Calvin Chou, MD

Education
2017 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
2003 - Faculty in Training Program, Academy of Communication in Healthcare
Residency, 06/1997 - Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
M.D., 05/1994 - Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Ph.D., 05/1992 - Microbiology, Columbia University
B.S., 05/1985 - Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
Honors and Awards
  • Class of 2021 Excellence in Teaching for Clinical Faculty Award, UCSF, 2021
  • Federal Employee of the Year (as part of the Disaster Response Mental Health Team), Federal Executive Board, San Francisco, 2020
  • Choice Critics Award, Medical Education (journal), 2020
  • Healthcare Communication Teaching Excellence Award, Academy of Communication in Healthcare, 2019
  • Lynn Payer Award, Academy of Communication in Healthcare, 2018
  • Academy Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, UCSF, 2011
  • Fellow, Academy of Communication in Healthcare, 2010
  • Class of 2010 Award for Outstanding Teaching, UCSF, 2010
  • Inducted to Alpha Omega Alpha, UCSF, 2010
  • Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Inpatient Setting, UCSF, 2008
  • Inducted to Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF, 2002
Websites
Publications

  1. Katz NT, Alpert AB, Aristizabal MP, McDaniels-Davidson C, Sacks BH, Sanft T, Chou CL, Martinez ME. Partnering With Patients and Caregivers in Cancer Care: Lessons From Experiences With Transgender, Hispanic, and Pediatric Populations. American Society of Clinical Oncology educational book. American Society of Clinical Oncology. Annual Meeting 2023. PMID: 37200592


  3. Chang AA, Siropaides CH, Chou CL. Improving Communication Skills: A Roadmap for Humanistic Health Care. The Medical clinics of North America 2022. PMID: 35725237


  4. Chou CL, Connor DM, Santhosh L. Emphasizing Empathy in Communicating About Uncertainty by Using a Dialogic Approach. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021. PMID: 34183477


  5. Davis DLF, Tran-Taylor D, Imbert E, Wong JO, Chou CL. Start the Way You Want to Finish: An Intensive Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Orientation Curriculum in Undergraduate Medical Education. Journal of medical education and curricular development 2021. PMID: 33796793


  6. Chou CL. How COVID-19 Disrupts-and Enhances-My Clinical Work. Journal of Patient Experience 2020. PMID: 32851132


  7. Zapata J, Chou C. Leadership & Professional Development: Make the Most of Your Oranges. Journal of hospital medicine 2020. PMID: 31869301


  8. Chou CL, Kalet A, Costa MJ, Cleland J, Winston K. Guidelines: The dos, don'ts and don't knows of remediation in medical education. Perspectives on medical education 2019. PMID: 31696439


  9. Davis DLF, Chou CL. The Bearable Lightness of Uncertainty. Journal of general internal medicine 2019. PMID: 31512186


  10. Santhosh L, Chou CL, Connor DM. Diagnostic uncertainty: from education to communication. Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) 2019. PMID: 30851157


  11. Wheeler DJ, Zapata J, Davis D, Chou C. Twelve tips for responding to microaggressions and overt discrimination: When the patient offends the learner. Medical teacher 2018. PMID: 30277121


  12. Ellaway RH, Chou CL, Kalet AL. Situating Remediation: Accommodating Success and Failure in Medical Education Systems. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2018. PMID: 28767496


  13. Kalet A, Chou CL, Ellaway RH. To fail is human: remediating remediation in medical education. Perspectives on medical education 2017. PMID: 29071550


  14. Chou CL, Teherani A. A Foundation for Vital Academic and Social Support in Clerkships: Learning Through Peer Continuity. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2017. PMID: 28353506


  15. Connor DM, Conlon PJ, O'Brien BC, Chou CL. Improving clerkship preparedness: a hospital medicine elective for pre-clerkship students. Medical education online 2017. PMID: 28395598


  17. Kalet A, Guerrasio J, Chou CL. Twelve tips for developing and maintaining a remediation program in medical education. Medical teacher 2016. PMID: 27049798


