Program Curriculum

Dr. Ashish Sharma is very enthusiastic toward teaching and answers all questions fully and provides insightful feedback.

Dr. Jhamb consistently teaches with a high degree of effectiveness and is very motivated to teach.

Dr. Robin Roy was an excellent hospitalist to work with during my admitter month. He is extremely kind, patient, and a wonderful teacher.

Dr. Bhagat Kondaveeti was a great hospitalist to work with during my month of being Admitter. He always offers constructive feedback and great clinical pearls when staffing. He offered me plenty of autonomy to manage patients independently but was always there for support and guidance when needed.

Dr. Maston is an excellent clinician. He has a great bedside manner, is compassionate, and leads by example.

Dr. Roy is an excellent provider and teacher. He teaches evidence-based medicine and allows a perfect amount of supervision and autonomy. He should get more time on teaching services. A huge asset to the program.

Dr. Sharad Sharma is great to work with. He allows sufficient autonomy and is very approachable.

Dr. Roberge, you are awesome. I loved every minute of learning from you.

Dr. Toor was amazing. He was always available to staff and created a great environment for us to work in.

Dr. Khan was an amazing attending, very knowledgeable and supportive of residents.

Dr. Abhishek was great, very thorough and always available.

Dr. Conroy was a great attending to work with. She was always there for any discussion and involved in our learning throughout the rotation.

Dr. Wegrecki is a pleasure to work with, provides great feedback and teaching. She is always available for questions, very helpful.

Dr. Khan is a pleasure to work with, spends time on teaching and provides great feedback.

Dr. Ghobrial is one of the most brilliant attendings in the program. Also a pleasure!

Dr. Kiazand goes above and beyond to ensure her residents do well. She is a great teacher and an asset to the program.

Dr. Kiazand, Dr. Wegrecki, and Dr. Khan are compassionate educators who also prioritized support for resident wellness. Their teaching was relevant and interesting. The schedule flexibility was also really appreciated!! I also enjoyed the journal club as it is a good way to academically engage the residents.

Dr. Saeed is an excellent cardiologist with great clinical teaching skills. She taught evidence-based medicine quoting trials which always inspired and prompted me to go read up research literature after discussion.

Dr. Ward is one of the smartest doctors I know. He loves to teach and patients love his honesty and has great bedside manners. I couldn't be more fortunate to work with him!

Dr. Magnani is a fantastic cardiologist and he was extremely helpful during my cardiology rotation. He is a great mentor and I've learned so much from him.

Dr. Wei Sun was fantastic to work with. He was very enthusiastic about teaching and answered all of our questions. He made sure that we were able to understand concepts that he was discussing. Pleasure to work with.

Dr. Fallert's passion for Cardiology was very evident through his willingness to teach. He would go above and beyond with answering any question I had. He would often quote research articles to ensure his teaching was evidence-based.

Dr. Robertson was very unique during this rotation where he not only taught about general cardiology topics but also invited me into the Cath lab multiple times to learn techniques of various procedures and understand the rationale behind what is done in the Cath lab. The learning opportunities provided by him far exceeded my expectations from this rotation.

Dr. Sun prioritized learning during clinical cases as well as taught resident interest driven topics. He emphasized and stressed evidence-based medicine. Truly a fantastic teacher!

Absolutely excellent experience working with Dr. Butcher. Rounding was always organized, thorough and efficient. Every patient was an opportunity for learning as he would have many teaching points throughout the course of the day. Enjoyed working with Dr. Butcher in the ICU and looking forward to working with him again.

I had the pleasure of working with Dr. Lincoln during my ICU rotation. I appreciated that she would allow us to make our plans and have the fellows run rounds but was always there to help. She was great with feedback too especially in critical situations. She has a calming demeanor which I think helped well in stressful situations. I also liked the attention to goals of care given her palliative background and learned a lot when sitting in or having family meetings with patients.

Dr. Sarah Andersen is a great attending to work with in the ICU. She is very patient and emphasizes teaching on all of the patients which is appreciated.

Dr. Abdulmajeed is always great to work with. He is an awesome mentor, teacher, and a compassionate physician. I appreciate the feedback he gave us and taking the time to teach us.

Dr. Steinberg clearly has mastery over neurocritical care and it is impressive to see her perspectives and management of complicated cases. She offers some good learning pearls during rounds.

