending a
Hand Task Force, which encourages
hand surgeons to teach in medical school
anatomy labs to introduce students to the
field of hand surgery.
The School of medicine presented
Sullivan with the 2013 Volunteer Clinical
Faculty (VCF) Award in recognition of his
contributions.
As humble as he is generous with his
time, Sullivan disdains self-congratulation.
He insists, “I do this volunteer work
because it’s important to me. It’s something
I like, and it’s not a virtue on my part.
I don’t think there’s anything altruistic
about my motives.”
In nominating Sullivan for the VCF
award, Robert Szabo and Tanya Johnson
offered high praise.
“In my 30 years of running the
Orthopaedic Hand Service at UC Davis,
Dr. Sullivan has been the only consistent
volunteer surgeon who has participated in
our program. He has been coming to UC
Davis since 1986. He covers hand clinics,
and provides services to my patients
while I am away from UC Davis,” wrote
Szabo, chief of hand, upper extremity
and microvascular surgery. Johnson,
nurse manager of Orthopaedic Outpatient
Services, added, “Dr. Sullivan is a kind,
BY EDWARD J. CALLAHAN
Jill Joseph
BRENT SEIFERT, J.D., GUIDING
ACADEMIC PERSONNEL OFFICE
Jennifer Li
Each edition of the Faculty Newsletter introduces several faculty colleagues who recently joined the UC Davis
Health System community. Watch for more new clinical and research staff members in the next issue.
at UC San Francisco in the early ’60s,
Sullivan faced the untenable prospect of
providing for his family on a $26 monthly
internship stipend at San Francisco
General Hospital. He decided instead to
serve an internship in the Army at $600
monthly, and was matched to Walter Reed
Army Medical Center in Washington,
D.C. His third son was born by the time
he was selected to serve a residency with
the Army training hospitals program,
and his fourth son was born before he
finished residency training.
After serving for three years as an
Army orthopaedic surgeon, he won
a position as a hand surgery fellow
at Walter Reed. Sullivan said he was
exposed to “every sort of skeletal trauma
imaginable” during the height of the
Dennis Sullivan
Vietnam War.
nurturing, empathetic provider. His
His teaching career began in 1975,
passion for healing shines when he’s taking when he became director of intern
care of our patients.”
training at Tripler Army Medical Center
Richard Marder, chief of sports
in Honolulu, subsequently serving there
medicine and acting chair of the
as chief of orthopaedics and hand surgery,
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery,
and orthopaedic residency director.
describes Sullivan as an “extremely
After retiring as a colonel, he took a
dedicated” associate clinical professor of
civilian position as an associate professor
orthopaedics. “As a former Army officer
of orthopaedic surgery at Saint Louis
and orthopaedic surgeon with a hand
University in Missouri. He relocated to
fellowship at Walter Reed Army Hospital,
Sacramento to accept a position as a
he brings a unique set of skills and
staff orthopaedic surgeon with Kaiser
perspective to our medical students and
Permanente Medical Center in 1985,
residents,” Marder said.
then began his affiliation with UC Davis.
Sullivan has extensive experience
Wishing to specialize in 1989, he joined
in treating muscle compression injuries
Hand Surgery Associates in Sacramento,
and severe burns, as well as damage to
where he saw his own patients until
bones, tendons, skin and blood vessels.
turning 70 years of age in 2008. He
He has replanted amputated fingers and
continues to assist in surgeries.
forearms, excised large tumors, repaired
He and his wife, Patricia, a nurse
severed nerves, and transferred tendons.
who worked with newborns requiring
He obtained much of his training as an
intensive care, have been married more
Army surgeon treating casualties during
than 50 years. Two of their four grown
the Vietnam War.
sons are engineers, one is a graphic artist,
Already married and the father of two
and one is a teacher.
sons while he attended medical school
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viewPOINT
Jill Joseph seeks to untangle
barriers to high-quality care
is certified by the American Board of
Ophthalmology.
