Biography
Patricia S. O’Sullivan is a Professor of Medicine and Surgery and Director, Research and Development in Medical Education, at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. She holds the Endowed Chair in Surgical Education. At UCSF she co-directs the Teaching Scholars Program and oversees the advanced degree programs in health professions education as well as leads efforts in facilitating educational research. Her educational research studies have collaborators from medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and health related professions. The UCSF faculty development program that she led received the international ASPIRE for Excellence Award. Dr. O’Sullivan has led the Research in Medical Education Section of the AAMC, the RIME Program Planning Committee and the Division for Professions Education of the American Educational Research Association. She is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and recipient of the Merrill Flair Award from the GEA, of the Outstanding Career Achievements in Medical Education from the Society of General Internal Medicine and the UCSF Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award. In 2022 she received the Harmen Tiddens Medal from University Medical Center Utrecht The Netherland.
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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University of California | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training | 2017 | |
Rosemont College | AB | Chemistry | 5/70 |
University of Houston | EdD | Education | 12/78 |
University of Pennsylvania | MS | Chemistry | 12/71 |
Publications
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 109
- Avoiding common pitfalls in mixed methods research?| | PubMed
- Who should proof my paper?| | PubMed
- What Do Medical Students Do and Want When Caring for "Difficult Patients"?| | PubMed
- Is Robotic Surgery Highlighting Critical Gaps in Resident Training?| | PubMed
- Microanalysis of video from a robotic surgical procedure: implications for observational learning in the robotic environment.| | PubMed
- What Makes "Difficult Patients" Difficult for Medical Students?| | PubMed
- Developing End-of-Training Entrustable Professional Activities for Psychiatry: Results and Methodological Lessons.| | PubMed
- Evidence for the Validity of the Psychopharmacotherapy-Structured Clinical Observation Tool: Results of a Factor and Time Series Analysis.| | PubMed
- Translating Theory Into Practice: Implementing a Program of Assessment.| | PubMed
- Using Technological Advances to Improve Surgery Curriculum: Experience With a Mobile Application.| | PubMed
- Performance Assessment of Pharmacotherapy: Results from a Content Validity Survey of the Psychopharmacotherapy-Structured Clinical Observation (P-SCO) Tool.| | PubMed
- Current robotic curricula for surgery residents: A need for additional cognitive and psychomotor focus.| | PubMed
- Learner, Patient, and Supervisor Features Are Associated With Different Types of Cognitive Load During Procedural Skills Training: Implications for Teaching and Instructional Design.| | PubMed
- Technical skill improvement with surgical preparatory courses: What advantages are reflected in residency?| | PubMed
- Burnout and Stress Among US Surgery Residents: Psychological Distress and Resilience.| | PubMed
- Developing and rewarding teachers as educators and scholars: remarkable progress and daunting challenges.| | PubMed
- A Sequential Implementation Model for Workforce Development: A Case Study of Medical Residency Training for Substance Use Concerns.| | PubMed
- Systems-Oriented Workplace Learning Experiences for Early Learners: Three Models.| | PubMed
- Excellence in PhD dissertations in health professions education: Toward standards and expectations.| | PubMed
- Mixed Methods in Health Professions Education Scholarship.| | PubMed
- Health Systems Science Curricula in Undergraduate Medical Education: Identifying and Defining a Potential Curricular Framework.| | PubMed
- Performance of a cognitive load inventory during simulated handoffs: Evidence for validity.| | PubMed
- Faculty development efforts to promote screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) in an internal medicine faculty-resident practice.| | PubMed
- The Health Professions Education Pathway: Preparing Students, Residents, and Fellows to Become Future Educators.| | PubMed
- Early learners as health coaches for older adults preparing for surgery.| | PubMed