  18. Chou CL, Teherani A, Masters DE, Vener M, Wamsley M, Poncelet A. Workplace learning through peer groups in medical school clerkships. Medical education online 2014. PMID: 25427851


  19. Clinite KL, DeZee KJ, Durning SJ, Kogan JR, Blevins T, Chou CL, Diemer G, Dunne DW, Fagan MJ, Hartung PJ, Kazantsev SM, Mechaber HF, Paauw DS, Wong JG, Reddy ST. Lifestyle factors and primary care specialty selection: comparing 2012-2013 graduating and matriculating medical students' thoughts on specialty lifestyle. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2014. PMID: 25250748


  20. Mookherjee S, Hunt S, Chou CL. Twelve tips for teaching evidence-based physical examination. Medical teacher 2014. PMID: 25270026


  21. Chou CL, Hirschmann K, Fortin AH, Lichstein PR. The impact of a faculty learning community on professional and personal development: the facilitator training program of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2014. PMID: 24979175


  22. Branch WT, Chou CL, Farber NJ, Hatem D, Keenan C, Makoul G, Quinn M, Salazar W, Sillman J, Stuber M, Wilkerson L, Mathew G, Fost M. Faculty development to enhance humanistic teaching and role modeling: a collaborative study at eight institutions. Journal of general internal medicine 2014. PMID: 24947051


  23. Saba GW, Chou CL, Satterfield J, Teherani A, Hauer K, Poncelet A, Chen HC. Teaching patient-centered communication skills: a telephone follow-up curriculum for medical students. Medical education online 2014. PMID: 24767705


  24. Shunk R, Dulay M, Chou CL, Janson S, O'Brien BC. Huddle-coaching: a dynamic intervention for trainees and staff to support team-based care. Volume 89 of Issue 2. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2014. PMID: 24362383


  25. Kalet A, Chou CL (eds). Remediation in Medical Education: A Mid-Course Correction Remediation in Medical Education: A Mid-Course Correction 2014. PMID:


  26. Chou CL, Masters DE, Chang A, Kruidering M, Hauer KE. Effects of longitudinal small-group learning on delivery and receipt of communication skills feedback. Medical education 2013. PMID: 24117553


  27. Clinite KL, Reddy ST, Kazantsev SM, Kogan JR, Durning SJ, Blevins T, Chou CL, Diemer G, Dunne DW, Fagan MJ, Hartung PJ, Mechaber HF, Paauw DS, Wong JG, DeZee KJ. Primary care, the ROAD less traveled: what first-year medical students want in a specialty. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2013. PMID: 23969353


  28. Masters DE, O'Brien BC, Chou CL. The third-year medical student "grapevine": managing transitions between third-year clerkships using peer-to-peer handoffs. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2013. PMID: 23969370


  29. Mookherjee S, Pheatt L, Ranji SR, Chou CL. Physical examination education in graduate medical education--a systematic review of the literature. Journal of general internal medicine 2013. PMID: 23568186


  30. Chou CL, Promes SB, Souza KH, Topp KS, O'Sullivan PS. Twelve tips for facilitating successful teleconferences. Medical teacher 2012. PMID: 22449266


  31. Chou CL, Johnston CB, Singh B, Garber JD, Kaplan E, Lee K, Teherani A. A "safe space" for learning and reflection: one school's design for continuity with a peer group across clinical clerkships. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2011. PMID: 22030757


  33. Chang A, Chou CL, Teherani A, Hauer KE. Clinical skills-related learning goals of senior medical students after performance feedback. Medical education 2011. PMID: 21848715


  34. Lee CA, Chang A, Chou CL, Boscardin C, Hauer KE. Standardized patient-narrated web-based learning modules improve students' communication skills on a high-stakes clinical skills examination. Journal of general internal medicine 2011. PMID: 21769506


  35. Swanson S, Ku T, Chou C. Assessment of direct ophthalmoscopy teaching using plastic canisters. Medical education 2011. PMID: 21486343