Her research focuses on novel techniques
Before joining the Betty Irene School
in corneal transplantation, notably
of Nursing as a professor and associate
selective keratoplasty procedures such
dean for research, Jill G. Joseph, M.D.,
Ph.D., M.P.H., was the founding principal as Descemet’s stripping automated
endothelial keratoplasty surgery and
investigator of an NIH-funded child
deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty
health disparities center and PI of the
surgery. In comparison with conventional
only clinical and translational sciences
award granted to a free-standing children’s methods, those techniques enable faster
visual rehabilitation and decreased
hospital. After spending much of the past
decade creating infrastructure for research long-term risks. She also has a research
interest in keratoprosthesis surgery for
and training, she intends to advance the
school of nursing’s vision for research that artificial cornea implantation in patients
with blinding corneal diseases that
will support system change.
cannot be treated by traditional corneal
Joseph had been an epidemiologist
transplantation procedures.
conducting research on HIV/AIDS at the
University of Michigan before enrolling
Other new colleagues
in medical school at age 45. At UC Davis,
n David Copenhaver, M.D., M.P.H.,
she hopes to forge strategic collaborations
is the director of cancer pain and an
with the Cancer Center, the CTSC, and the
assistant professor in the Department
Center for Healthcare Policy and Research
of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine’s
to identify ways to enable access to highDivision of Pain Medicine. Copenhaver,
quality care during an era of constrained
who is board-certified in both
funding.
anesthesiology and pain medicine by
the American Board of Anesthesiology,
Jennifer Li focusing on
applies intrathecal (spinal fluid) therapies
innovation in corneal
to treat patients experiencing cancertransplantation
associated pain, and regenerative stem
Jennifer Y. Li, M.D., a board-certified
cell therapies to ameliorate chronic pain.
assistant professor of ophthalmology,
He is interested in developing unique
specializes in medical and surgical
health system approaches to more
management of corneal and external
comprehensive and integrated care for
diseases and in refractive surgery,
cancer patients suffering with pain.
including LASIK and PRK surgeries. She
also performs corneal transplantations,
including newer lamellar and endothelial
keratoplasty procedures, keratoprosthesis
surgery, and complex cataract and anterior
segment reconstruction surgeries. She
2
n
Michael T. Corwin, M.D., a boardcertified assistant professor of radiology
with expertise in abdominal imaging, is
director of body MRI. He has expertise
in hepatobiliary MRI with novel contrast
facultyNEWSLETTER | Summer 2013 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
Edward J. Callahan
agents, and he is researching use of
hepatobiliary MRI contrast agents in
diagnosing disorders, including acute
cholecystitis and dysfunction affecting
the sphincter of Oddi, which controls
flow of bile and pancreatic juice into
the small intestine. So-called functional
MRI can yield information about
the biliary tract, without the use of
ionizing radiation.
n
n
We’ve been incredibly fortunate to attract
Brent J. Seifert as the new manager of the
Academic Personnel Office. He is ideally
suited to the position, with a remarkable
complement of relevant expertise,
problem-solving abilities, and experience
in finding common ground.
Brent, who moved into his new role
in early March, attended UC Davis as an
undergraduate. He obtained a J.D. degree
Anatomic pathologist Kristin
Alexis Olson, M.D., is an assistant
clinical professor of pathology and
laboratory medicine with expertise
in gastrointestinal and hepatic
surgical pathology and an interest in
pathology informatics. Olson, who
is board-certified in anatomic and
clinical pathology by the American
Board of Pathology, conducts research
investigating innovations in medical
education; appendiceal mucinous
neoplasms; and clinicopathologic
features of inflammatory bowel disease.
Byung-Kwang Yoo, M.D, M.S.,
Ph.D., an associate professor of
public health sciences, has expertise
in health economics and health
policy. His principal research interests
include behavior models by which
patients choose preventive health care
(especially vaccination), healthy diet
and physical activity; health insurance,
notably, California regulation of health
insurance benefits; and prediction
of the health-care workforce supply
– particularly the factors influencing
nurses and other allied health
professions to enter and exit their jobs.
Brent J. Seifert, J.D.
from John F. Kennedy University after
working in human resources for several
years, primarily in health care. When he
passed the California bar exam, he became
a labor law attorney with a Sacramento
law firm, where he gained three years of
litigation experience. But he told me that
he entered law practice with the longterm goal of returning to a health-care
environment in which he could apply his
knowledge of litigation and interpretation
of regulations in beneficial ways.
3
He made good on that goal in
2009, when he joined the UC Davis
Health System’s Department of Human
Resources. His expertise in elucidating
university policies, state and federal
regulations, and case law pertaining to
employment practices, is impressive.
