Rebecca Berman, MD

Professor of Clinical 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). 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.

Education
2018 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
06/2008 - Divsion of General Medicine Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency, Brigham and Women's Hospital
MD, 06/2005 - , Harvard Medical School
AB, 06/1999 - African-American Studies, Harvard College
Honors and Awards
  • Inducted in to the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF, 2022
Publications
  1. Smith CC, Barton T, Berman R, Chida N, Steinberg KP, Yialamas M, Zaas A, DeMelo N, Katz JT. Strengthening the Integrity of the Match: A Novel, Comprehensive, Standardized, and Transparent Postinterview Communication Policy. Annals of internal medicine 2024. PMID: 38498877


  2. Frank AK, Lin JJ, Warren SB, Bullock JL, O'Sullivan P, Malishchak LE, Berman RA, Yialamas MA, Hauer KE. Stereotype Threat and Gender Bias in Internal Medicine Residency: It is Still Hard to be in Charge. Journal of general internal medicine 2023. PMID: 37985610


  3. 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. The Road Not Taken: Disconnection of a Human-Unique Cortical Pathway Underlying Naturalistic Social Perception in Schizophrenia. Biological psychiatry global open science 2022. PMID: 37519457


  4. Mahal BA, Berman RA, Taplin ME, Huang FW. Prostate Cancer-Specific Mortality Across Gleason Scores in Black vs Nonblack Men. JAMA 2018. PMID: 30561471


  5. Berman RA, Gottlieb AS. Job Negotiations in Academic Medicine: Building a Competency-Based Roadmap for Residents and Fellows. Journal of general internal medicine 2018. PMID: 30276658


  6. Rotenstein LS, Berman RA, Katz JT, Yialamas MA. Making the Voices of Female Trainees Heard. Annals of internal medicine 2018. PMID: 30014140


  7. Doyon JB, Liu KJ, Berman RA. Metoprolol-induced Total Body Erythroderma. Volume 32 of Issue 2. Journal of general internal medicine 2016. PMID: 27761769


  8. Long T, Chaiyachati K, Bosu O, Sircar S, Richards B, Garg M, McGarry K, Solomon S, Berman R, Curry L, Moriarty J, Huot S. Why Aren't More Primary Care Residents Going into Primary Care? A Qualitative Study. Volume 31 of Issue 12. Journal of general internal medicine 2016. PMID: 27488970


  9. Berman, Rebecca MD; Powe, Camille MD; Carnevale, Julia MD; Chao, Andrew MD; Knudsen, Janine; Nguyen, Anthony; Edgman-Levitan, Susan. The Crimson Care Collaborative: A Student–Faculty Initiative to Increase Medical Students’ Early Exposure to Primary Care Academic Medicine 2012. PMID:


  10. Huang FW, Berman RA. Expansion of the health workforce and the HIV Epidemic. Volume 358 of Issue 15. The New England journal of medicine 2008. PMID: 18411432