Background
The Teaching and Learning Center project resulted from several years of planning and collaboration to address critical space needs for expanding education programs and to fulfill new goals for telemedicine training in California. This process ultimately led to the realization of this multi-purpose facility that integrates the clinical skills, simulation and education facilities onto the second floor of the Parnassus Campus Library, optimizing the space into a state of the art education and teaching facility.
History
In 2005, the campus began exploring the feasibility of repurposing Parnassus Library space to serve new functions for the campus. The recommendations from this analysis supported the utilization of Library space for education and other programs consistent with the Library's mission.
Planning for the PRIME-US Telemedicine program began in 2006 when the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006 (Proposition 1D) made possible the construction of facilities and infrastructure necessary to support the expansion of the medical student enrollment and the telemedicine and related technologies required to extend patient care and clinical education to urban underserved populations both within San Francisco and throughout UCSF's service area.
Building on Partnerships
The Teaching and Learning Center is a signature project for education at UCSF and embodies the goals of the campus Strategic Plan for education, innovation and collaboration. It will enable the School of Medicine to train physicians to provide care to urban-underserved populations in California through a new program called PRIME-US. The telemedicine training facility will enable all health professional education programs to effectively use this rapidly growing technology to bring UCSF's specialty health care directly to our community of patients throughout the Bay Area and Central Valley without requiring travel to a large health care center. The center extends the Library's educational technology services to create a multi-purpose learning environment for the campus. The center will foster interprofessional teaching and learning opportunities at UCSF, building on the partnerships strengthened throughout the planning for the new education center.
The Team
Telemedicine and PRIME-US Education Facilities Oversight Committee
- Neal Cohen (Chair), MD, MPH, MS, School of Medicine, Vice Dean Academic Affairs
- Opinder Bawa, School of Medicine, Director, Information Services Unit
- Karen Butter, ML, University Librarian and Assistant Vice Chancellor
- Joseph I. Castro, Ph.D, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Academic Affairs
- Allan B. Chung, Senior Educational Facility Planner, Campus Planning
- Kevin Grumbach, MD, Professor & Chair for Family & Community Medicine/Chair, Executive Committee PRIME-US
- Helen Loeser, M.D., M.Sc, School of Medicine, Associate Dean for Curriculum
- Patti Mitchell, Senior Project Manager, Capital Projects and Facilities Management
- Kevin H. Souza, MS, School of Medicine, Assistant Dean for Medical Education
- Mike Toporkoff, Associate Director, Capital Projects and Facilities Management
- Elisabeth Wilson, MD, MPH, School of Medicine, Assistant Clinical Professor/Director of PRIME-US
- Gene Zanko, Director of Capital Planning, Campus Planning
Library - Education Space Coordinating Committee
- Karen Butter (co-chair), ML, University Librarian and Assistant Vice Chancellor
- Helen Loeser (co-chair), M.D., M.Sc, School of Medicine, Associate Dean for Curriculum
- Brian Alldredge, Pharm.D, School of Pharmacy, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
- Joseph I. Castro, Ph.D, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Academic Affairs
- Allan B. Chung, Senior Educational Facility Planner, Campus Planning
- Judy Martin Holland, Ph.D, MPA, RN, CS, FNP, School of Nursing, Associate Dean for Academic Programs
- Patti Mitchell, Senior Project Manager, Capital Projects and Facilities Management
- Dorothy Perry, RDH, Ph.D, School of Dentistry, Associate Dean for Education
- Gail Persily, MLIS, Library, Director for Education and Public Services
- Kevin H. Souza, MS, School of Medicine, Assistant Dean for Medical Education
- Lori Yamauchi, MCRP, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Campus Planning
- Gene Zanko, Director of Capital Planning, Campus Planning
Architect
Planning team experiments with a proposed floorplan for the new education center.