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Cynthia Frary McNamara, MD, FACP

Assistant Professor
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Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine

Co-Director, Ambulatory Education, TIMRP, Medicine

Director, Clinical Competency Committee, TIMRP, Medicine

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Assistant Professor

Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine; Co-Director, Ambulatory Education, TIMRP, Medicine; Director, Clinical Competency Committee, TIMRP, Medicine

Biography

Dr. Cynthia Frary McNamara is an Associate Program Director for the Traditional Internal Medicine Residency Program, (TIMRP), for which she is also serving as the Director of the Clinical Competency Committee and the Co-Director of Ambulatory Education. Dr. McNamara is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and an internist at the Veterans Administration Hospital Connecticut. She is honored to provide primary care for our country’s veterans and to teach medical trainees.

Dr. McNamara is interested in mentorship; she directs the MentorAdvisorCoach (MAC) Program for the TIMRP and is a mentor to approximately fifty trainees. Dr. McNamara's interests also include medical education, particularly topics related to social and identity-based determinants of health and global and rural health that contribute to health disparity. She has received two Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholar awards to serve as a teaching physician in Uganda and Rwanda and has worked providing primary care in areas of Central America. Cynthia received a Yale Department of Medicine Educational Research Grant support work on a project entitled Needs Assessment for Rural Medicine Curriculum in United States Medical Schools and presented an abstract at the 2024 SGIM National Meeting. She is part of the Women's and Gender Health Education core faculty and has taught Medication Abortion and Abortion Regulations and Patient Care, highlighting how abortion regulations contribute to health disparity; some of this work has been published, and an abstract has been presented at the 2024 SGIM National Meeting. Dr. McNamara and colleagues created an outpatient elective in Addiction Medicine for the TIMRP, an oral presentation describing the process, and this elective was presented at the Association of Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance Abuse and Addiction (AMERSA) conference in 2023.


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Education & Training

Medical Education Fellowship
Yale School of Medicine
Resident
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (1994)
MD
Cornell University Medical College (1991)
BS
Boston College, Biochemistry (1987)

Board Certifications

  • Internal Medicine

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Latest Certification Date
    2014
    Original Certification Date
    1994

Research

Overview

My academic interests include medical education, particularly topics related to social and identity-based determinants of health and global and rural health that contribute to health disparity. I am part of the core faculty for the Women's and Gender Health Education Program. I have traveled extensively and delivered and taught outpatient primary care and inpatient internal medicine in low-resource countries.

My interest in medical education was developed and expanded through the Faculty Development Program at Johns Hopkins, where I formalized my experience in educating students and residents. I have taught medical trainees and colleagues in many capacities, including outpatient and inpatient medicine individually and in small groups. I have given formal lectures to large groups of medical personnel and to community-based lay personnel. I am interested in expanding medical education to IM residents to include elements of healthcare in which disparity is based on access and/or social and identity-based determinants of health.

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Education, Medical; Global Health; Rural Health

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Cynthia Frary McNamara's published research.

Publications

2023

  • It takes a village: an interdisciplinary approach to preparing internal medicine residents to care for patients at the intersection of women’s health, gender-affirming care, and health disparities
    Henrich JB, Richman I, Rabin TL, Gielissen KA, Dhond M, Canarie JX, Hirschman AL, Windham MR, Maya S, McNamara C, Pathy S, Bernstein P, Smith R, Vasquez L. It takes a village: an interdisciplinary approach to preparing internal medicine residents to care for patients at the intersection of women’s health, gender-affirming care, and health disparities. J Women’s Health (Accepted 2023)
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • Medication Abortion
    McNamara C, 2023. Medication Abortion. In Yale Office-based Medicine Curriculum, eds. Julie R Rosenbaum, Seonaid F. Hay, and Benjamin Gallagher. New Haven, CT: Yale University.
    Books
  • Nephrolithiasis
    McNamara C, 2023. Nephrolithiasis. In Yale Office-based Medicine Curriculum, eds. Julie R Rosenbaum, Seonaid F. Hay, and Benjamin Gallagher. New Haven, CT: Yale University.
    Books

2022

2021

  • The Red Eye
    McNamara C, 2021. The Red Eye. In Yale Office-based Medicine Curriculum, eds. Julie R Rosenbaum, Seonaid F. Hay, and Laura Whitman. New Haven, CT: Yale University.
    Books

2020

  • Galactorrhea
    McNamara C, 2020. Galactorrhea. In Yale Office-based Medicine Curriculum, eds. Julie R Rosenbaum, Seonaid F. Hay, and Laura Whitman. New Haven, CT: Yale University.
    Books

2019

  • Shoulder Pain
    McNamara C, 2019. Shoulder Pain. In Yale Office-based Medicine Curriculum, eds. Julie R Rosenbaum, Seonaid F. Hay, and Laura Whitman. New Haven, CT: Yale University.
    Books

2018

  • Hypothyroidism
    McNamara C, 2018. Hypothyroidism. In Yale Office-based Medicine Curriculum, eds. Julie R Rosenbaum, Seonaid F. Hay, and Laura Whitman. New Haven, CT: Yale University.
    Books
  • Anguish
    McNamara C, Anguish, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Fall 2018.
    Peer-Reviewed Case Reports and Technical Notes

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    Community Health Partnership - Honduras

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    Christ Episcopal Church Vestry

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    Outreach Committee, Christ Episcopal Church

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    Christ Episcopal Church

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    The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare Committee, VA Connecticut

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