The Master Clinician Project

Ep. 1 - Mission Statement

Welcome to The Master Clinician Project. Here, we interview master clinicians in medicine to learn about their formative learning habits and clinical behaviors. This is our Mission Statement.

"What lessons do master clinicians have to teach the rest of us, in terms of how they learn, how their minds work, and how they became so good at what they do?"

Ep. 2 - Dr. Paul Nadler

Interview with Dr. Paul Nadler: Internist, UCSF Master Clinician, and Director of the UCSF Screening and Acute Care Clinic.

"If you find what you're doing fun, you're probably going to get good at it."

Ep. 3 - Dr. Richard Jacobs

Interview with Dr. Richard Jacobs: Infectious Disease physician, UCSF Master Clinician, and Professor Emeritus at the UCSF School of Medicine.

"The single best way to learn about a given disease... is to give a talk about it."

Ep. 4 - Dr. Nora Goldschlager

Interview with Dr. Nora Goldschlager: Cardiologist, Chief of Clinical Cardiology at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, UCSF Master Clinician, and Professor of Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine.

"You learn that people survive despite medicine, which is a great lesson for doctors to know."

Ep. 5 - An Inquiry into the Early Careers of Master Clinicians

A narrative review of our original qualitative research study of peer-nominated master clinicians at UCSF, which inspired this channel.

Ep. 6 - Dr. Ken Sack

Interview with Dr. Ken Sack: Rheumatologist, Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the UCSF School of Medicine, and UCSF Master Clinician.

"Most of what I do is for the patient... everything, is for the patient."

Ep. 7 - Dr. Denise Davis

Interview with Dr. Denise Davis: General Internist, Professor of Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine, and Associate Director of the Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

"I didn’t have any African American women mentors during medical school or internship. That was missed by me... having mentors that had shared salient identities and lived experiences… I am very encouraged and determined to continue our work at UCSF, in dismantling structural racism, structural sexism, structural xenophobia, structural linguicism.”

Ep. 8 - Dr. Monica Gandhi

Interview with Dr. Monica Gandhi: Infectious Disease physician, Professor of Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine, and Associate Chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

“When you are treating someone who did not mask or does not believe in social distancing or does not think that the coronavirus is real, you are to bring all of your compassion to that interaction. Our politics cannot get in the way of being true healers.”