What is the vision and philosophy of the UC San Diego Division of Hospital Medicine?
The UC San Diego Division of Hospital Medicine is an exciting program with enormous potential to effect positive change. The philosophy: Our program has three pillars which must all be strong to support excellence in our program. These pillars are: • Excellent care of the individual patient. • Effective teaching of residents, students, and each other. • Systems change to make the care of patients seen at the UCSD Medical Centers more safe, effective, patient centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. Our academic work should be linked to effective systems change whenever feasible. These three pillars must have a firm foundation of clinical skills, professionalism, ethics, evidence-based medicine skills, compassion, and interpersonal skills. The “nuts and bolts” of the program are designed to create an academic clinical environment with enough “down time” to recharge your creative batteries and to participate in curricular development, administration, systems improvement, and/or resear
