In remembrance: Hugh “Pat” Patterson, PhD (1942–2003)

✍ Scribed by Maureen McInaney; Sexton Sutherland; Dori Tico Murray

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 59 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0897-3806
• DOI: 10.1002/ca.20006

✦ Synopsis

UC) at San Francisco, UC Davis and the Joint Medical Program at UC Berkeley. He was beloved by his current and past students, who showered him with affection and numerous teaching awards, and by his colleagues who respected his pioneering work in anatomy education. Dr. Patterson was steadfastly committed to providing the best teaching possible for his students. He received four Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation awards for excellence in teaching and the Kaiser Career Achievement Award. Most recently, he earned the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program Award for Humanistic Teaching. During his tenure at UC Davis he received five Outstanding Basic Science Instructor awards and the Educational Opportunity Program 25th Anniversary Service award. He also won awards for developing innovative educational software.

As a part of his commitment to innovative teaching, Dr. Patterson worked with his UCSF colleagues to recently redesign the UCSF medical school curriculum. This primarily involved replacing traditional dissection with the use of previously dissected material resulting in more time for the students to learn the clinical relevance of anatomy. Similarly, Dr. Patterson had also incorporated problem-based learning into the UC Berkeley program.

Dr. Patterson was a charter member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, one of the first programs of its kind in the country dedicated to enhancing medical school education. He was influential in encouraging interdisciplinary approaches to medical education, and supported gifted teachers and mentored colleagues. Devoted to public education, Dr.