Tracy Fulton, PhD
Professor
Biochemistry and Biophysics
School of Medicine

She settled on professional school education as her target path and since joining the faculty in 2000 has directed and taught in courses in the Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dentistry. Tracy is now a learner in the UCSF-University Medical Center Utrecht doctoral program in Health Professions Education, exploring how students and faculty integrate and use their knowledge in the clinical workplace, with the goal of better informing preclerkship curriculum design.

In the Bridges School of Medicine curriculum, Tracy co-directs the REGulatioN (Renal, Endocrine, GI, Nutrition) block. One of Tracy's main goals has been to transform medical biochemistry from a siloed collection of enzymes and pathways to an applied discipline focused on understanding. She worked with a team to nationally implement and study the Pathways of Human Metabolism Map, a visual tool for health professions students demonstrated to promote deep learning and application of classroom concepts to clinical problems. In her role as a course director she is passionate about helping students see connections between biochemistry and other disciplines and collaborates with faculty locally and nationally in this effort.

Tracy is a member of the Academy of Medical Educators, and held the Academy Chair for Excellence in Foundational Teaching for 2 terms from 2013-2023. Tracy mentors UCSF students in the PILLAR program, and students in UCSF School of Medicine’s postbaccalaureate program. Tracy is active in the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE), past secretary and current member of the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) committee for the Association of Biochemistry Educators (ABE), and has served on two US Medical Licensing Exam committees. For ~10 years Tracy was a leader in the Aquifer Sciences initiative, a partnership between Aquifer and the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) to design instructional tools that facilitate integration of basic sciences with clinical reasoning. Finally, Tracy was a member of the group that produced the AAMC Core Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) for Entering Residency in 2014.

• Connecting Biochemistry Knowledge to Patient Care in the Clinical Workplace: Senior Medical Students' Perceptions about Facilitators and Barriers.
  Teaching and learning in medicine 2022 Fulton TB, Collins S, van der Schaaf M, O'Brien BC
• Supporting anti-oppressive education using Zoom chat during lecture: One tool in the toolbox.
  Medical education 2021 Fulton TB, Rolón L, Bindman J, Sewell JL
• Can Content Experts Rely on Others to Reliably Score Open-Ended Questions on Summative Exams?
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021 Olvet DM, Bird JB, Fulton TB, Kruidering M, Papp KK, Qua K, Willey JM, Brenner JM
• Supporting anti-oppressive education using Zoom chat during lecture.
  Medical education 2021 Fulton TB, Rolón L, Bindman J, Sewell JL
• Thinking Slow More Quickly: Development of Integrated Illness Scripts to Support Cognitively Integrated Learning and Improve Clinical Decision-Making.
  Medical science educator 2021 Fall LH, English R, Fulton TB, Harris DM, Ngo K, Nixon J, Hembrook-Short J, Wilson-Delfosse A
• Medical Biochemistry Without Rote Memorization: Multi-Institution Implementation and Student Perceptions of a Nationally Standardized Metabolic Map for Learning and Assessment.
  Medical science educator 2018 Spicer DB, Thompson KH, Tong MS, Cowan TM, Fulton TB, Lindsley JE
• What Nutrition-Related Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes Should Medical Students Develop?
  Medical Science Educator 2017 Lindsley JE, Abali EE, Bikman BT, Cline SD, Fulton T, Lopez B, Rosenthal OB, Uhley VE, Weintraut RJ, Williams DP, Wisco JJ, Kathryn Thompson K
• Toward Defining the Foundation of the MD Degree: Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2016 Englander R, Flynn T, Call S, Carraccio C, Cleary L, Fulton TB, Garrity MJ, Lieberman SA, Lindeman B, Lypson ML, Minter RM, Rosenfield J, Thomas J, Wilson MC, Aschenbrener CA
• Using a Curricular Vision to Define Entrustable Professional Activities for Medical Student Assessment.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2015 Hauer KE, Boscardin C, Fulton TB, Lucey C, Oza S, Teherani A
• Med Sci Educ
  Meeting report: Teaching biochemistry to students of medicine, dentistry & pharmacy; 4th International Conference of the Association of Biochemistry Course Directors (ABCD). 2013 Sabina RL, McKee EE, Osheroff N, Fulton TB, Franklin DS, Hogg T, Kearney KR, King SC, Niederhoffer EC, Noramly S, Thompson K, Wimmer MJ.
• Learning objectives in radiology education: why you need them and how to write them.
  Academic radiology 2013 Webb EM, Naeger DM, Fulton TB, Straus CM
• The design and utility of institutional teaching awards: a literature review.
  Medical teacher 2012 Huggett KN, Greenberg RB, Rao D, Richards B, Chauvin SW, Fulton TB, Kalishman S, Littlefield J, Perkowski L, Robins L, Simpson D
• Med Sci Educ
  Meeting report: Teaching biochemistry to students of medicine, dentistry & pharmacy; 3rd conference of the Association of Biochemistry Course Directors (ABCD) 2011 Ronner P, Sabina R, McKee E, Fulton TB, Ferrier D, Noramly S.
• Medical Biochemistry in the Era of Competencies: Is it Time for the Krebs Cycle to go?
  Medical Science Educator 2011 Fulton TB, Ronner P, Lindsley JE
• Workshop in a Box: Project Management for Faculty and Learner Development; MedEdPORTAL Publication
  Workshop in a Box: Project Management for Faculty and Learner Development; MedEdPORTAL Publication 2011 Burke C, Fulton T, Chen H
• Workshop in a Box: Visual Demonstration of Small Group Facilitation Techniques for Faculty Development; MedEdPORTAL Publication
  Workshop in a Box: Visual Demonstration of Small Group Facilitation Techniques for Faculty Development; MedEdPORTAL Publication 2010 Fulton T, Burke C, Hyland K, Kruidering-Hall M, Masters S
• Telomere fusions caused by mutating the terminal region of telomeric DNA.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2000 McEachern MJ, Iyer S, Fulton TB, Blackburn EH
• Template boundary in a yeast telomerase specified by RNA structure.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2000 Tzfati Y, Fulton TB, Roy J, Blackburn EH
• Molecular manifestations and molecular determinants of telomere capping.
  Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology 2000 Blackburn EH, Chan S, Chang J, Fulton TB, Krauskopf A, McEachern M, Prescott J, Roy J, Smith C, Wang H
• Specific telomerase RNA residues distant from the template are essential for telomerase function.
  Genes & development 1998 Roy J, Fulton TB, Blackburn EH
• Identification of Kluyveromyces lactis telomerase: discontinuous synthesis along the 30-nucleotide-long templating domain.
  Molecular and cellular biology 1998 Fulton TB, Blackburn EH