Drs. Adam Cifu, Patricia Kurtz, Scott Stern and Shalini Reddy direct the highly rated Junior Clerkship in Medicine. Dr. Cifu has presented innovations from the Junior Clerkship at several National Clerkship Directors’ meetings. Drs. Cifu, Diane Altkorn, Chad Whelan and Dionne Blackman teach the evidence-based medicine curricula for Internal Medicine residents and for senior students. Dr. Blackman, a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Fellowship in Medical Education, is also working on our faculty development program described below. Dr. Krista Johnson trained in the Stanford Faculty Development Program in Clinical Teaching, and has subsequently run a series of workshops for both residents and faculty.

Dr. Susan Hong coordinates core and elective curricula in Women’s Health. Drs. Alex Lickerman and Chad Whelan have developed critical pathways currently in use on the hospital in-patient service for teaching and patient care. Dr. Will Harper serves as the Course Director for Clinical Skills I, II, and III (formerly known as Introduction to the Patient and Physical Diagnosis). As such, he draws upon colleagues with our Section and Department to coordinate an extensive series of lectures and mentoring opportunities for students throughout the first and second years of medical school. Dr. Harper has presented his work in this area at regional and national meetings of the Society of General Internal Medicine. For the past twelve years, Dr. Mark Siegler has served as Course Director for a required first-year medical school course, "The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Clinical Practice".

The Junior Faculty Development Program coordinated by Dr. Diane Altkorn was launched this year in order to provide essentials of practice management, teaching skills, and scholarly activity to new faculty in General Internal Medicine. This two year program consists of a biweekly seminar series and mentoring opportunities to assist junior faculty as they develop research and educational projects and begin shaping their academic careers.

The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship (RJW) is located alongside the Section of General Internal Medicine, with shared leadership from GIM, General Pediatrics, and the Department of Health Studies. Fellows from varied medical disciplines complete two years of research training and interdisciplinary studies, including epidemiology, health economics, statistics, and electives of the fellows’ choosing, while they develop research projects leading to careers as independent investigators. Fellows can complete a Masters of Science for Clinical Professionals through the Department of Health Studies or a Masters of Arts in Public Policy through the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at The University of Chicago during their two year period of training. Graduates of the RWJ fellowship have gone on to successful academic positions at The University of Chicago, Cook County Hospital, and other major research institutions. The General Internal Medicine fellowship shares core coursework and advanced degree options with the RWJ fellowship program; GIM fellows can choose from a Hospitalist research track and a general health services research track as they work with faculty mentors to develop research projects and career plans.

The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics Fellowship training program, now in its eighteenth year, is also housed in the section of General Internal Medicine. Since 1985, this fellowship program has been the largest ethics fellowship program in the world. It has trained more than 150 fellows, including 125 physicians. Graduates of the program have published more than fifty books and direct more than forty university and hospital ethics programs in the US and Canada. For three consecutive years, US News and World Report™ selected The University of Chicago ethics program as the number one ethics program in the country. The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics offers physician-fellows both a one-year certificate program and a two-year program leading to a Master’s Degree in Health Studies or Public Policy.