Brent told me that he philosophically
views his new role as a means to lend
support not only to the health system’s
administration, but also to teaching
faculty, clinicians and technicians in
ways that ultimately will complement
high-quality patient care. Health care is
imbued in his household. Brent’s wife,
Jennifer, also made a mid-career change,
building upon her experience as a
biochemist to become a nurse.
We can look to Brent to continually
seek ways to elevate the already high
standards of the Academic Personnel
Office, with assurances that faculty
members and department chairs have
unimpeded access to appropriate
services. He will guide the further
evolution of electronic data systems
that will strengthen the voice of faculty
members in the academic review
process and streamline the turnaround
of applications for sabbatical leaves and
other academic personnel actions.
The office will remain an important
and accessible resource for individual
faculty members. Brent will avail himself
to department chairs in analyzing
dilemmas that they encounter and
in helping them achieve creative and
equitable solutions. His office is in the
Sherman Building, and he invites faculty
members to take advantage of his “open-
facultyNEWSLETTER | Summer 2013 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
door” policy when seeking guidance or
clarification about policies and benefits.
Brent told me he is excited about
opportunities to participate in aspects
of faculty development and to help
identify training opportunities for faculty
members. He is a good listener who treats
people from divergent points of view with
equal measures of respect, empathy and
understanding. He also will lend employee
relations perspective in the health system’s
long-range strategic planning processes.
Under Brent’s leadership, the
Academic Personnel Office will assuredly
deliver high-quality service, and play
a conspicuous role in development of
new and innovative programs for faculty
recruitment, development and retention.
“Under Brent’s leadership,
the Academic Personnel
Office will assuredly deliver
high-quality service, and
play a conspicuous role
in development of
new and innovative
programs for faculty
recruitment, development
and retention.”
Edward J. Callahan, Ph.D., is the associate
dean for academic personnel and a professor
of family and community medicine.
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facultyROUNDS
A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
HAND SURGEON DENNIS SULLIVAN VOLUNTEERS
FOR DECADES BECAUSE ‘IT’S IMPORTANT TO ME’
Throughout the past 26 years, UC Davis
medical residents and fellows have
learned hand surgery techniques from
a highly skilled specialist whose career
encompasses 20 years as an orthopaedic
surgeon with the U.S. Army Medical
Corps, 11 years as an educator, and
two decades in hand surgery private
practice. He is Dennis Sullivan, who has
consistently volunteered his time for
UC Davis’ Hand, Upper Extremity and
Microvascular Service.
At UC Davis, Sullivan conducts a
clinic once or twice a month and teaches
anatomy for first-year medical students.
He also participates in the Lending a
Hand Task Force, which encourages
hand surgeons to teach in medical school
anatomy labs to introduce students to the
field of hand surgery.
The School of medicine presented
Sullivan with the 2013 Volunteer Clinical
Faculty (VCF) Award in recognition of his
contributions.
As humble as he is generous with his
time, Sullivan disdains self-congratulation.
He insists, “I do this volunteer work
because it’s important to me. It’s something
I like, and it’s not a virtue on my part.
I don’t think there’s anything altruistic
about my motives.”
In nominating Sullivan for the VCF
award, Robert Szabo and Tanya Johnson
offered high praise.
“In my 30 years of running the
Orthopaedic Hand Service at UC Davis,
Dr. Sullivan has been the only consistent
volunteer surgeon who has participated in
our program. He has been coming to UC
Davis since 1986. He covers hand clinics,
and provides services to my patients
while I am away from UC Davis,” wrote
Szabo, chief of hand, upper extremity
and microvascular surgery. Johnson,
nurse manager of Orthopaedic Outpatient
Services, added, “Dr. Sullivan is a kind,
BY EDWARD J. CALLAHAN
Jill Joseph
BRENT SEIFERT, J.D., GUIDING
ACADEMIC PERSONNEL OFFICE
Jennifer Li
Each edition of the Faculty Newsletter introduces several faculty colleagues who recently joined the UC Davis
Health System community. Watch for more new clinical and research staff members in the next issue.
at UC San Francisco in the early ’60s,
Sullivan faced the untenable prospect of
providing for his family on a $26 monthly
internship stipend at San Francisco
General Hospital. He decided instead to
serve an internship in the Army at $600
monthly, and was matched to Walter Reed
Army Medical Center in Washington,
D.C. His third son was born by the time
he was selected to serve a residency with
the Army training hospitals program,
and his fourth son was born before he
finished residency training.
