Amin Azzam

Amin Azzam

Professor MD

Programs and Courses Taught

At the Simulation Center:
Nursing Programs
Doctor of Physical Therapy
Doctor of Occupational Therapy
Master of Physician Assistant
Doctor of Podiatric Medicine

All sim-based Interprofessional Education (IPE) courses: "Patient safety & communication" (spring) and "IGNITE" (fall)

About Me

Amin is an educator passionate about maximizing every learner’s potential.  He enjoys immersive and collaborative forms of training, including simulation, Problem-Based Learning (PBL), and interprofessional education (IPE).  He strongly believes that acknowledging our human imperfections makes us more vulnerable but also collectively more forgiving and connected as teams.  Laughing together with good wine also helps!  Amin is also on faculty at UCSF in the School of Medicine, and at UC Berkeley in the School of Public Health at the UC Berkeley – UCSF Joint Medical Program (JMP).

Education

Amin completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Rochester, medical school at the Medical College of Virginia, and psychiatry residency at the University of California, San Francisco Department of Psychiatry.  He then enrolled in a two-year research fellowship in psychiatric genetics, before discovering that his true passion was in medical education.  Deciding that 27 years of formal education just wasn’t enough, he went back to school for a masters’ degree in education, at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on quantitative methods and evaluation. 

Teaching Interests

interprofessional education; simulation-based education; problem-based learning; educational innovation involving technologies

Scholarly Interests

interprofessional education; simulation-based education; wikipedia as an open educational pedagogy

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSiH), Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC); Association of Medical Educators in Europe (AMEE); Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP)

Community Service

Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSiH), Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC); Association of Medical Educators in Europe (AMEE); Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP)