News & Events: Medical Students

The October 2017 Update of the UCSF Bridges Curriculum highlights a project of UCSF medical students Ammar Joudeh and Carolyn Rennels to reduce surgical site infections by distributing chlorhexidine wipes to patients before elective surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. The project is part of a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Microsystems Clerkship (CMC). Jennifer Kerns, MD, MS, MPH, assistant professor in obstetrics and gynecology at ZSFG, serves as coach.  Surgical site infections (SSI) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality associated with surgical procedures. [...]

Gabrielle LaBove, a 4th year medical student from Howard University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Haile T. Debas Diversity Fellowship. As part of her fellowship, she will be taking an elective course and doing a rotation in Plastic Surgery in September 2017.  The UCSF Department of Surgery established the Haile T. Debas Diversity Fellowship to foster its goal of increasing the number of underrepresented minority academic surgeons. The namesake of the award, Dr. Haile T. Debas, is Professor Emeritus of Surgery, a former Department of [...]