After serving for three years as an
Army orthopaedic surgeon, he won
a position as a hand surgery fellow
at Walter Reed. Sullivan said he was
exposed to “every sort of skeletal trauma
imaginable” during the height of the
Dennis Sullivan
Vietnam War.
nurturing, empathetic provider. His
His teaching career began in 1975,
passion for healing shines when he’s taking when he became director of intern
care of our patients.”
training at Tripler Army Medical Center
Richard Marder, chief of sports
in Honolulu, subsequently serving there
medicine and acting chair of the
as chief of orthopaedics and hand surgery,
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery,
and orthopaedic residency director.
describes Sullivan as an “extremely
After retiring as a colonel, he took a
dedicated” associate clinical professor of
civilian position as an associate professor
orthopaedics. “As a former Army officer
of orthopaedic surgery at Saint Louis
and orthopaedic surgeon with a hand
University in Missouri. He relocated to
fellowship at Walter Reed Army Hospital,
Sacramento to accept a position as a
he brings a unique set of skills and
staff orthopaedic surgeon with Kaiser
perspective to our medical students and
Permanente Medical Center in 1985,
residents,” Marder said.
then began his affiliation with UC Davis.
Sullivan has extensive experience
Wishing to specialize in 1989, he joined
in treating muscle compression injuries
Hand Surgery Associates in Sacramento,
and severe burns, as well as damage to
where he saw his own patients until
bones, tendons, skin and blood vessels.
turning 70 years of age in 2008. He
He has replanted amputated fingers and
continues to assist in surgeries.
forearms, excised large tumors, repaired
He and his wife, Patricia, a nurse
severed nerves, and transferred tendons.
who worked with newborns requiring
He obtained much of his training as an
intensive care, have been married more
Army surgeon treating casualties during
than 50 years. Two of their four grown
the Vietnam War.
sons are engineers, one is a graphic artist,
Already married and the father of two
and one is a teacher.
sons while he attended medical school
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viewPOINT
Jill Joseph seeks to untangle
barriers to high-quality care
is certified by the American Board of
Ophthalmology.
Her research focuses on novel techniques
Before joining the Betty Irene School
in corneal transplantation, notably
of Nursing as a professor and associate
selective keratoplasty procedures such
dean for research, Jill G. Joseph, M.D.,
Ph.D., M.P.H., was the founding principal as Descemet’s stripping automated
endothelial keratoplasty surgery and
investigator of an NIH-funded child
deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty
health disparities center and PI of the
surgery. In comparison with conventional
only clinical and translational sciences
award granted to a free-standing children’s methods, those techniques enable faster
visual rehabilitation and decreased
hospital. After spending much of the past
decade creating infrastructure for research long-term risks. She also has a research
interest in keratoprosthesis surgery for
and training, she intends to advance the
school of nursing’s vision for research that artificial cornea implantation in patients
with blinding corneal diseases that
will support system change.
cannot be treated by traditional corneal
Joseph had been an epidemiologist
transplantation procedures.
conducting research on HIV/AIDS at the
University of Michigan before enrolling
Other new colleagues
in medical school at age 45. At UC Davis,
n David Copenhaver, M.D., M.P.H.,
she hopes to forge strategic collaborations
is the director of cancer pain and an
with the Cancer Center, the CTSC, and the
assistant professor in the Department
Center for Healthcare Policy and Research
of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine’s
to identify ways to enable access to highDivision of Pain Medicine. Copenhaver,
quality care during an era of constrained
who is board-certified in both
funding.
anesthesiology and pain medicine by
the American Board of Anesthesiology,
Jennifer Li focusing on
applies intrathecal (spinal fluid) therapies
innovation in corneal
to treat patients experiencing cancertransplantation
associated pain, and regenerative stem
Jennifer Y. Li, M.D., a board-certified
cell therapies to ameliorate chronic pain.
assistant professor of ophthalmology,
He is interested in developing unique
specializes in medical and surgical
health system approaches to more
management of corneal and external
comprehensive and integrated care for
diseases and in refractive surgery,
cancer patients suffering with pain.