Dr. Jonathan Bishop was great to work with during my ICU rotation. He was eager to teach with each patient so there was always a learning opportunity. He also provided great feedback during the rotation to help further enhance my skills and where to improve as I continued through the rotation.

I had a great time rounding with Dr. Willard. I appreciated that she tailored her teaching to our level of training and focused on topics that I wanted to learn more about.

Dr. Selk is a great teacher and clinician. I learned a lot and enjoyed my endocrinology rotation. Dr. Selk is passionate about teaching residents.

I worked with Dr. Pinkhasova in inpatient. I really enjoyed my time working with her because she would use the cases themselves as teaching points so the material was always very relevant. She would also review concepts we discussed previously to reinforce key points which also helped improve my retention of this information. She is extremely professional but also very friendly and a pleasure to work with.

Dr. Pezzone is an exceptional teacher and physician. I learned so much from him, things I could not have grasped just by reading up literature on my own. His approach to evidence-based medicine and the amount he has contributed to medicine itself, is awe worthy. He was approachable and always ready to address any questions or confusions I might have. An amazing human being. Loved every minute working with him.

Dr. Tadic took the time every day to create discussion and cover teaching points, in addition to modules and other reference materials. It was a great experience to see patients at Benedum, in an outpatient multi-disciplinary setting. He provided useful and insightful feedback that I will take forward with me through my career.

Dr. Kaushik Patel is a great attending to work with on the floors on GM1. He provides the team with sufficient autonomy with the service so that the senior feels comfortable going forward managing patients on his or her own. He provides salient teaching points when necessary and assists in difficult conversations with patients.

Dr. Kondaveeti provided excellent mentorship and effectively communicated expectations throughout the time we worked together.

Dr. Maston is an amazing mentor and an even greater teacher. Every rounds were insightful and taught us something new. I’m looking forward to working with him again.

Dr. Kuriakose is great to work with. He gave very good feedback thought the rotation. He had teaching sessions with me and the intern on service. I really enjoyed the way he worked out plans for patients together. Also had great bedside manner.

Dr. Conroy is an excellent attending, role model, mentor and educator. She seamlessly teaches and provides thoughtful feedback in order to inspire continued resident growth at every level of training.

Dr. Carrington was always available to answer any questions posed. She always explained her thought process behind her medical decisions which made learning easier.

Dr. Philbin imparts great wisdom on a daily basis. His experience shines through his decision-making, and it is a privilege to be immersed in that. I think what carries even farther, is the rapport he builds with his patients, and how that helps in delivering patient-centered care.

Dr. Mashukur Khan is an empathic hospitalist who teaches in an engaging and enthusiastic way.

Dr. Abunto has a fantastic bedside manner and enjoys collaboratively working as a team to enhance patient care.

Dr. Peter Harvey was great to work with throughout the time on floors. He was thorough in going over presentations and directing me to important aspects I should be focusing on. He took the time to teach each day even if it was a small topic. He gave great feedback and was always easy to communicate with.

I was happy to work with Dr. Ashish Sharma. He is easy to discuss patients with and was good at working through each problem the patient had. Dr. Sharma is calm and good with patient interaction and provided a good amount of autonomy to the residents too to allow up to make decisions in patient care.

I worked with Dr. Mash Khan for two weeks. He is very kind to the patients. He makes sure we get to remember at least one very important teaching point from each patient encounter. Dr. Khan has made significant efforts to invite specialty attendings during the teaching rounds in the afternoon that has made it more interactive and provided greater insight into how a specific disease is managed from a specialty perspective vs how the guidelines dictate.

I worked with Dr. Foust and she is a model faculty member. I had, hands-down, the most learning during these two weeks so far in my residency. From acute management to foreseeing certain complications in a chronic stable patient, we touched upon many things. I will be looking forward to working with her again.

Dr. Abhishek is so smart and loves to share his knowledge with residents. I really enjoy how he does rounds. He is one of the best attendings in terms of his teaching.

Dr. Abunto is a very thoughtful and intelligent attending. He allowed the residents to truly drive the care of the patients on the service, only serving to interfere when the benefit of his wisdom and experience would affect the outcome of the care. He allowed us to present and implement plans, advocate for our patients by working directly with multiple disciplines throughout the hospital, and to challenge each other with broad differentials and discussions of pathophysiology.

