UCSF Department Of Medicine | Division of Geriatrics

Dr. Anna Chang has been a clinician-educator and clinician-administrator in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics and at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center since 2005.

Her passions in undergraduate medical education include clinical skills training in the pre-clinical years and clinical skills assessment and remediation. Anna received the 2007 division of geriatrics teacher of the year award and nomination for the 2008 UCSF Kaiser Award for excellence in teaching in the inpatient setting. She is the remediation coordinator for the clinical performance examination and director of foundations of patient care, the clinical skills course for first and second year medical students.

She was selected as a UCSF Teaching Scholar and Medical Education Research Fellow and was recipient of the 2009 UCSF Academy of Medical Educators Cooke Award for the scholarship of teaching & learning for outstanding medical education research in the area of predicting failure in the clinical performance examination.

Dr. Chang is proud of serving as a clinician leader in geriatric medicine and long term care in collaboration with a talented and committed interdisciplinary team at the SFVAMC Community Living Center. In recognition for her clinical leadership skills, Anna was awarded the 2008 Betty and James E. Birren Emerging Leadership Award by the California Council for Geriatrics and Gerontology.

Clinical Activities

Anna's clinical activities are based in the community living center and inpatient medicine wards at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She cares for veterans with post-acute, rehabilitation, psychiatric, long term care, and end-of-life needs. She is attending on the medicine ward teaching service. Anna is also a clinician on the inpatient hospice unit and palliative care consultation.

As medical director of a 108-bed hospital-based veterans affairs nursing home, Anna serves in the role of physician leader of a complex clinical program. She chairs and serves on interdisciplinary committees which examine systems, outcomes, policies, program development, and quality improvement.

Selected Grants:

2008 Academy of Medical Educators Curricular Innovations Grant
Developing an Identification Tool and Early Intervention Curriculum for Medical Students at Risk for Poor Clinical and Communication Skills

Selected Presentations:

2005 Society of General Internal Medicine
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors And Abnormal Bleeding: Is There An Association?
A. Chang; G.M. Harper; K.E. Covinsky.

2007 American Geriatric Society, Presidential Poster Session
Presenteeism: a Public Health Hazard? A Nursing Home's Experience with a Norovirus Outbreak
A. Chang; E. Widera; H.L. Chen.

Selected Publications:

Chou CL, Chang A, Hauer KE. Remediation workshop for medical students in
patient-doctor interaction skills. Med Education 2008 May;42(5):537.
Chang A, Chou CL, Hauer KE. Clinical Skills Remedial Training for Medical Students. Medical Education 2008 Oct;42(11):1118.
Chang A, Boscardin C, Chou CL, Loeser H, Hauer KE. Predicting Failing Performance on a Standardized Patient Clinical Performance Examination: The Importance of Communication and Professionalism Skills Deficits. Academic Medicine 2009, in press.