About
University of California, Davis students and faculty know Dr. Calvin Hirsch. Despite this, he has had a significant impact on a large number of people's lives via his work in the fields of education and medicine.
Doctor Calvin Hirsch has devoted his life to assisting medical trainees monitor challenging patients in the hospital, as well as in the outpatient clinics for general medicine and geriatrics, where he served as director for 30 years.
Dr. Calvin Hirsch has educated generations of medical students, both in the hospital and in lectures. A few students of Dr. Hirsch have gone on to distinguished academic geriatrics professions.
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By the time he attended college, Dr. Calvin Hirsch already knew he wanted to be a doctor. In 1976, he graduated from Yale University, where he began his college career.
He then went on to study medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He subsequently accepted an internship and residency in internal medicine at Mt. Zion Hospital and Medical Center in San Francisco from 1980 to 1983, which was the next step in making his goal a reality.
For two years between 1983 and 1985, Dr. Calvin Hirsch served in the Tenderloin of San Francisco as a member of the National Health Service Corps. The most of his time was spent taking care of low-income elderly people who tended to live alone. Many of these patients had no relatives who could assist or take them to appointments, so he felt a huge sense of duty to make sure they received the medical treatment they need.
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This two-year period had a profound impact on my life. This encounter led him to forego a planned fellowship in infectious illnesses and, instead, complete a two-year Robert Wood Johnson fellowship at Stanford, investigating geriatric health care policy. On the end, he opted to specialize in geriatrics.
After finishing this position, Mr. Calvin Hirsch moved to work for the Palo Alto, California VA office as a medical director in long-term care for two years.
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He has accepted a post in the Division of General Medicine at the University of California, Davis Health. Over the course of his 31-year academic career at the University of California, Davis, he worked his way up from assistant to full professor.
