Education & Academic Affairs

Vincent Quagliarello, MD, Vice Chair, Education & Academic Affairs

Dana Dunne, MD, MHS, Associate Chair, Education & Academic Affairs

Donna Windish, MD, MPH, Associate Chair, Educational Scholarship

This year saw innovative educational activities led by internal medicine faculty; expanded teaching in the Yale New Haven Hospital firms; new leadership within the Clerkship, Combined Medicine-Pediatrics (Med-Peds) Residency Program, and the Yale Internal Medicine Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP); and honors for many department educators.

Residency Program Updates

The four internal medicine residency programs celebrated Match Day on March 17, 2023, celebrating 105 incoming matches, 33 international medical graduates, and 21 underrepresented in medicine (URiM) residents.

Graduating residents were honored in July 2023:

• Graduation Festivities Held by Traditional Internal Medicine Residency Program
• Trainees and Faculty Recognized at 2023 Primary Care Residency Graduation
• Internal Medicine Med/Peds Residency Program Celebrates Graduation

Samantha Smith, MD, became the new associate program director of the Internal Medicine Med-Peds Residency Program in July 2023. She replaced Jaideep Talwalkar, MD, and was named assistant dean for education at Yale School of Medicine (YSM).

Read more news at: medicine.yale.edu/internal-medicine/news

New Leadership

Angela Kang-Giaimo, MD, MPH, was named director of the Internal Medicine Clerkship, and Anna Zimmerman, MD, as associate clerkship director in July 2023. Kang-Giaimo replaces Dana Dunne, MD, MHS, who was named the inaugural director of the YSM Longitudinal Coaching Program.

The new PSTP leaders were also announced in July 2023. Silvia Vilarinho, MD, PhD, was appointed director; and Andrew Wang, MD, PhD, was named associate director of the program. The PSTP program is the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Research pathway within the Yale Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program.

Expansion of Teaching Services

The inpatient teaching firms increased their patient numbers to help manage the patient care volume and expand the range of patient illnesses for trainee education.

Development and Scholarship

YSM New Longitudinal Coaching Program: The program's 18 coaches were announced in June 2023. They will work with medical students to support their professional development and review milestone progress in YSM’s nine MD Program competencies. Three coaches are internal medicine faculty: Stephen Baldassarri, MD, MHS; Robert Elder, MD; and Christopher Sankey, MD.

Yale Triple R (Research Resources Repository): A new residency program resource debuted in May 2023 that connects residents with a research mentor and provides one-on-one consultations with attending physicians and peers. The Yale Triple R site is available on the Internal Medicine website. The idea for the initiative came from a collaboration between resident Saeed Soleymanjahi, MD, MPH, and Shaili Gupta, MBBS, associate professor of medicine.

Clinician Educator Distinction Pathway: Open to all internal medicine residency programs, this two-year distinction pathway averages 28 resident participants and is overseen by six advisors: Matthew Zegarek, MD; Thilan Wijesekera, MD, MHS; Jennifer Ouellet, MD; Christina Johns, MD; Kathleen McAvoy, MD; and Dana Dunne, MD, MHS.

Fellows as Medical Educators (FAME) Certificate Course: The course is now in its seventh year; 20 fellows from internal medicine and other YSM departments are participating in 2023–2024. Seven fellows completed the program in June 2023:

• Matthew Ringer, MD (Infectious Diseases)
• Santhi Singanamala, MD (Infectious Diseases)
• Gregory Rubinfeld, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
• Jessica Stempel, MD (Hematology/Oncology)
• Thejal Srikumar, MD (Hematology/Oncology)
• Jessica Zuo, MD (Geriatrics)
• Chimezie Mbachi, MD (Digestive Diseases)

Lindsay Johnston, MD, MEd, and Dana Dunne, MD, MHS, direct the course.

Faculty Development: The third annual Yale-ACGME Faculty Development course on “Improving Faculty Competence in Assessment” was held in March 2023 with participants from the eastern United States. The next course will be offered in fall 2024.

[IM] Educator Series: The department-only series concluded in June 2023 and is now being offered to the entire YSM teaching community as a bimonthly Zoom series renamed YES! (Yale Medical Educator Series.) The new course combines educator skills for clinical teaching. More information and registration are available on the Center for Medical Education website. The series is co-directed by Andrés S. Martin, MD, PhD, and Dana Dunne, MD, MHS.

Advancement of Clinician-Educator Scholarship (ACES) Faculty Development Program: ACES accepted eight participants in its fifth year. Alex Choi, MD; Anika Anam, MD; Amy Ogurick, MD; Mary Clare Higgins-Chen, MPH, MD; Norrisa Haynes, MD, MPH; Cesia Gallegos Kattan, MD, MHS; Jonathan Weber, PA-C; and Nikhil Sikand, MD.

Honors & Awards

Ursula Brewster, MD, won the Rosemarie L. Fisher, MD, Excellence in Graduate Medical Education Awards in 2023.