Grace Yu is a modern-day “old-fashioned family doc” who enjoys caring for patients from cradle to grave. She is a clinical associate professor at Stanford University in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health and has directed the Stanford-O’Connor Family Medicine Residency Program since 2016. A graduate of Harvard (BA) and Stanford (MD), she has practiced and taught full-spectrum family medicine, including obstetrics, since 2006. Dr. Yu is deeply engaged in medical education and advocacy, having served on the board of the California Academy of Family Physicians and currently as president-elect of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors, the national organization representing more than 810 family medicine residency programs across the United States. Her scholarly work has focused on transforming faculty evaluations in competency-based medical education, addressing COVID-19 immunization disparities through primary care outreach, and exploring the qualities of resident teachers most valued by medical students.
Grace Yu is a modern-day "old-fashioned family doc" who enjoys caring for patients from cradle to grave. She is a clinical associate professor at Stanford University in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health and has directed the Stanford-O'Connor Family Medicine Residency Program since 2016. A graduate of Harvard (BA) and Stanford (MD), she has practiced and taught full-spectrum family medicine, including obstetrics, since 2006. Dr. Yu is deeply engaged in medical education and advocacy, having served on the board of the California Academy of Family Physicians and currently as president-elect of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors, the national organization representing more than 810 family medicine residency programs across the United States. Her scholarly work has focused on transforming faculty evaluations in competency-based medical education, addressing COVID-19 immunization disparities through primary care outreach, and exploring the qualities of resident teachers most valued by medical students.
A few weeks ago, I delivered a baby in the morning and sat with a grandmother near the end of life that afternoon. I adjusted insulin for a patient I first helped quit smoking ten years ago. I counseled a teenager about to leave home for college. This is the joy of family medicine: walking with people through every stage of life. But too often, that joy is overshadowed by …
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