Brian Gin, MD, PhD
Visiting Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Medical Education and Pediatrics
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About
Dr. Gin comes to us from the San Francisco Bay Area, where he previously served as an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). In this role, he was a Pediatric Clinician Educator and Associate Program Director for both the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship and the Pediatrics Core Clerkship.
Dr. Gin completed his MD in both Pediatrics Residency and Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellowship at UCSF. He also holds an MA in Education and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently pursuing a PhD in HPE through a joint program between Utrecht University and UCS.
Throughout his experience supervising trainees in the health professions, Dr. Gin developed an interest in understanding the trust necessary to balance safe patient care with the often-conflicting goals of trainee autonomy and experiential learning. As a trainee in research in Health Professions Education (HPE), he integrated traditional methodologies with machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, drawing from his background in computational work on protein evolution.
His current research centers on understanding the process of entrusting trainees with clinical responsibilities and developing AI methods to enhance research, learning, assessment, and clinical decision-making. Dr. Gin aims to "democratize" AI within HPE by developing open-source AI toolkits that equip users to collaborate freely in this emerging field. As AI begins to play more significant roles in HPE and clinical practice, he is also actively developing frameworks to guide the entrustment of AI itself.