Rebecca Berman, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Rebecca Berman, MD, FACP is UCSF's Internal Medicine Residency program director. After completing her chief residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in 2009, she joined Mass General Hospital, where she built a network of student-faculty primary care practices, the Crimson Care Collaborative (CCC).
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Over 1000 Harvard Medical students have participated in CCC gaining early exposure to primary care, to care for the underserved and interprofessional education opportunities. In 2013, Dr. Berman returned to BWH to direct its primary care residency program. Dr. Berman is the founder and co-leader of the National Association of Program Directors of Internal Medicine’s Primary Care Program Director Group and is the editor of their Primary Care Toolkit which offers a blueprint for building and strengthening primary care tracks. To help reduce pay disparities and improve diversity in medical leadership positions, she teaches nationally on negotiation skills for physicians. She is a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine and served on their National Career Development Working Group. Other areas of interest include medical education, diversifying the physician workforce, novel curricular design, health literacy, women in medicine and care for the underserved.
Awards
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- Inducted in to the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF, 2022
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
- Divsion of General Medicine Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Brigham and Women's Hospital 06/2008
- MD Harvard Medical School 06/2005
- AB African-American Studies Harvard College 06/1999
Interests
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- Negotiation
- Diversifying the physician workforce
- Curricular Design
- Medical Education
- Women in Medicine
- Primary Care
- Women's Health
Websites
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- @@rebeccabermanmd on Twitter (twitter.com)
Publications (10)
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Strengthening the Integrity of the Match: A Novel, Comprehensive, Standardized, and Transparent Postinterview Communication Policy.
Annals of internal medicine 2024 Smith CC, Barton T, Berman R, Chida N, Steinberg KP, Yialamas M, Zaas A, DeMelo N, Katz JT -
Stereotype Threat and Gender Bias in Internal Medicine Residency: It is Still Hard to be in Charge.
Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Frank AK, Lin JJ, Warren SB, Bullock JL, O'Sullivan P, Malishchak LE, Berman RA, Yialamas MA, Hauer KE -
The Road Not Taken: Disconnection of a Human-Unique Cortical Pathway Underlying Naturalistic Social Perception in Schizophrenia.
Biological psychiatry global open science 2022 Patel GH, Gruskin DC, Arkin SC, Jamerson EC, Ruiz-Betancourt DR, Klim CC, Sanchez-Peña JP, Bartel LP, Lee JK, Grinband J, Martinez A, Berman RA, Ochsner KN, Leopold DA, Javitt DC -
Prostate Cancer-Specific Mortality Across Gleason Scores in Black vs Nonblack Men.
JAMA 2018 Mahal BA, Berman RA, Taplin ME, Huang FW -
Job Negotiations in Academic Medicine: Building a Competency-Based Roadmap for Residents and Fellows.
Journal of general internal medicine 2018 Berman RA, Gottlieb AS
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Making the Voices of Female Trainees Heard.
Annals of internal medicine 2018 Rotenstein LS, Berman RA, Katz JT, Yialamas MA -
Metoprolol-induced Total Body Erythroderma.
Journal of general internal medicine 2016 Doyon JB, Liu KJ, Berman RA -
Why Aren't More Primary Care Residents Going into Primary Care? A Qualitative Study.
Journal of general internal medicine 2016 Long T, Chaiyachati K, Bosu O, Sircar S, Richards B, Garg M, McGarry K, Solomon S, Berman R, Curry L, Moriarty J, Huot S -
The Crimson Care Collaborative: A Student–Faculty Initiative to Increase Medical Students’ Early Exposure to Primary Care
Academic Medicine 2012 Berman, Rebecca MD; Powe, Camille MD; Carnevale, Julia MD; Chao, Andrew MD; Knudsen, Janine; Nguyen, Anthony; Edgman-Levitan, Susan -
Expansion of the health workforce and the HIV Epidemic.
The New England journal of medicine 2008 Huang FW, Berman RA