Dr. Robert Shochet, director of the Colleges Advisory Program (CAP), will be leaving Johns Hopkins to take a new position as physician director of patient experience for the Montefiore Health System in New York City, effective July 31, 2020. Dr. Shochet is a favorite of students and faculty alike, and his contributions to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine make for an important chapter in the role of our school in medical education in this country.
A Baltimore native, he received his M.D. from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed residency training in internal medicine at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, and fellowship training in consultation psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Shochet joined the faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2005 and became the founding director of the Colleges Advisory Program (CAP), a learning community of medical students and faculty devoted to clinical skills, professional development and longitudinal career advising for medical students. “The Colleges learning community is simply built upon a matrix of trusting, longitudinal learning relationships among faculty and students that fostered a sense of home and 'safe space' to flourish and grow amidst the ever-present challenges of learning and practicing medicine,” said Dr. Shochet.
In addition to being recognized for this role here at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Shochet is a national leader in learning communities, clinical communication skills and medical students’ professional identity formation. Dr. Shochet also serves an important role as a CAP advisor himself and as the director for the Clinical Foundations of Medicine course in the first year of the medical curriculum.
As Dr. Shochet reflects on his time at Johns Hopkins, he notes “I have an enormous sense of gratitude for the privilege of working closely with the incredibly talented and passionate students and faculty at the SOM. I will certainly miss the warm embrace of these wonderful relationships and the rich opportunities for learning within this community, but I'm excited to see how the learning community may grow and evolve in the future!”