  36. Mookherjee S, Chou CL. Bedside teaching of clinical reasoning and evidence-based physical examination. Medical education 2011. PMID: 21486342


  37. Chou CL, Topp KS, Kruidering-Hall M. Integrating surface anatomy learning with clinical skills training. Medical education 2010. PMID: 20946492


  38. Kim JE, Schickedanz AD, Chou CL. Near-peer workshops for pre-clerkship physical examination skills. Medical education 2010. PMID: 20374469


  39. Hauer KE, Chou CL, Souza KH, Henry D, Loeser H, Burke C, Mayfield C, O'Sullivan PS. Impact of an in-person versus web-based practice standardized patient examination on student performance on a subsequent high-stakes standardized patient examination. Teaching and learning in medicine 2009. PMID: 20183354


  40. 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 : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2009. PMID: 19907367


  41. Modica RF, Thundiyil JG, Chou C, Diab M, Von Scheven E. Teaching musculoskeletal physical diagnosis using a web-based tutorial and pathophysiology-focused cases. Medical education online 2009. PMID: 20165527


  42. Schickedanz AD, Kim JE, Chou CL. Near-peer videos for physical examination instruction. Medical education 2009. PMID: 19788641


  43. Kruidering-Hall M, O'Sullivan PS, Chou CL. Teaching feedback to first-year medical students: long-term skill retention and accuracy of student self-assessment. Journal of general internal medicine 2009. PMID: 19384559


  44. Chang A, Chou CL, Hauer KE. Clinical skills remedial training for medical students. Medical education 2008. PMID: 18991999


  45. Kelley L, Chou CL, Dibble SL, Robertson PA. A critical intervention in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health: knowledge and attitude outcomes among second-year medical students. Teaching and learning in medicine 2008. PMID: 18615300


  46. Chou CL, Chang A, Hauer KE. Remediation workshop for medical students in patient-doctor interaction skills. Medical education 2008. PMID: 18412917


  47. Lown BA, Chou CL, Clark WD, Haidet P, White MK, Krupat E, Pelletier S, Weissmann P, Anderson MB. Caring attitudes in medical education: perceptions of deans and curriculum leaders. Journal of general internal medicine 2007. PMID: 17786522


  48. Dhaliwal G, Chou CL. A brief educational intervention in personal finance for medical residents. Journal of general internal medicine 2007. PMID: 17356971


  49. Colaco SM, Chou CL, Hauer KE. Near-peer teaching in a formative clinical skills examination. Medical education 2006. PMID: 17054629


  50. Chou CL, Topp KS, O'Sullivan P. Multidisciplinary teaching of the musculoskeletal physical examination. Medical education 2006. PMID: 16635154


  51. Haidet P, Kelly PA, Bentley S, Blatt B, Chou CL, Fortin AH, Gordon G, Gracey C, Harrell H, Hatem DS, Helmer D, Paterniti DA, Wagner D, Inui TS. Not the same everywhere. Patient-centered learning environments at nine medical schools. Journal of general internal medicine 2006. PMID: 16704378


  52. Chou CL. Physical examination teaching curriculum for senior medical students. Medical education 2005. PMID: 16262822


  53. Haidet P, Kelly PA, Chou C. Characterizing the patient-centeredness of hidden curricula in medical schools: development and validation of a new measure. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2005. PMID: 15618092


  54. Rizvon MK, Chou CL. Surgery in the patient with liver disease. The Medical clinics of North America 2003. PMID: 12575891


  55. Kohlwes RJ, Chou CL. A curriculum in medical economics for residents. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2002. PMID: 12010725


  56. Chou CL, Morrison SL. Intron sequences determine the expression of kappa light chain genes. Molecular immunology 1994. PMID: 8309481


  57. Chou CL, Morrison SL. A common sequence motif near nonhomologous recombination breakpoints involving Ig sequences. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 1993. PMID: 8515063


  58. Chou CL, Morrison SL. An insertion-deletion event in murine immunoglobulin kappa gene resembles mutations at heavy-chain disease loci. Somatic cell and molecular genetics 1993. PMID: 8511672