Medical Education
Medical Education
PHM Faculty Leaders in Medical Education
Yale Pediatrics Residency Program: Click here to see our website.
Program Director: Rachel Osborn
Associate Program Director: Adam Berkwitt
Chair of the Clinical Competency Committee: Sharon Ostfeld-Johns
Advocacy curriculum and Track Director: Shannon O’Malley
Yale School of Medicine
Awards and Recognition in Medical Education
- Cherise Rowan, recipient of the Department of Pediatrics Ather Ali award for humanism and kindness.
- Faculty Honor Roll: Shannon O’Malley, Matthew Grossman, Avital Ludomirsky, Jaspreet Loyal, David Hersh, Rachel Osborn, Adam Berkwitt, Cherise Rowan and Magna Dias
- Rachel Osborn: Grant recipient from the Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut. Proposal for Innovation - Integration of behavioral health and parenting support in primary care education and care provision to promote the socio-emotional health and well-being of children
- Department of Pediatrics Section Teaching Award
- Heather Dahlquist recipient of the Howard A. Pearson, MD Award, given to the pediatric faculty member who best exemplifies the dedication, diligence and commitment to teaching and education
- Faculty Honor Roll: Cherise Rowan, Magna Dias, Adam Berkwitt, Heather Dahlquist, Jaspreet Loyal, David Hersh, Matt Grossman, Shannon O’Malley
- Awards for Innovation in Pediatric Education
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Daniela Hochreiter: Newborn discharge guidance curriculum: An educational quality improvement initiative to improve maternal knowledge retention after discharge from a well-baby nursery
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Shannon O’Malley: Creating and evaluating a pediatric residency program advocacy curriculum
- Department of Pediatrics Section Teaching Award
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Cherise Rowan, recipient of the Howard A. Pearson, MD Award, given to the pediatric faculty member who best exemplifies the dedication, diligence and commitment to teaching and education
- Faculty Honor Roll: Cherise Rowan, Magna Dias, Adam Berkwitt, Heather Dahlquist, Jaspreet Loyal
Yale PHM Fellowship
Program
Major Rotations
- Newborn Nursery & Delivery Room
- Teaching Ward Service/Complex Care
- Community Hospitalist with ED Consults, Delivery & NICU
- Surgical Consult Service & Palliative Care
- Procedural Sedation & Intensive Care
- Electives
Faculty Providing Education and Supervision
The Yale PHM fellowship program leadership is committed to improving diversity, equity and inclusion within our division. Fellows working within our division will learn how to improve equitable care throughout the health system and improve awareness and education of how certain factors, such as systemic racism, impact the health and wellbeing of our patients and staff. There are 16 faculty in the division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine who will provide education and supervision to the fellows. Additional faculty in the department of Pediatrics may provide education and supervision during elective clinical experiences as determined by each fellow’s individualized learning plan.
Areas of trainee interest for specialized curriculum could include, but are not limited to: medical education, quality improvement, health equity and clinical research.
Didactics
- Weekly section of Pediatric Hospital Medicine meetings (meeting content is divided amongst clinical discussion, journal club and faculty development. CME credit is provided for clinical discussion and journal club)
- Asynchronous learning modules in quality improvement
- Medical education sessions through the Teaching and Learning Center
- Individualized curriculum
- Fellows lecture series (weekly, from the Section of Education for all fellows in the Department of Pediatrics)
Evaluations
- Direct observation and feedback of clinical and teaching skills while attending on the teaching service
- Direct observation and feedback of resident and medical student teaching activities
- End of rotation formative and summative feedback at the end of each teaching service block
- Semi-annual meetings with program director to review summative evaluations and assess progress in Pediatric Hospital Medicine Core Competencies (Maniscalco J, et al., J Hosp Med, 2020) and Entrustable Professional Activities For Subspecialties (EPAs)
- Mentorship and feedback by primary scholarly project mentor with meeting frequency of at least every 3 months
- Current Fellows
Current PHM Fellows
Clinical Fellow
David Vermette is a Clinical Fellow in Pediatric Hospital Medicine. Prior to coming to Yale, he attended the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and completed an MBA at the University of Texas at Dallas. He completed his residency in Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Yale, and served as Chief Resident during his PGY-4 year. Following residency, he completed advanced training in medical education research with the Yale General Internal Medicine Medical Education fellowship. As a clinician educator, his interests include inpatient medicine, shared decision making, and fostering empathy and joy in trainees. He also serves as a Co-Director of the Clinician Educator Distinction Pathway for the Internal Medicine residency programs. Career and Research Interests: Exploring ways to promote human flourishing of medical traineesDeveloping quantitative measures of the community well-being of residency training programsCultivating humanistic care in medicine