Abigail Phillips, MD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Abigail (Abbi) Phillips (formerly Eastburn) is a clinician educator who practices general internal medicine in the inpatient and outpatient setting in the SFVA healthcare system. She is the site director for the UCSF ambulatory continuity clinic for residents at the San Bruno VA clinic.

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She also precepts interprofessional trainees and teaches population health and quality improvement through the VA EdPACT interprofessional training program.

She is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators. Her roles with medical student education include (1) Bridges Coach and (2) Director of F2 Clinical Skills Learning and Assessment. She has received several teaching awards including the Calvin Chou PRIME teaching award (2016) and the Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award (2014, 2016). She is interested in clinical skills development and assessment, interprofessional education, primary care training, and mentoring across differences.

Education & Training

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• Teaching Scholars Program UCSF 2020
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
• Residency Internal Medicine UCSF 2011
• M.D. UCSF 2008
• B.S. Yale University 2001

Interests

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• Primary care education
• Clinical skills development and assessment
• Mentoring across differences
• Interprofessional Education

Publications (5)

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Drug OverdoseSarcoma, KaposiSexually Transmitted Diseases, ViralEducation, Medical, UndergraduatePatient Care TeamHomosexuality, MaleInterprofessional RelationsEducation, Medical, GraduateUnited States Department of Veterans AffairsHeroinInternship and ResidencyOpioid-Related DisordersHerpesvirus 8, HumanStudents, MedicalHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

• Identifying Entrustable Professional Activities for Internal Medicine Residents in Ambulatory Continuity Practice.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Soran C, Laponis R, Summerville S, Thompson V, Eastburn A, O'Sullivan P, Julian KA
• A Lethal Hidden Curriculum - Death of a Medical Student from Opioid Use Disorder.
  The New England journal of medicine 2019 Lucey CR, Jones L, Eastburn A
• Interprofessional population health advocacy: Developing and implementing a panel management curriculum in five Veterans Administration primary care practices.
  Journal of interprofessional care 2018 Dulay M, Bowen JL, Weppner WG, Eastburn A, Poppe AP, Spanos P, Wojtaszek D, Printz D, Kaminetzky CP
• Twelve tips for delivering successful interprofessional case conferences.
  Medical teacher 2017 O'Brien BC, Patel SR, Pearson M, Eastburn AP, Earnest GE, Strewler A, Gager K, Manuel JK, Dulay M, Bachhuber MR, Shunk R
• Awareness of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus among men who have sex with men.
  Sexually transmitted diseases 2008 Phillips AM, Jones AG, Osmond DH, Pollack LM, Catania JA, Martin JN