- Influence of learner knowledge and case complexity on handover accuracy and cognitive load: results from a simulation study.| | PubMed
- What's in a learning environment? Recognizing teachers' roles in shaping a learning environment to support competency.| | PubMed
- Sequencing learning experiences to engage different level learners in the workplace: An interview study with excellent clinical teachers.| | PubMed
- Educational and individual factors associated with positive change in and reaffirmation of medical students' intention to practice in underserved areas.| | PubMed
- Home Video Curriculum for Basic Surgical Skills| | UCSF Research Profile
- PIGS (Porcine Integrated General Surgery Simulation) Curriculum| | UCSF Research Profile
- Designing standardized patients assessment to measure SBIRT skill for residents: A literature review and case study| | UCSF Research Profile
- How to Succeed as a Medical Education Scholar: Identifying Your Individual Strategy and Creating a Roadmap For Scholarship| | UCSF Research Profile
- Implementing SBIRT in pediatrics: Results of a needs assessment| | UCSF Research Profile
- Using the AAMC Toolbox for Evaluating Educators: You be the Judge| | UCSF Research Profile
- Reflections on the identity development of medical educators| | UCSF Research Profile
- The UCSF Faculty Development Workshop on Critical Reflection in Medical Education: Training Educators to Teach and Provide Feedback on Learners' Reflections| | UCSF Research Profile
- UCSF LEAP (Learning from your Experiences as a Professional): Guidelines for Critical Reflection| | UCSF Research Profile
- Reframing research on faculty development.| | PubMed
- Enhancing Pharmacotherapy Competence with Performance Assessment: Development and Initial Testing of a Structured, Clinical Observation Tool| | UCSF Research Profile
- Three Standardized Patient Cases to Measure Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Skills in Primary Care Residents| | UCSF Research Profile
- Collaborative research in medical education: a discussion of theory and practice.| | PubMed
- Adapting Mental Workload Theory to Construct Balanced Caseloads in Outpatient Continuity Clinics: A Method to Improve Resident Education and Patient Safety| | UCSF Research Profile
- Reflective Ability Rubric and User Guide| | UCSF Research Profile
- Becoming an academic doctor: perceptions of scholarly careers.| | PubMed
- Joe Thornton: Teaching and Assessing Medical Students Chronic Disease Management Skills Utilizing the Chronic Care Model and a Standardized Patient| | UCSF Research Profile
- Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of the Transition from Paper and Pencil to Computer Assessment in the Medical Microscopic Anatomy Curriculum| | UCSF Research Profile
- Educational development program for residency program directors and coordinators.| | PubMed
- GME Showcase Portfolio Assessment| | UCSF Research Profile
- Medications and sleep in nursing home residents with dementia| | UCSF Research Profile
- Predictors of daytime sleep in nursing home residents with dementia| | UCSF Research Profile
- Development Program for Residency Program Directors and Coordinators| | UCSF Research Profile
- Facilitating curricular change: An institutional approach to aiding residency program directors' efforts with ACGME competencies| | UCSF Research Profile
- Portfolio assessment and self-directed learning| | UCSF Research Profile
- Recognizing prodromal symptoms in women at risk for coronary heart disease| | UCSF Research Profile
- Reliability of speech intelligibility ratings using the unified Parkinson's Disease rating scale| | UCSF Research Profile
- The Richards-Campbell Sleep Questionnaire: Measurement of sleep in critically ill patients| | UCSF Research Profile
- A comparison of scoring criteria for Clock Drawing Test| | UCSF Research Profile
- Contexts and impacts of disruptive behavior in institutionalized elders| | UCSF Research Profile
- Assessing disruptive behavior in older adults: The Disruptive Behavior Scale| | UCSF Research Profile
- Neuropsychological test performance of older and younger patients with alcohol dependence| | UCSF Research Profile
- Performance-based prevention/rehabilitation of falls in elderly veterans| | UCSF Research Profile
- Age and denial of alcoholism severity| | UCSF Research Profile
- Visual recognition training of older adults with speech spectrograms| | UCSF Research Profile
- A learner-centered journal club| | UCSF Research Profile
