Vanessa Thompson, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Vanessa Thompson, MD is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She practices clinically as a primary care provider at the Richard Fine People's Clinic and regularly attends on the resident inpatient medical service at ZSFG.

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She is a clinician-educator with medical education roles as a coach for the School of Medicine and as a member of the Program for Clinician Educator Sucess (PROcess) program in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Thompson served as an Associate Program Director for Curriculum and Mentoring for UCSF's Internal Medicine residency from 2018-2022. Dr. Thompson is committed to diversity and equity and is a co-founder of the Women in Leadership Development (WILD) program for the Department of Medicine. She was inducted into the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators in 2020.

Education & Training

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• Teaching Scholars Program University of California 2020
• Harvard Macy Program for Medical Educators Harvard University 2018
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2017
• BA History Trinity College
• Residency Internal Medicine, Primary Care University of California
• MD Medicine, Global Health University of California

Interests

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• coaching and mentoring
• primary care
• underserved medicine
• medical education
• women in medicine

Websites

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• @vthompsonmd on Twitter (twitter.com)
• Champion Provider Fellowship (championprovider.ucsf.edu)
• Posts on X vthompsonmd (X.com)

Publications (12)

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SexismHepatitis C, ChronicMoralsWomenEducation, Medical, GraduateBody CompositionStaff DevelopmentFaculty, MedicalClinical CompetenceGender IdentityEducational MeasurementInternship and ResidencyInternal MedicineAnti-HIV AgentsHIV-Associated Lipodystrophy Syndrome

• Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender on Clinical Performance Assessments in Graduate Medical Education.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2025 Klein R, Julian KA, Alba-Nguyen S, Ufere NN, Jassal SK, Simon W, Millard A, Uthlaut B, Koch J, Snyder ED, Volerman A, Thompson V, Kumar A, White BA, Park YS, Palamara K, Burnett-Bowie SM, Gender …
• Gender Differences in Clinical Performance Assessment of Internal Medicine Residents: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Influence of Faculty and Trainee Gender.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2024 Klein R, Julian KA, Koch J, Snyder ED, Jassal S, Simon W, Millard A, Uthlaut B, Burnett-Bowie SM, Ufere NN, Alba-Nguyen S, Volerman A, Thompson V, Kumar A, White BA, Park YS, Palamara K, Gender Equity…
• Analysis of narrative assessments of internal medicine resident performance: are there differences associated with gender or race and ethnicity?
  BMC medical education 2024 Klein R, Snyder ED, Koch J, Volerman A, Alba-Nguyen S, Julian KA, Thompson V, Ufere NN, Burnett-Bowie SM, Kumar A, White BAA, Park YS, Palamara K
• Exploring gender and thematic differences in qualitative assessments of internal medicine resident performance.
  BMC medical education 2023 Klein R, Snyder ED, Koch J, Volerman A, Alba-Nguyen S, Julian KA, Thompson V, Ufere NN, Burnett-Bowie SM, Kumar A, White BAA, Park YS, Palamara K
• Association of Gender and Race/Ethnicity with Internal Medicine In-Training Examination Performance in Graduate Medical Education.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Klein R, Koch J, Snyder ED, Volerman A, Simon W, Jassal SK, Cosco D, Cioletti A, Ufere NN, Burnett-Bowie SM, Palamara K, Schaeffer S, Julian KA, Thompson V

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• Association Between Resident Race and Ethnicity and Clinical Performance Assessment Scores in Graduate Medical Education.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2022 Klein R, Ufere NN, Schaeffer S, Julian KA, Rao SR, Koch J, Volerman A, Snyder ED, Thompson V, Ganguli I, Burnett-Bowie SM, Palamara K
• Strategies for forming effective women's groups.
  The clinical teacher 2020 Santhosh L, Harleman E, Venado A, Farrand E, E Gilbreth M, Keenan BP, Thompson VV, Shah RJ
• 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
• The Complex Problem of Women Trainees in Academic Medicine.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2019 Keenan B, Santhosh L, Thompson V, Harleman E
• The Unbefriended Patient: An Exercise in Ethical Clinical Reasoning.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2015 Connor DM, Elkin GD, Lee K, Thompson V, Whelan H
• Regional anthropometry changes in antiretroviral-naïve persons initiating a Zidovudine-containing regimen in Mbarara, Uganda.
  AIDS research and human retroviruses 2011 Thompson V, Medard B, Taseera K, Chakera AJ, Andia I, Emenyonu N, Hunt PW, Martin J, Scherzer R, Weiser SD, Bangsberg DR, Tien PC
• Provider assessment of eligibility for hepatitis C treatment in HIV-infected homeless and marginally housed persons.
  AIDS (London, England) 2005 Thompson VV, Ragland KE, Hall CS, Morgan M, Bangsberg DR