EDUCATION

The DOM plays a significant role in the education of medical students, internal medicine residents and specialty fellows throughout their years of training.

UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION: MEDICAL SCHOOL

DOM faculty actively participates in training approximately 200 M1, M2, M3 and M4 students. Dr. Asra Khan is the course director and Dr. Ananya Gangopadhyaya is the associate course director for the M1 and M2 Doctoring and Clinical Skills (DoCS) course formerly known as Essentials of Clinical Medicine (ECM). The course provides instruction on basic and advanced communication and doctoring and clinical skills. Students work in small group settings to develop their skills in the systematic interviewing of patients with varying medical and psychosocial conditions, learn physical exam skills, clinical reasoning, how to present and write patient histories and to work collaboratively with peers. In addition, to serving as working group tutors, numerous DOM faculty members also participate in the Introduction to Patient Care program, Physical Exam and Communication workshops and as Hospital Immersion Tutors.

Drs. Fred Zar and Pavan Srivastava serve as the synthesis course directors. This 18-month longitudinal course allows students to see how their basic science knowledge facilitates care of patients. Class sessions focus on cases that illustrate the interdependence of the organ systems studied to date and the management of complex, multi-system diseases.

Drs. Radhika Sreedhar, Ananya Gangopadhyaya, Anne Polick, Mahesh Patel and Waddah Alrefai serve as block leaders during phase 1 of the curriculum. In addition, Dr. Sreedhar was recently named director of curricular integration.

Drs. Khan and Gangopadhyaya serve as the M3/M4 Internal Medicine clerkship directors and associate clerkship directors. Dr. Khan is also an active member of the College of Medicine Education Coordinating Committee (ECC). The ECC sets the learning objectives, program evaluation and student assessment for the M3 medicine clerkship. This clerkship is the highest rated M3 experience on the AAMC survey for two years as well. Approximately half of the M4s interact with members of the DOM in every division while doing their medicine sub-internship or electives in subspecialty internal medicine divisions. Numerous DOM faculty participate in COM Essentials of Clinical Practice and Professionalism (ECPP) course which acts as a bridge between medical school and residency covering numerous important educational topics.

Dr. Alana Biggers serves as the sub-theme lead in Population Health. She is responsible for integrating population health topics into the curriculum including how to approach population health outcomes, social determinants of health, and clinical considerations for underserved populations.