- Evaluating student performance in the experiential setting with confidence| | UCSF Research Profile
- Increasing the accuracy of observer ratings by enhancing cognitive processing skills| | UCSF Research Profile
- Recognizing volunteer practitioner-educators through intrinsic and extrinsic incentives| | UCSF Research Profile
- The hot fudge sundae road to tenure| | UCSF Research Profile
- An intrathecal fentanyl dose- response study in lower extremity revascularization procedures| | UCSF Research Profile
- On becoming a physician: perspectives of students in combined baccalaureate-M.D. degree programs| | UCSF Research Profile
- Research from the research utilization project environmental temperatures| UCSF Research Profile
- Utilization of medical services by drug abusers in detoxification| | UCSF Research Profile
- A fractured epidural needle: case report and study| | UCSF Research Profile
- Perceptions of pediatricians' helpfulness: A national study of mothers of young disabled children| | UCSF Research Profile
- The family environments of children with disabilities| | UCSF Research Profile
- Effects of continuing education: Pain assessment and documentation| | UCSF Research Profile
- Evaluation strategies selected by residents: the role of self-assessment, training level and sex| | UCSF Research Profile
- A national study of mother's perception of family focused intervention| | UCSF Research Profile
- Early intervention practices with families of children with handicaps| | UCSF Research Profile
- Involving practicing nurses in research| | UCSF Research Profile
- Maternal perceptions of early intervention services: A Scale for assessing family focused intervention| | UCSF Research Profile
- Sibling relationships in mildly mentally retarded and nonretarded children| | UCSF Research Profile
- The relationship of attitude, subjective norm, and behavioral intent to the documentation behavior of nurses| UCSF Research Profile
- Comparison of hydrostatic weighing and bioelectric impedance measurements in determining body composition pre- and postdehydration| | UCSF Research Profile
- Special education practices with young handicapped children| UCSF Research Profile
- The family practices of service providers for young handicapped children| | UCSF Research Profile
- Nursingconnections| | UCSF Research Profile
- Assessment of learned helplessness in retarded and nonretarded children: a methodological investigation| | UCSF Research Profile
- Changes in students' perceptions of the professional role| | UCSF Research Profile
- Effects of route of fluid administration on severity of side effects with postmetrizamidemyelogram| | UCSF Research Profile
- Learned helplessness in reflective and impulsive mentally retarded and nonretarded children| | UCSF Research Profile
- Transition from student to physical therapist: changes in perceptions of professional role and relationship between perceptions and job satisfaction| | UCSF Research Profile
- Comparative validity of two WAIS-R short forms with vocational rehabilitation clients| | UCSF Research Profile
- Mildly mentally retarded and nonretarded children's learned helplessness| UCSF Research Profile
- The effects of two sites of high frequency vibration on cutaneous pain threshold| | UCSF Research Profile
- A study to determine what variables predict institutionalization of elderly people| | UCSF Research Profile
- Detecting communication problems| | UCSF Research Profile
- From wife to widow: Role transition in the elderly| UCSF Research Profile
- Development of a cardiopulmonary resuscitation form.| | PubMed
- Analyzing communication patterns between an ED manager and staff members| | UCSF Research Profile
- An easy method to detect communication problems| UCSF Research Profile
- Vital sign documentation and primary nurses in the emergency department| | UCSF Research Profile
- A model for the effect of an inservice program on junior high school student science achievement| | UCSF Research Profile
- The National Teacher Examination: Can it Predict Classroom Performance| UCSF Research Profile
- MCT: An alternative in high school chemistry| | UCSF Research Profile
- A semiempirical theory of diamagnetic susceptibilities with particular emphasis on oxygen containing molecules| UCSF Research Profile
- Calculation of bond angles in five-membered conjugated ring systems| | UCSF Research Profile
- On the structure of cyclopentadiene| | UCSF Research Profile