Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD
Thinking as a Basic Science in Health Professions Education
Locations
- University of California San Francisco
Biography
Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD, is a clinician-educator and Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco.
He sees patients and teaches medical students and residents in the emergency department, inpatient wards, and outpatient clinic at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, where he directs the internal medicine clerkship.
He studies, writes, and speaks about how doctors think - how they make diagnoses, how they develop diagnostic expertise, and what motivates them to improve their practice and the systems in which they work.
Dr. Dhaliwal is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators and the UCSF Department of Medicine Council of Master Clinicians.
He has published over 140 articles and has been a visiting professor at multiple universities across the U.S. and in China and Japan.
He has received multiple teaching awards, including the 2019 UCSF Osler Distinguished Teacher Award and the 2015 national Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award.
He is currently a member of the board of directors of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. He previously served as the Co-chair of the SIDM Education Committee for 8 years.
In 2012 he was profiled in the New York Times in an article entitled “Could A Computer Outthink This Doctor?” From 2013-2018 he was a writer for the Wall Street Journal’s The Experts Health Care Report.
He has been a podcast guest on Freakonomics M.D., British Medical Journal, The Curbsiders, IMreasoning, Clinical Problem Solvers, Explore the Space, Medical Mentors, Bedside Rounds, and The Wall Street Journal Report.