Dr. Rechell Rodriguez
Recipient of the Excellence in Faculty Mentorship in Education Award for 2022
Dr. Rechell Rodriguez is an internist at the VA San Diego and Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSD. She received her M.D. from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), School of Medicine, and completed her Internal Medicine residency at Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, TX. She completed faculty development training at Stanford University. She has extensive medical education experience as a prior Clerkship Director for 11 years, core faculty member of three different Internal Medicine residency programs over 16 years, and Associate Dean for the School of Medicine, USUHS for three years before retiring as a Colonel in the U. S. Air Force in 2019. Dr. Rodriguez has received numerous teaching awards and honors and is a Master of the American College of Physicians. Currently, she is inaugural faculty for the Master Clinician Program for the UCSD Internal Medicine Clerkship, a member of the MED 401 Clerkship Committee, a VA representative on the UCSD Academic Excellence subcommittee for Faculty Development, and a member of the VA Women’s Health Committee. She is passionate about the education & development of physicians and has been involved in diversity efforts as well as the recruitment and retention of women physicians.
Quotes for nomination
“During the Standford Clinical teaching Course, Rechell helped me recognize my clinical precepting strengths that I had never recognized as noteworthy. She validated my creative ideas about clinical teaching and curriculum development."
“To say the least, she really has changed my career as a mentor."