Arianne Teherani
Biographic Data
| ID | 7719823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arianne Teherani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arianne |
| FAMILY NAME | Teherani |
| SIGNATURE | TEHERANI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2936-9832 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The 2025 Rime Foreword
Medical education scholars, particularly those early in their careers, frequently encounter challenges in integrating theory into their research, a common point of feedback from peer review processes such as the Research in Medical Education (RIME) series. Theory, defined as interconnected ideas or principles, offers a structured lens to understand complex educational phenomena. It helps organize existing knowledge, predict outcomes, and explain …
Curriculum Research Solutions
Health professions educators frequently seek to study their curriculum (e.g., a new or revised curriculum for a degree-granting program, a component of that curriculum, or a stand-alone course). Despite local enthusiasm, curriculum-focused studies are often hard to publish and have been repeatedly discouraged. Yet, few authors have proposed practical solutions. The purpose of this article is to articulate common problems with curriculum research …
What Are We Made For? Mobilizing Medical Education Research for Impact
During the past several decades, medical education research has advanced in many ways. However, the field has struggled somewhat with translating knowledge into practice. The field has tremendous potential to generate insights that may improve educational outcomes, enhance teaching experiences, reduce costs, promote equity, and inform policy. However, the gap between research and practice requires attention and reflection. In this commentary, the…
The mitigated carbon emissions of transitioning to virtual medical school and residency interviews
The climate and health crisis
The authors issue a call to action to the medical education research community, encouraging each of us to lean into the important role we play in addressing the climate and health crisis
A multi-residency elective to address well-being as a systems issue
WHAT WAS THE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE?: Burnout is a well-established issue in medical training, but optimal systems approaches for well-being and ways to engage residents in well-being work are unknown. WHAT WAS THE SOLUTION?: The authors developed a multi-residency well-being elective with participants from internal medicine, anesthesiology, and urology residency programs. The elective included an asynchronous learning curriculum, a mentored indep…
Student and Teacher Perspectives on Equity in Clinical Feedback
Interview Without Harm
The looming threat of climate change urgently calls for reimagining unsustainable systems and practices, including academia’s culture of emissions-intensive travel. Given that medical educators are uniquely invested in the future of the trainees they represent, this reimagination can and should begin with medical education. Making significant reforms to the application process has historically been challenging, but the COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed…
Urm
The Clinical Microsystems Clerkship at University of California, San Francisco
Developing Evidence for Equitable Assessment Characteristics Based on Clinical Learner Preferences Using Discrete Choice Experiments
Aspiring physicians program
Latinx physician rates are lower than non-Latinx white physicians. Many pathway programs to careers in medicine have been established for underrepresented students, yet few focus on premedical college education or undergraduate pathway programs, which marks a critical junction in the commitment to and preparation for application to medical school. Moreover, little is known about the program components which prepare and support learners. Framed by…
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Clerkship Grading
PURPOSE: Racial/ethnic disparities exist in clinical clerkship grading, yet little is known about medical student and faculty perspectives on why these disparities occur. This study explored what happens during clerkships that might explain grading disparities. METHOD: Medical students and clerkship teachers at 3 U.S. medical schools completed a demographic survey and semistructured interview. The constant comparative method was used to analyze t…
Centering Criticality in Medical Education Research
In the 2021 RIME forward, the RIME committee’s current, past, and future chairs posed the following question to the medical education research community: “What steps have we taken to advance scholarship that dismantles systems of oppression and brings marginalized voices to the forefront?” 1 The chairs raised this question because they were concerned that medical education research is steeped in traditions that have historically excluded marginal…
A is for advocacy
To improve health, physicians are increasingly called to advocate. Yet medical schools have only recently focused on health advocacy skill-building. Limited work to date addresses assessing medical student advocacy on behalf of patients. We describe how students and clinical supervisors (CS) in two urban longitudinal integrated clerkships (LIC) experience patient advocacy and how introducing a new advocacy assessment impacts them. Using a themati…