including LASIK and PRK surgeries. She
also performs corneal transplantations,
including newer lamellar and endothelial
keratoplasty procedures, keratoprosthesis
surgery, and complex cataract and anterior
segment reconstruction surgeries. She
2
n
Michael T. Corwin, M.D., a boardcertified assistant professor of radiology
with expertise in abdominal imaging, is
director of body MRI. He has expertise
in hepatobiliary MRI with novel contrast
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Edward J. Callahan
agents, and he is researching use of
hepatobiliary MRI contrast agents in
diagnosing disorders, including acute
cholecystitis and dysfunction affecting
the sphincter of Oddi, which controls
flow of bile and pancreatic juice into
the small intestine. So-called functional
MRI can yield information about
the biliary tract, without the use of
ionizing radiation.
n
n
We’ve been incredibly fortunate to attract
Brent J. Seifert as the new manager of the
Academic Personnel Office. He is ideally
suited to the position, with a remarkable
complement of relevant expertise,
problem-solving abilities, and experience
in finding common ground.
Brent, who moved into his new role
in early March, attended UC Davis as an
undergraduate. He obtained a J.D. degree
Anatomic pathologist Kristin
Alexis Olson, M.D., is an assistant
clinical professor of pathology and
laboratory medicine with expertise
in gastrointestinal and hepatic
surgical pathology and an interest in
pathology informatics. Olson, who
is board-certified in anatomic and
clinical pathology by the American
Board of Pathology, conducts research
investigating innovations in medical
education; appendiceal mucinous
neoplasms; and clinicopathologic
features of inflammatory bowel disease.
Byung-Kwang Yoo, M.D, M.S.,
Ph.D., an associate professor of
public health sciences, has expertise
in health economics and health
policy. His principal research interests
include behavior models by which
patients choose preventive health care
(especially vaccination), healthy diet
and physical activity; health insurance,
notably, California regulation of health
insurance benefits; and prediction
of the health-care workforce supply
– particularly the factors influencing
nurses and other allied health
professions to enter and exit their jobs.
Brent J. Seifert, J.D.
from John F. Kennedy University after
working in human resources for several
years, primarily in health care. When he
passed the California bar exam, he became
a labor law attorney with a Sacramento
law firm, where he gained three years of
litigation experience. But he told me that
he entered law practice with the longterm goal of returning to a health-care
environment in which he could apply his
knowledge of litigation and interpretation
of regulations in beneficial ways.
3
He made good on that goal in
2009, when he joined the UC Davis
Health System’s Department of Human
Resources. His expertise in elucidating
university policies, state and federal
regulations, and case law pertaining to
employment practices, is impressive.
Brent told me that he philosophically
views his new role as a means to lend
support not only to the health system’s
administration, but also to teaching
faculty, clinicians and technicians in
ways that ultimately will complement
high-quality patient care. Health care is
imbued in his household. Brent’s wife,
Jennifer, also made a mid-career change,
building upon her experience as a
biochemist to become a nurse.
We can look to Brent to continually
seek ways to elevate the already high
standards of the Academic Personnel
Office, with assurances that faculty
members and department chairs have
unimpeded access to appropriate
services. He will guide the further
evolution of electronic data systems
that will strengthen the voice of faculty
members in the academic review
process and streamline the turnaround
of applications for sabbatical leaves and
other academic personnel actions.
The office will remain an important
and accessible resource for individual
faculty members. Brent will avail himself
to department chairs in analyzing
dilemmas that they encounter and
in helping them achieve creative and
equitable solutions. His office is in the
Sherman Building, and he invites faculty
members to take advantage of his “open-
facultyNEWSLETTER | Summer 2013 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
door” policy when seeking guidance or
clarification about policies and benefits.
Brent told me he is excited about
opportunities to participate in aspects
of faculty development and to help
identify training opportunities for faculty
members. He is a good listener who treats
people from divergent points of view with
equal measures of respect, empathy and
understanding. He also will lend employee
relations perspective in the health system’s
long-range strategic planning processes.
Under Brent’s leadership, the
Academic Personnel Office will assuredly
deliver high-quality service, and play
a conspicuous role in development of
new and innovative programs for faculty
recruitment, development and retention.
“Under Brent’s leadership,
the Academic Personnel
Office will assuredly deliver
high-quality service, and
play a conspicuous role
in development of
new and innovative
programs for faculty
recruitment, development
and retention.”
Edward J. Callahan, Ph.D., is the associate
dean for academic personnel and a professor
of family and community medicine.
4
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education, in developing the OSLER
platform.
