Lynnea Mills

Lynnea Mills, MD is an Associate Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She specializes in medical education and communication, serving as Director of the UCSF GME Competency Coaching Program and Director of Accreditation for Graduate Medical Education. Her work focuses on professional skill development for trainees, clinical skills remediation, and improving feedback/coaching systems in healthcare education.

Education: B.A. from Stanford University (2004), M.D. from Columbia University (2010), currently pursuing a PhD in medical education at UCSF. Her research explores stress/emotion impacts on learning, particularly in remedial contexts, and she develops curricula for difficult conversations in healthcare.

Research interests include communication strategies for learners, remediation processes, feedback mechanisms, and the intersection of emotional well-being with medical training. She leads programs like the Clinical Skills Guidance Program and the Acting Internship in Internal Medicine, emphasizing learner support and competency development.

Her publications analyze SPIKES model adaptation for learners, cross-cultural remediation experiences, and emotional dynamics in medical education. She actively contributes to accreditation standards and program improvement across UCSF's 100+ residency programs.

Lynnea is a faculty member in the Academy on Communication in Healthcare and participates in UCSF's Academy of Medical Educators. Her work integrates humanities perspectives with clinical practice, emphasizing compassionate communication and professional development.