Mike Cheng, MD, MEd
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Dr. Mike Kai Wick Cheng is an internal medicine generalist who provides primary care. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine within the Division of General Internal Medicine (DGIM). He additionally is the Fellowship Director of the DGIM Clinician Educator Fellowship and the DGIM Resident Quality Improvement Champion, engaging residents in quality improvement within the Division.
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Dr. Cheng's areas of interest include medical education, quality improvement, and interprofessionalism.
Through teaching, mentorship, and and scholarly work, he aims to equip residents to meaningfully engage in improvement of patient care, to guide fellows in pursuit their passion within academic general internal medicine, and to evaluate the impact of programs and initiatives related to quality improvement, QI education, and interprofessionalism. As a clinician, Dr. Cheng pursues high-value care and values quality communication with patients, with an emphasis on preventative health.
He completed his bachelor's degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and completed a minor in English. He then earned his medical degree at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine internship/residency at the University of Chicago. He completed the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine Clinician Educator Fellowship.
Dr. Cheng is a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine.
Education & Training
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- MAEd Education UC Berkeley 12/2022
- Fellowship Clinician Educator Fellowship UCSF 06/2022
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training UCSF 2019
- Internship & Residency Internal Medicine University of Chicago 06/2019
- MD Medicine Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 05/2016
- BA Molecular and Cellular Biology UC Berkeley 05/2010
Publications (5)
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Imaging Wisely: An Introduction to the ACR Appropriateness Criteria® and Analysis of Its Impact on Internal Medicine Trainees.
Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR 2023 Cheng MKW, Telleria-Cano JM, Nath JB, Rieger EY, Rhee A, Tang JW, Yang CW -
Analysis of the Interprofessional Clinical Learning Environment for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety From Perspectives of Interprofessional Teams.
Journal of graduate medical education 2021 Cheng MKW, Collins S, Baron RB, Boscardin CK -
Courage in Accommodation: Connecting With Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021 Cattle CJ, McSteen B, Cheng MKW -
The Adoption of Video Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic by VA Home Based Primary Care.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020 Cheng MKW, Allison TA, McSteen BW, Cattle CJ, Lo DT -
Identification of a phage-encoded Ig-binding protein from invasive Neisseria meningitidis.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2013 Müller MG, Ing JY, Cheng MK, Flitter BA, Moe GR