“In planning the OSLER program,
we examined student data with an eye
to problems we’re trying to resolve,
outcomes we want to achieve, and the most
effective means to attain the goals that we
identified,” Arnold explained. She and her
colleagues regard OSLER not merely as a
student services function, but they also see
it as a faculty resource.
“Faculty members often tell us, ‘I’m
an expert in course content, but I don’t
know how to help students who are having
trouble absorbing the material.’ We can
work in partnership with the faculty by
helping students learn,” said Arnold, who
previously spent a dozen years as a medical
education specialist with the University of
Arizona, where she obtained her doctoral
degree in education. “OSLER staff members
understand how people learn and how
they develop effective skills, strategies and
approaches. Our vision is to function as
partners with the faculty to enhance and
support student learning.”
The OSLER program has bolstered
the school’s learning support for the
USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK exams in the
licensure process. OSLER also conducts
workshops to guide students through the
first-year block content, and even helps
students before they begin their first year,
through a summer pre-matriculation
program.
“OSLER offers consistent, one-onone and small-group learning support
throughout the blocks of courses that
students take. We work with students
on study schedules and study plans for
their shelf exams and their clinical years,
and we’ve been able to expand and
add a new depth to previously existing
learning resource programs,” Arnold said.
Individual student support services include
coaching in time management, preparation
of a CV and personal statement, and
learning resources.
“As students apply for residency
programs, they find that institutions require
a CV as part of the application packet.
We’re here to help them start to build that
professional artifact,” Arnold said.
Faculty Development Office
Sherman Building, Suite 3900
UC Davis Health System
2315 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95817
With its complement of curricular and
student services, OSLER is a component
of the Office of Medical Education, and
reports through the Office of Student
Affairs. Within OSLER’s offices on the
fourth floor of the Medical Education
Building, Moses and Arnold primarily
focus on learning skills and one-on-one
student support. Peoples, who coordinates
the tutoring program, oversees student
tutors and also works with students
who have learning or other disabilities.
She works closely with Lee Jones on
matters involving academic probation and
individual student progress.
Jones observes that in contrast to prior
services that focused primarily on students
encountering academic difficulty, OSLER is
more encompassing.
exams available for purchase from the
National Board of Medical Examiners,
Joanna has been instrumental in helping
faculty members blueprint those
exams and in giving them assistance in
matching content with questions. We
invite faculty and IORs to make good
use of her expertise in that process.”
OSLER personnel also have begun
working collaboratively with the Faculty
Development Office.
“Joanna Arnold and Richard Moses
are preparing to conduct workshops for
faculty members,” said Cheryl Busman,
program manager in the Faculty
Development Office.
Jones observes that OSLER
complements the increasing diversity of
medical school enrollees.
“Services to a diverse class should
include
not only financial aid and
“OSLER staff members
student wellness, but also educational
understand how people
services,” Jones said. “When I
approached Claire Pomeroy [vice
learn and how they
chancellor for human health sciences
and dean of the School of Medicine],
develop effective skills,
Fred Meyers [executive associate dean]
strategies and approaches.
and Mark Servis about additional
staffing and space to accommodate
Our vision is to function as
the OSLER program, they were fully
partners with the faculty
supportive, as was Roy Rai, manager
of the Office of Medical Education. I
to enhance and support
had the luxury of being tasked to put it
together, but it was really driven by the
student learning.”
Office of Medical Education.”
Jones says he envisions expanded
— Joanna Arnold
integration of faculty members into the
OSLER program.
“Many faculty members have
“OSLER is proactive, in the sense
welcomed OSLER services with open
that it offers services to help all students
arms, ranging from their individual
to improve. So it’s there for everybody,
including high performers,” Jones said. He small-group sessions or lectures on
up through exam writing for an entire
points out that OSLER conducts services
for faculty members as well as for students. course. I envision interactions with
faculty members becoming more
“Joanna offers her experience in
assessment and evaluation to assist faculty seamless, and I see Joanna Arnold’s
members. She’s available to help instructors increasing involvement not only
with student learning, but also with
of record, course directors and clerkship
curriculum.”
directors write exam questions, to help
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determine remediation if someone is
struggling or has failed,” Jones said. “With about OSLER.
