Other Writing Sessions and Publications

Anna Reisman leads a series of writing workshops at the VA Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education for Yale medical residents and VA COE nurse practitioner residents. Four or five two-hour seminars per academic year, with ongoing mentoring.

Selected Publications:

Jacob Quinton in CT Mirror
Emily Alfano in JGIM
Leila Haghighat in WBUR/Cognoscenti
Jonathan Stock in JAMA Internal Medicine
Yogesh Khanal in WashPo
Jessica Deslauriers in KevinMD
Bailey Fitzgerald in The Health Care Blog
COE team Op-Ed, "The Art of Medicine: Taking a Military History", in The Health Care Blog
COE team Op-Ed, "Stay Out of My Wellness", in The Health Care Blog
COE team Op-Ed, “’Do I Still Need To Take This?’ Why Doctors Should ‘Deprescribe’ Pills”, in CommonHealth
Christine Hsueh, Megan Baker, and Anna Reisman, “The IRS Doesn’t Think Tampons Are An Essential Health Care Item. That Has To Change.” In Hartford Courant
Arjun Gokhale and John Huston, “Primary Care Physicians are at the Front Line of the Opioid Epidemic: Help Them”, in KevinMD
Arjun Gokhale, “Imprecise Medicine: The Crossroads of Delmar and Scientific Innovation”, in The St. Louis American

Lisa Sanders offers a two-week elective offered four times each year to residents in internal medicine or medicine-pediatrics, and, on occasion, to residents in other specialties. Resident participants read and respond to selected readings and write at least three pieces in the two-week period, with ongoing mentoring.

Selected Publications:

Anna DeForest in JAMA
Jasleen Salwan in Hartford Courant and National Academy of Medicine blog
Lauren Pischel in Annals of Internal Medicine
Bailey Fitzgerald in The Healthcare Blog
George Goshua in Annals of Internal Medicine and JGIM
Amish Desai in Kevin MD
Sheila Quinn in Annals of Internal Medicine
Alexandra Norcott in AM Rounds (Academic Medicine blog)
Kali Cyrus in Kevin MD
Katherine Gielissen in Hartford Courant

A series of op-ed writing workshops for National Clinician Scholars at Yale co-taught by Lisa Sanders and Anna Reisman. Two or three half-day workshops per academic year, with ongoing mentoring.

Selected Publications:

These include the VA Faculty Op-Ed Workshop (a summer op-ed writing workshop for VA primary care faculty) and the Section of General Internal Medicine Op-Ed Writing Retreat.