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News and Events
Annual ACF Awards Banquet and MeetingOctober 16, 2003
Successor for Dean Debas announced
June 23, 2003with Guest Speaker Stan Glantz Click here to see the invitation and fill out a response card  ACF Presentation to Dean's Search Committee This linked document, in PDF format, was presented on 10/10/02 to the search committee by a delegation from the ACF representing the interests of the clinical faculty. The delegation consisted of: Andrea C. Sello, MD ACF President, Department of Pediatrics Michael Drennan, MD ACF Councilor, Dept. of Family and Community Medicine Frederick Parris, MD ACF Councilor, Department of Psychiatry Read the letter from Andrea C.Sello, MD, to Chancellor Bishop (in PDF format). ACF Meets With Search Committee For Dean The Chancellor's Office asked the ACF to provide input to the Search Committee. Read more... ACF Bylaws Change Approved Membership criteria to be more inclusive and accurately reflect the true nature of the entire SOM Clinical Faculty. All Clinical Faculty with appointments in the School of Medicine eligible for ACF membership. Read more... Dialogues With Department Chairs Increase Communication And Interaction With ACF And Departments and help identify "Who are the Clinical Faculty?" Read More... OCBE (Office Of Community Based Education) Panel Present The New Integrated Curriculum which was launched in Sept 2001. Read more... New look, new logo for the ACF In Memorium: For Dr. Eugene Sterling Kilgore Jr. For Dr. Donald Palatucci, written by Dr. Donald Kitt 2003 Quarterly Meeting Minutes 
Stories ACF Meets With Search Committee For Dean The Chancellor's Office asked the ACF to provide input to the Search Committee, a 20 member committee comprised mostly of researchers, some finance and administrators, and few clinician researchers. President Sello and ACF Council members informed the search Committee about the size the and integral role of Clinical Faculty, Dean Debas' strong support and involvement with the Clinical Faculty, the singularly important role of the Dean in establishing and maintaining a productive Clinical Faculty, and the concern that there is no volunteer clinical faculty representation on the Search Committee. The ACF provided criteria regarding the Dean's successor, indicated it wants to help the Committee in their critical choice of a new Dean, and that it would like to have an active part in that process as the Dean is the Clinical Faculty's link to the University. Read the Presentation to the Search Committee.
ACF Bylaws Change Approved It had come to the attention of the council that the ACF membership criteria were not in alignment with SOM. This apparently has been a longstanding issue with the School of Medicine. The ACF bylaws restricted membership to those who have a license to practice medicine in California. The guidelines from the Dean's Office, (for appointments and promotions in the clinical professional series in the School of Medicine) clearly state that several types of individuals may be appointed as clinical faculty. "Most, but not all, will be physicians." Thus it was decided that this exclusionary criteria was no longer in keeping with the School or the current integrated approach to medicine, and that it should be eliminated. The practical effect is that PhD's and other non-MDs, some of whom have been teaching for years, will be eligible to join the ACF. This allows the ACF to be more inclusive and more accurately reflect the true nature of the entire SOM Clinical Faculty. Review the Bylaws (in PDF format) in their entirety.  Dialogues With Department Chairs Increase Communication And Interaction With ACF And Departments and help identify "Who are the Clinical Faculty?" Chairs of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Medicine discuss Clinical Faculty at ACF Administrative Council meetings. Volunteer clinical faculty more than twice the size of full time faculty in departments.   The volunteer Clinical Faculty is a large, elusive, diverse group, consisting of at least 2000 active practitioners, who teach and practice in a variety of clinical settings throughout a wide geographic distribution of offices and clinics, in both the private and public spheres, as well as at UC. Each department independently manages the clinical faculty. The ACF has been trying to promote communication and interactions among the departments and the clinical faculty. The "WEB" may be the most effective means to communicate and provide cohesiveness to the Clinical Faculty, who represent the largest faculty group, and are an integral and now essential part of the educational experience at UCSF. Read more about the Presentations by Department Chairs within the archives of the 2002 quarterly meetings minutes and Power Point presentations. The OCBE (Office of Community Based Education) was created by the Dean's Office to help coordinate the clinical faculty, an integral and essential part of the curriculum. The Dean's Office has funded a position for a Community Physician Consultant, who has been intimately involved in the programming planning. ACF member, Jane Phillips, MD, from the Dept of Pediatrics holds that position. The ACF has been collaborating with OCBE. Workshops on precepting have been developed by OCBE for clinical faculty and are available for CME. The new "Integrated" Curriculum, launched in September 2001, has an emphasis on early clinical experiences and longitudinal continuity, using the integrated "Bio/Psycho/Social" model approach to medicine. This is very labor intensive for the clinical faculty, as teaching is mostly 1:1 with students, or in small groups of 5 or 6, and thus requires a significant increase in the number of preceptors needed simultaneously. The "Essential Core Courses" are dependent upon the volunteer clinical faculty. For more information, read the minutes (in PDF format) from the September 2002 quarterly meeting.
New look, new logo for the ACF
In keeping with the move into the electronic era, it was necessary to create a logo and group identity that would be compatible with emails, websites, and all other forms of electronic communication. This is part of an overall strategy to provide the membership with effective communication that is easily recognized as official ACF materials. To effect that change, the ACF hired a design management and consulting group to coordinate the redesign efforts. The result was the two images shown above. The rectangular logo appears on all outgoing envelopes as well as on the website. The round seal of the ACF will appear on the membership cards as well as other graphic images that promote the ACF.
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