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You are invited! We encourage you to
enroll in one of the various workshops,
programs and events sponsored by the
Faculty Development Office. For more
event details and to register, visit
www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev/
and click Enroll Online. (Event
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Faculty members are also welcome
and encouraged to attend faculty
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and coordinates programs that respond to the
professional and career development needs of
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Assistant Professors (ECLP)
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Associate Professors (MCLP)
Entering students in the School of
Medicine’s class of 2017 will arrive at
the close of July with the expectation of
learning to become doctors. They may
not realize that they first must learn
how to become medical students. To
prepare and sustain themselves through
courses, labs and clinical rotations
during the next four years, medical
students must learn how to make
optimal use of faculty lectures, refine
their study techniques, sharpen their
test preparation strategies, and cultivate
zeal for lifelong learning.
For years the School of Medicine
offered numerous disparate student
assistance programs through
the Academic Services unit and
independently through other offices.
During the past year, however, the
activities of many of those programs
have been consolidated and intensified
under the Office of Student Learning
and Educational Resources (OSLER),
an academic support unit intended to
help acclimate and support medical
students throughout their education
at UC Davis. The program’s acronym
serendipitously honors Canadian
physician and Johns Hopkins Hospital
co-founder William Osler (pronounced
OH-sler), regarded as the “father of
modern medicine.”
OSLER evolved from the former
Academic Services unit, which Gail
Peoples had staffed single-handedly.
The transition took place last August,
after Lee Jones, associate dean for
student affairs, recruited Joanna Arnold
as director of OSLER and Richard
Moses became a student affairs officer.
Jones and Arnold worked with Mark
Servis, senior associate dean for medical
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Seminar
Dec. 5: New Faculty Workshop – Tools
for Success
Brent Seifert, J.D.
Manager, Academic Personnel Office
Cheryl Busman
Program Manager, Faculty Development
cheryl.busman@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
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Office of Student Learning and Educational Resources is ‘proactive’
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Associate Dean for Academic Personnel
Acting Director, Faculty Development
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OSLE R WI DE NS FAC U LTY SE R VI C E S
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OSLER team members (from left) Joanna Arnold, Lee Jones, Gail Peoples and Richard Moses
welcome the participation of faculty members as well as students. (Photo by Emi Manning,
UC Davis Medical Illustration)
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education, in developing the OSLER
platform.
“In planning the OSLER program,
we examined student data with an eye
to problems we’re trying to resolve,
outcomes we want to achieve, and the most
effective means to attain the goals that we
identified,” Arnold explained. She and her
colleagues regard OSLER not merely as a
student services function, but they also see
it as a faculty resource.
“Faculty members often tell us, ‘I’m
an expert in course content, but I don’t
know how to help students who are having
trouble absorbing the material.’ We can
work in partnership with the faculty by
helping students learn,” said Arnold, who
previously spent a dozen years as a medical
education specialist with the University of
Arizona, where she obtained her doctoral
degree in education. “OSLER staff members
understand how people learn and how
they develop effective skills, strategies and
approaches. Our vision is to function as
partners with the faculty to enhance and
support student learning.”
The OSLER program has bolstered
the school’s learning support for the
USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK exams in the
licensure process. OSLER also conducts
workshops to guide students through the
first-year block content, and even helps
students before they begin their first year,
through a summer pre-matriculation
program.
“OSLER offers consistent, one-onone and small-group learning support
throughout the blocks of courses that
students take. We work with students
on study schedules and study plans for
their shelf exams and their clinical years,
and we’ve been able to expand and
add a new depth to previously existing
learning resource programs,” Arnold said.
Individual student support services include
coaching in time management, preparation
of a CV and personal statement, and
learning resources.
“As students apply for residency
programs, they find that institutions require
a CV as part of the application packet.
We’re here to help them start to build that
professional artifact,” Arnold said.
Faculty Development Office
Sherman Building, Suite 3900
UC Davis Health System
2315 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95817
With its complement of curricular and
student services, OSLER is a component
of the Office of Medical Education, and
reports through the Office of Student
Affairs. Within OSLER’s offices on the
fourth floor of the Medical Education
Building, Moses and Arnold primarily
focus on learning skills and one-on-one
student support. Peoples, who coordinates
the tutoring program, oversees student
tutors and also works with students
who have learning or other disabilities.
She works closely with Lee Jones on
matters involving academic probation and
individual student progress.
Jones observes that in contrast to prior
services that focused primarily on students
encountering academic difficulty, OSLER is
more encompassing.
exams available for purchase from the
National Board of Medical Examiners,
Joanna has been instrumental in helping
faculty members blueprint those
exams and in giving them assistance in
matching content with questions. We
invite faculty and IORs to make good
use of her expertise in that process.”
