Bridget O'Brien

Bridget O'Brien is a professor of medicine and an education scientist in the Office of Medical Education's Center for Faculty Educators at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She co-directs the Teaching Scholars Program and the UCSF-University of Utrecht Health Professions Education doctoral program, where she mentors faculty and learners in education research and scholarship. At the San Francisco VA Health Care System, she directs the Advanced Fellowship in Health Professions Education Evaluation and Research. In 2015, she was selected as one of five national Macy Faculty Scholars by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, and in 2021, she was named a KIPRIME Fellow at the Karolinska Institutet. O'Brien serves as a deputy editor for the journal Academic Medicine. Her research focuses on understanding and enhancing workplace learning among health professionals, including interprofessional and team-based clinical experiences. She has expertise in qualitative research and has co-authored guidelines for reporting qualitative studies. O'Brien earned an MS in organizational behavior from the Haas School of Business and a PhD in education from the University of California, Berkeley.

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