How Should Health Systems Science Promote Health Systems’ Sustainability
An expanded sustainability framework for health systems science (HSS) could promote health systems' capacity to deliver efficient, effective care for patients and to care for the planet by decreasing emissions and solid waste while cutting costs. This framework aligns well with the HSS mission to reform curricula and practice and has direct implications for patient care and systems-based practice competency development. Training clinicians to thi…
When students’ words hurt
Student evaluations of curricular experiences and instructors are employed by institutions to obtain feedback and guide improvement. However, to be effective, evaluations must prompt faculty action. Unfortunately, evaluative comments that engender strong reactions may undermine the process by hindering innovation and improvement steps. The literature suggests that faculty interpret evaluation feedback as a judgment not just on their teaching abil…
Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic
In the United States, firearm-related injuries claim over 100 lives daily. 1 Lately, physicians have taken a leading role in advocating for public health strategies, policy change, and increased research funding to address the firearm epidemic. 2 However, rates of physician counseling on firearm safety remain low, with lack of knowledge a known barrier. 3 Currently, few institutions offer a formal curriculum on the firearm epidemic. 4 We develope…
First year medical student perceptions of physician advocacy and advocacy as a core competency
PURPOSE: Medical societies have embraced advocacy as a core professional competency, but little is known about how entering medical students view physician advocacy. This study examined how first year medical students define advocacy, their motivations for and anticipated challenges to advocacy, and whether they believe advocacy should be a core competency. METHOD: This study used a qualitative content analysis approach to analyze first year medi…
Pause, Persist, Pivot
When extreme events occur, some research becomes a clear priority, but what becomes of all other research? Does it stop indefinitely, or can it be paused with plans to resume, persist with modifications, or pivot to address new priorities? Facing this dilemma and witnessing it among their fellow health professions education researchers, the authors recognized a need for guidance. This Invited Commentary presents a framework, organized as key ques…
Toward Creating Equity in Awards Received During Medical School
Membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (AΩA) is a widely recognized achievement valued by residency selection committees and employers. Yet research has shown selection favors students from racial/ethnic groups not underrepresented in medicine (not-UIM). The authors describe efforts to create equity in AΩA selection at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, through implementation of a holistic selectio…
A Narrative Study of Equity in Clinical Assessment Through the Antideficit Lens
PURPOSE: Efforts to address inequities in medical education are centered on a dialogue of deficits that highlight negative underrepresented in medicine (UIM) learner experiences and lower performance outcomes. An alternative narrative explores perspectives on achievement and equity in assessment. This study sought to understand UIM learner perceptions of successes and equitable assessment practices. METHOD: Using narrative research, investigators…
Designing Well-Being
PROBLEM: Improving well-being in residency requires solutions that focus on organizational factors and the individual needs of residents, yet there are few examples of successful strategies to address this challenge. Design thinking (DT), or human-centered design, is an approach to problem-solving that focuses on understanding emotions and human dynamics and may be ideally suited to tackling well-being as a complex problem. The authors taught res…
They Don’t See a Lot of People My Color
PURPOSE: Stereotype threat is an important psychological phenomenon in which fear of fulfilling negative stereotypes about one's group impairs performance. The effects of stereotype threat in medical education are poorly characterized. This study examined the prevalence of racial/ethnic stereotype threat amongst fourth-year medical students and explored its impact on students' clinical experience. METHOD: This was an explanatory sequential mixed …
Faculty development and partnership with students to integrate sustainable healthcare into health professions education
There is an urgent need for health professionals to address the impacts of accelerating global environmental change. Healthcare faculty therefore have to educate the rising generation of health professionals in subjects unfamiliar to themselves, such as planetary health and sustainable healthcare. This creates a new paradigm where faculty have to learn a new subject area and incorporate and teach it within their own material. It is important to d…
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Development of a longitudinal integrated clerkship at an academic medical center
