Medical Education in General Internal Medicine
The focus of medical education in Hopkins GIM is to develop and evaluate curricula for medical students, residents, and fellows. Members of our group work to design, implement, evaluate, and continually improve learners' experiences at all levels of graduate and post-graduate training.
Within these curricula, we strive to integrate such principles as evidence-based medicine, clinical epidemiology, cost effectiveness, and clinical decision making. These learning experiences exist in both traditional formats of small- and large-group teaching settings, as well as innovations in medical education including the Johns Hopkins Medicine Internet Learning Center, now in use at one out of every three internal medicine residency training programs nation-wide. We have also developed an emphasis on quality clinical training in the ambulatory setting for medical students and physicians in residency training designed to meet society’s needs. Finally, Johns Hopkins is home of the Osler Center for Clinical Excellence which has supported many of these efforts within our Division.
Medical Education Faculty
| Name | Research and Medical Education Interests |
| Bimal H. Ashar, MD, MBA, FACP Professor of Medicine Clinical Director, GIM Division Director, Executive and Preventive Health Program Director, Advanced Medicine Clerkship |
Complementary and alternative medicine; primary care practice management; preventive medicine |
| Gail Berkenblit, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Medicine Associate Program Director, Ambulatory Education, Osler Medicine Training Program |
Improving resident training in HIV outpatient care, design and evaluation of an internet-based curriculum |
| Zackary Berger, MD, PhD, FACP Associate Professor of Medicine Core Faculty, Berman Institute of Bioethics Associate Faculty, Brancati Center for the Advancement of Community Care Staff Physician, Esperanza Center Health Clinic |
Shared decision making, clinical bioethics, healthcare of immigrants and other vulnerable populations; health justice |
| Youngjee Choi, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Program Director, Primary Care for Cancer Survivors Program |
Cancer survivorship, ambulatory care, high value care, medical education, curriculum development |
| Joseph Cofrancesco Jr, MD, MPH, FACP Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Institute for Excellence in Education Professor of Medicine Director, Institute for Excellence in Education Director, GIM Clinician-Educator Mentoring and Scholarship Program |
GIM: National/international surveys of clinician educators, faculty development, improving teaching, international medical education collaboration, gender issues in medical education, assisting faculty with educational research and innovation, promotion of clinician educators HIV: HIV treatment, metabolic and body shape complications, HIV infection, and HIV treatment. |
| Helene F. Hedian, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine |
Improving provider attitudes, knowledge, and clinical expertise for the care of LGBTQ patients; Gender-affirming care of transgender patients; LGBTQ health |
| Mark T. Hughes, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine |
Informed consent; ethics in patient care |
| Amit Pahwa, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Director, Internal Medicine Sub-internship, Johns Hopkins Hospital |
Medical education, quality improvement, assessing the effect of curriculum in various aspects of medical school |
| Stephen Sisson, MD, FACP Professor of Medicine Philip A. Tumulty Professor of Medicine Vice President, Clinical Operations, Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians Director, Physician Education and Assessment Center (PEAC) |
Computer-assisted instruction; curricular development |
| Christiana Zhang, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine |
Curriculum development and revision, women’s health, medical education, medical humanities |