OSLER personnel also have begun
working collaboratively with the Faculty
Development Office.
“Joanna Arnold and Richard Moses
are preparing to conduct workshops for
faculty members,” said Cheryl Busman,
program manager in the Faculty
Development Office.
Jones observes that OSLER
complements the increasing diversity of
medical school enrollees.
“Services to a diverse class should
include
not only financial aid and
“OSLER staff members
student wellness, but also educational
understand how people
services,” Jones said. “When I
approached Claire Pomeroy [vice
learn and how they
chancellor for human health sciences
and dean of the School of Medicine],
develop effective skills,
Fred Meyers [executive associate dean]
strategies and approaches.
and Mark Servis about additional
staffing and space to accommodate
Our vision is to function as
the OSLER program, they were fully
partners with the faculty
supportive, as was Roy Rai, manager
of the Office of Medical Education. I
to enhance and support
had the luxury of being tasked to put it
together, but it was really driven by the
student learning.”
Office of Medical Education.”
Jones says he envisions expanded
— Joanna Arnold
integration of faculty members into the
OSLER program.
“Many faculty members have
“OSLER is proactive, in the sense
welcomed OSLER services with open
that it offers services to help all students
arms, ranging from their individual
to improve. So it’s there for everybody,
including high performers,” Jones said. He small-group sessions or lectures on
up through exam writing for an entire
points out that OSLER conducts services
for faculty members as well as for students. course. I envision interactions with
faculty members becoming more
“Joanna offers her experience in
assessment and evaluation to assist faculty seamless, and I see Joanna Arnold’s
members. She’s available to help instructors increasing involvement not only
with student learning, but also with
of record, course directors and clerkship
curriculum.”
directors write exam questions, to help
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them write remediation, and to help them
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determine remediation if someone is
struggling or has failed,” Jones said. “With about OSLER.
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You are invited! We encourage you to
enroll in one of the various workshops,
programs and events sponsored by the
Faculty Development Office. For more
event details and to register, visit
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Faculty members are also welcome
and encouraged to attend faculty
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Personal Goal Setting for
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Faculty Welcome Event (WIMHS)
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Personal Goal Setting for
Associate Professors (MCLP)
Entering students in the School of
Medicine’s class of 2017 will arrive at
the close of July with the expectation of
learning to become doctors. They may
not realize that they first must learn
how to become medical students. To
prepare and sustain themselves through
courses, labs and clinical rotations
during the next four years, medical
students must learn how to make
optimal use of faculty lectures, refine
their study techniques, sharpen their
test preparation strategies, and cultivate
zeal for lifelong learning.
For years the School of Medicine
offered numerous disparate student
assistance programs through
the Academic Services unit and
independently through other offices.
During the past year, however, the
activities of many of those programs
have been consolidated and intensified
under the Office of Student Learning
and Educational Resources (OSLER),
an academic support unit intended to
help acclimate and support medical
students throughout their education
at UC Davis. The program’s acronym
serendipitously honors Canadian
physician and Johns Hopkins Hospital
co-founder William Osler (pronounced
OH-sler), regarded as the “father of
modern medicine.”
OSLER evolved from the former
Academic Services unit, which Gail
Peoples had staffed single-handedly.
The transition took place last August,
after Lee Jones, associate dean for
student affairs, recruited Joanna Arnold
as director of OSLER and Richard
Moses became a student affairs officer.
Jones and Arnold worked with Mark
Servis, senior associate dean for medical
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Oct. 3 and 10: Grantsmanship
Seminar
Dec. 5: New Faculty Workshop – Tools
for Success
Brent Seifert, J.D.
Manager, Academic Personnel Office
Cheryl Busman
Program Manager, Faculty Development
cheryl.busman@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Event co-sponsors
ECLP: Early Career Leadership Program
MCLP: Mid-Career Leadership Program
WIMHS: Women in Medicine and
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Office of Student Learning and Educational Resources is ‘proactive’
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Associate Dean for Academic Personnel
Acting Director, Faculty Development
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Mentoring Academy Module 2
Workshop
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OSLER team members (from left) Joanna Arnold, Lee Jones, Gail Peoples and Richard Moses
welcome the participation of faculty members as well as students. (Photo by Emi Manning,
UC Davis Medical Illustration)