Associate Director
Professor of Medicine; Division of General Internal Medicine
Vanessa Thompson, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and a primary care provider at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She is a clinician-educator with medical education roles as a coach for the School of Medicine and an Associate Program Director for UCSF's Internal Medicine residency. Dr. Thompson is committed to diversity and equity and is a founder of the Women in Leadership Development (WILD) program for the Department of Medicine. She was inducted into the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators in 2020.
Interests: Coaching and mentoring; gender equity in medicine; primary care. Gardening, hiking, and parenting.
Publications
Association of Gender and Race/Ethnicity with Internal Medicine In-Training Examination Performance in Graduate Medical Education.
Journal of general internal medicine
Association Between Resident Race and Ethnicity and Clinical Performance Assessment Scores in Graduate Medical Education.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Strategies for forming effective women's groups.
The clinical teacher
Identifying Entrustable Professional Activities for Internal Medicine Residents in Ambulatory Continuity Practice.
Journal of general internal medicine
The Complex Problem of Women Trainees in Academic Medicine.
Journal of hospital medicine
The Unbefriended Patient: An Exercise in Ethical Clinical Reasoning.
Journal of general internal medicine
Regional anthropometry changes in antiretroviral-naïve persons initiating a Zidovudine-containing regimen in Mbarara, Uganda.
AIDS research and human retroviruses