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Natividad Residents can take advantage of multiple opportunities for scholarly work.
Community Medicine Projects
Each resident conducts a community needs assessment and works on a Community Medicine Project addressing an identified community need, in partnership with a local community organization or the department of public health. Residents present their projects locally at the end of year 3 and may also present and regional or national conferences.
Quality Improvement Projects
Second year residents lead year-long quality improvement projects focused on improving care and eliminating health disparities in the context of the continuity practice. All the resident teams present their work at Natividad’s annual Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Colloquium, along with hospital based teams sharing their QI efforts.
UCSF TIPR Research Training Program
Through our affiliation with UCSF, Natividad residents can participate in a self-paced online curriculum for residents called Training in Practice Based Research (TIPR). In addition to completing self-study modules on community based research design, residents work with a local mentor to design and carry out a scholarly project (which may overlap with their Community Medicine or Quality Improvement efforts).
UCSF Educational Alliance and Rodnick Colloquium
Each year the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine’s Educational Alliance of 12 residency programs sponsors the Rodnick Family Medicine Colloquium, a day-long conference in San Francisco with opportunities for residents and faculty to present their scholarly work in Family Medicine. Each year many Natividad residents and faculty present Quality Improvement and Community Medicine projects at the Colloquium.
https://fcm.ucsf.edu/ucsf-family-medicine-educational-alliance
Co-Authorship with faculty on publications
Natividad residents have the option to participate in mentored writing in primary care dermatology with Dr. Rebecca Small:
Rebecca Small, MD, MA, FAAFP
Dr. Small has been teaching Natividad residents dermatology and aesthetic procedures in their core rotations and electives since 2008. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Cambridge University, her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and completed her family medicine residency at Sutter Santa Rosa. Dr. Small has worked closely with Natividad family medicine residents, mentoring and supporting the development of their medical writing skills to co-author chapters in The Essential Guide to Primary Care Procedures and Dermatologic and Cosmetic Procedures in Office Practice. Dr. Small is deeply committed to community service, volunteering with the California Youth Delinquency Prevention Program, founding Skin Care Outreach, a nonprofit, to offer free scar and tattoo removal for survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking. Dr. Small is the Medical Director of her private practice, RSMD Medical Aesthetics, in Santa Cruz, CA where she has been providing non-surgical medical aesthetic care for over 20 years.