In 2005, medical educators at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), began developing the Parnassus Integrated Student Clinical Experiences (PISCES) program, a year-long longitudinal integrated clerkship at its academic medical center. The principles guiding this new clerkship were continuity with faculty preceptors, patients, and peers; a developmentally progressive curriculum with an emphasis on interdisciplinary teaching; and expo…
Workplace learning through peer groups in medical school clerkships
Students achieve many aspects of workplace learning in clerkships through formal or informal workplace-based peer groups. In these groups, peers provide accessible, real-time, and relevant resources to help each other navigate transitions, clarify roles and tasks, manage interpersonal challenges, and decrease isolation. Medical schools can support effective workplace learning for medical students by incorporating continuity with peers in the main…
Teaching patient-centered communication skills
A patient-centered communication curriculum can improve student knowledge and skills. While some intervention students perceived that they made too many calls, our data suggest that more calls, an increased sense of patient ownership, and role modeling by clerkship faculty may ensure incorporation and application of skills
Choosing a Qualitative Research Approach
Educators often pose questions about qualitative research. For example, a program director might say: “I collect data from my residents about their learning experiences in a new longitudinal clinical rotation. If I want to know about their learning experiences, should I use qualitative methods? I have been told that there are many approaches from which to choose. Someone suggested that I use grounded theory, but how do I know this is the best app…
Identification of core objectives for teaching sustainable healthcare education
CVI: Content validity index; SHE: Sustainable healthcare education
How Small Differences in Assessed Clinical Performance Amplify to Large Differences in Grades and Awards
While students entering medical schools are becoming more diverse, trainees in residency programs in competitive specialties and academic medicine faculty have not increased in diversity. As part of an educational continuous quality improvement process at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, the authors examined data for the classes of 2013–2016 to determine whether differences existed between underrepresented in medic…
Pause, Persist, Pivot
When extreme events occur, some research becomes a clear priority, but what becomes of all other research? Does it stop indefinitely, or can it be paused with plans to resume, persist with modifications, or pivot to address new priorities? Facing this dilemma and witnessing it among their fellow health professions education researchers, the authors recognized a need for guidance. This Invited Commentary presents a framework, organized as key ques…
Toward Creating Equity in Awards Received During Medical School
Membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (AΩA) is a widely recognized achievement valued by residency selection committees and employers. Yet research has shown selection favors students from racial/ethnic groups not underrepresented in medicine (not-UIM). The authors describe efforts to create equity in AΩA selection at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, through implementation of a holistic selectio…
A Narrative Study of Equity in Clinical Assessment Through the Antideficit Lens
PURPOSE: Efforts to address inequities in medical education are centered on a dialogue of deficits that highlight negative underrepresented in medicine (UIM) learner experiences and lower performance outcomes. An alternative narrative explores perspectives on achievement and equity in assessment. This study sought to understand UIM learner perceptions of successes and equitable assessment practices. METHOD: Using narrative research, investigators…
Designing Well-Being
PROBLEM: Improving well-being in residency requires solutions that focus on organizational factors and the individual needs of residents, yet there are few examples of successful strategies to address this challenge. Design thinking (DT), or human-centered design, is an approach to problem-solving that focuses on understanding emotions and human dynamics and may be ideally suited to tackling well-being as a complex problem. The authors taught res…
They Don’t See a Lot of People My Color
PURPOSE: Stereotype threat is an important psychological phenomenon in which fear of fulfilling negative stereotypes about one's group impairs performance. The effects of stereotype threat in medical education are poorly characterized. This study examined the prevalence of racial/ethnic stereotype threat amongst fourth-year medical students and explored its impact on students' clinical experience. METHOD: This was an explanatory sequential mixed …
Faculty development and partnership with students to integrate sustainable healthcare into health professions education
There is an urgent need for health professionals to address the impacts of accelerating global environmental change. Healthcare faculty therefore have to educate the rising generation of health professionals in subjects unfamiliar to themselves, such as planetary health and sustainable healthcare. This creates a new paradigm where faculty have to learn a new subject area and incorporate and teach it within their own material. It is important to d…
Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic
In the United States, firearm-related injuries claim over 100 lives daily. 1 Lately, physicians have taken a leading role in advocating for public health strategies, policy change, and increased research funding to address the firearm epidemic. 2 However, rates of physician counseling on firearm safety remain low, with lack of knowledge a known barrier. 3 Currently, few institutions offer a formal curriculum on the firearm epidemic. 4 We develope…
First year medical student perceptions of physician advocacy and advocacy as a core competency
PURPOSE: Medical societies have embraced advocacy as a core professional competency, but little is known about how entering medical students view physician advocacy. This study examined how first year medical students define advocacy, their motivations for and anticipated challenges to advocacy, and whether they believe advocacy should be a core competency. METHOD: This study used a qualitative content analysis approach to analyze first year medi…
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Clerkship Grading
PURPOSE: Racial/ethnic disparities exist in clinical clerkship grading, yet little is known about medical student and faculty perspectives on why these disparities occur. This study explored what happens during clerkships that might explain grading disparities. METHOD: Medical students and clerkship teachers at 3 U.S. medical schools completed a demographic survey and semistructured interview. The constant comparative method was used to analyze t…
Centering Criticality in Medical Education Research
In the 2021 RIME forward, the RIME committee’s current, past, and future chairs posed the following question to the medical education research community: “What steps have we taken to advance scholarship that dismantles systems of oppression and brings marginalized voices to the forefront?” 1 The chairs raised this question because they were concerned that medical education research is steeped in traditions that have historically excluded marginal…
A is for advocacy
To improve health, physicians are increasingly called to advocate. Yet medical schools have only recently focused on health advocacy skill-building. Limited work to date addresses assessing medical student advocacy on behalf of patients. We describe how students and clinical supervisors (CS) in two urban longitudinal integrated clerkships (LIC) experience patient advocacy and how introducing a new advocacy assessment impacts them. Using a themati…
How Should Health Systems Science Promote Health Systems’ Sustainability
An expanded sustainability framework for health systems science (HSS) could promote health systems' capacity to deliver efficient, effective care for patients and to care for the planet by decreasing emissions and solid waste while cutting costs. This framework aligns well with the HSS mission to reform curricula and practice and has direct implications for patient care and systems-based practice competency development. Training clinicians to thi…
When students’ words hurt
Student evaluations of curricular experiences and instructors are employed by institutions to obtain feedback and guide improvement. However, to be effective, evaluations must prompt faculty action. Unfortunately, evaluative comments that engender strong reactions may undermine the process by hindering innovation and improvement steps. The literature suggests that faculty interpret evaluation feedback as a judgment not just on their teaching abil…
Student and Teacher Perspectives on Equity in Clinical Feedback
Interview Without Harm
The looming threat of climate change urgently calls for reimagining unsustainable systems and practices, including academia’s culture of emissions-intensive travel. Given that medical educators are uniquely invested in the future of the trainees they represent, this reimagination can and should begin with medical education. Making significant reforms to the application process has historically been challenging, but the COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed…
Urm
The Clinical Microsystems Clerkship at University of California, San Francisco
Developing Evidence for Equitable Assessment Characteristics Based on Clinical Learner Preferences Using Discrete Choice Experiments
Aspiring physicians program
Latinx physician rates are lower than non-Latinx white physicians. Many pathway programs to careers in medicine have been established for underrepresented students, yet few focus on premedical college education or undergraduate pathway programs, which marks a critical junction in the commitment to and preparation for application to medical school. Moreover, little is known about the program components which prepare and support learners. Framed by…
Psychology (27 works) · Medicine (24 works) · Medical education (23 works) · Innovations in Medical Education (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Medical Education and Admissions (10 works) · Diversity and Career in Medicine (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Curriculum (7 works)