Departments / Divisions

Medicine / General Internal Medicine (Primary)

Contact Information

601 N. Caroline Street, Levi Watkins, Jr, MD, Outpatient Center 7150B
Baltimore, Maryland 21287
Phone: 410-955-1120
Fax: 410-614-1195 
[email protected]

Experience

Education

• MS - Loyola College, 2008
• BS - York College of Pennsylvania, 2006

Background

Amanda Bertram, MS, is a faculty member in the Division of General Internal Medicine. She serves as the Research Associate for the Clinician Educator Mentoring and Scholarship Program (CEMSP) which helps GIM Clinician-Educators develop an area of scholarship, achieve academic success and build national reputations while enhancing recognition and job satisfaction. She works with a variety of GIM faculty on varied projects as well as with the GIM Research Director. She and the clinical and clinical educator faculty focus on educational scholarship, including many learner levels and scholarship delivering outstanding clinical care, provide for quality improvement and improved patient outcomes.

In her role, Ms. Bertram trains and assists faculty and staff on the best and most efficient ways to design research projects and other scholarly work, including IRB preparation, data collection requirements, survey design, HIPAA compliance, and the best ways to format and disseminate research. Additionally, she has worked with the Office of Faculty to educated SOM faculty and staff on IRB preparation and submission. Finally, she oversees part-time research assistants in all aspects of their work. 

Publications

• Clever SL, Dudas RA, Solomon BS, Yeh HC, Levine D, Bertram A, Goldstein M, Shilkofski N, Cofrancesco J. Medical student and faculty perceptions of volunteer outpatients versus simulated patients in communication skills training. Acad Med. 2011; 86(11): 1417-1422. (Study Coordinator)
• Taylor HA, Kass NE, Ali J, Sisson SD, Bertram A, Bhan A. Development of a research ethics knowledge and analytical skills assessment. J Med Ethics. 2012; 38(4): 236-242. (Study Coordinator)
• Bertram A, Yeh HC, Bass EB, Brancati F, Levine D, Cofrancesco, Jr. J. How we developed the GIM clinician-educator mentoring and scholarship program to assist faculty with promotion and scholarly work. Med Teach. 2015; 37(2): 131-135.
• Yeh HC, Bertram A, Brancati FL, Cofrancesco, Jr. J. Perceptions of division directors in general internal medicine about the importance of and support of scholarly work done by clinician-educators. Acad Med. 2015; 90(2): 203-208. (Study Coordinator)
• Siddiqui ZK, Conway SJ, Abusamaan M, Bertram A, Berry SA, Allen L, Apfel A, Farley H, Zhu J, Wu AW, Brotman DJ. Patient isolation for infection control and patient experience. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2018; 1–6. (Study Coordinator)
• Streed CG, Hedian HF, Bertram A, Sisson SD. Assessment of Internal Medicine Resident Preparedness to Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning Patients. J Gen Intern Med. 2019; 34(6): 893-898. (Study Coordinator)
• Siddiqui ZK, Abusamaan M, Bertram A, Allen L, Wu A, Zhu J, Brotman D. Comparison of services in 5-star and non-5-star patient experience hospitals. JAMA Intern Med. 2019 (Study Coordinator)
• Herzke C, Bonsall J, Bertram A, Hsin-Chieh Yeh, Apfel Ariella, Cofrancesco J. Gender Issues in Academic Hospital Medicine: A National Survey of Hospitalist Leaders. J Gen Intern Med. 2020; 35 (6): 1641-6. (Study Coordinator)
• Epstein JA, Cofrancesco J Jr, Beach MC, Bertram A, Hedian HF, Mixter S, Yeh HC, Berkenblit G. Effect of Outpatient Note Templates on Note Quality: NOTE (Notation Optimization through Template Engineering) Randomized Clinical Trial. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Sep 8. (Study Coordinator)
• Anderson IJ, Berk J, Bertram A, Stein A, Niranjan-Azadi A, Record J, King C, Garber A, Pahwa A. Supplementing the Subinternship: Effect of E-Learning Modules on Subintern Knowledge and Confidence. Am J Med. 2021 May 19:S0002-9343(21)00295-3. (Study Coordinator)
• Ranasinghe PD, Owusu JT, Bertram A, Michtalik H, Yeh HC, Cofrancesco J Jr, Levine D, Miller Iii ER, Marinopoulos S. Depressive Symptoms and Burnout Among Medical Students: a Prospective Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 May 26. (Study Coordinator)
• Rosen MA, Bertram AK, Tung M, Desai SV, Garibaldi BT. Use of a Real-Time Locating System to Assess Internal Medicine Resident Location and Movement in the Hospital. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(6):e2215885. (Study Coordinator)