Dr. Jhamb is efficient and effective. He rounds with a focus on task completion and pursuing quality care for his patients without delay. He has a charming sense of humor that helps to break down communication walls with patients and makes us, as learners, feel more comfortable approaching him. During the week he was on, we saw a lot of cancer and palliative care cases, and his insight into the management of them was very helpful for the future.

It was great working with Dr. Curci. She was both very efficient with rounds but a great teacher as well. I really appreciated that she made herself available to the GM 8 resident for help any time of the workday. I also appreciate the teaching points with impromptu lectures on questions I had or help with my teaching sessions. Dr. Curci is an excellent teacher and helpful attending! I look forward to working with you again!

Dr. Hussain is a great physician and teacher. He provides effective teaching using the patients we were rounding on to emphasize evidence-based medicine in evaluating and managing different medical conditions. He has excellent time management skills that allowed me not to miss any noon conferences.

I had a fantastic experience at the Hillman Cancer Center. Dr. Hou and his staff were wonderful to work with. Very easy to work with, always available for questions, and great teachers!

I enjoyed working with Dr. Krauze. He enjoys teaching and is very down to earth. He also teaches life skills beyond medicine, which is very useful.

Dr. Yee was very approachable with questions and spent a lot of time teaching. She was open to questions and provided helpful learning materials as well.

Dr. Arbulu was a great attending to work with! He was kind, patient, and attentive, and offered constructive feedback during rounds as well as throughout the course of the rotation. He offered me ample autonomy to formulate my own impressions and plans and taught useful clinical pearls. He was attentive to my time and did his best to balance the, at times, heavy consult load of the teaching service.

Dr. Volosky is very enthusiastic, intelligent and easily approachable. He created a great learning environment for residents & medical students while aiding in decision making.

Dr. Perez was a great attending to work with on ID. He would ensure that consults done by the residents were good educational opportunities and would go through other patients on the service with interesting cases or learning opportunities.

I appreciated the extra interest Dr. Yassin showed to me as a person. He is the only doctor that has ever taken me aside to get to know me better and to try to empower me to be better and succeed, with specific guidance in how to do so. Laid back rounding style made for a smooth time during rounds and enhanced our learning.

Dr. Sahas was excellent to work with! She was kind, patient and taught me how to do microscopic UA. This was in addition to the good teaching points she offered. I also appreciated that she hand-picked key cases that would be beneficial for me to learn from, instead of just handing out random cases.

Dr. Dorneich was a pleasure to work with. She was kind and patient, and carefully picked cases for me to work on. Specifically, I appreciate the opportunity to work on ICU cases which are slightly more complicated and let me learn more.

Dr. Puli has an amazingly humble and straightforward approach to rounding. His ability to teach and distill difficult to digest information into readily understandable content has been unmatched by other attendings I have had the pleasure of working with. Best experience in an elective I have had so far. Thank you, Dr Puli!

Dr. Abramovitz is a truly an amazing clinical provider and teacher. He dedicated time to teaching, chalk talks, and MKSAP questions. He also used cases seen to target teaching into staffing consults. He teaches evidence-based medicine and sends articles for further learning. He is a truly talented instructor and his passion for teaching and learning is infectious.

Dr. Zaretskaya is a phenomenal attending! She’s passionate about neurology, thorough and an excellent teacher. In addition to this, she is attentive, and easy to work with. Overall, I had a great learning experience on this rotation! 5/5 in all aspects.

Dr. Marc Roberge is wonderful. He is extremely personable, kind, and supportive of the residents, and we felt this especially during our time on nights. He always advocates for the residents but also provides support and guidance when questions or concerns arise. We are truly lucky to have him!

Dr. Kapoor is a pleasure to work with! She always finds time to educate residents on clinical pearls and pushes our thinking further. She is up to date with current guidelines in medical management and expects residents to explore and practice according to those guidelines. She goes above and beyond for resident success and is always willing to lend a hand! I will likely not get the opportunity to work with her for the remainder of the year but hope to see her around next year!

Dr. Lincoln was a pleasure to work with. The rotation provided a great learning opportunity for how to run family meetings as well as how to deal with other family dynamic issues that present. I would highly recommend this rotation.

Dr. Kelly Harris was a pleasure to work with. She has a great bedside manner, patient allocation and spent time teaching while being cognizant of not wasting residents’ time. What a wonderful addition to the palliative team.

Dr. Childers is very efficient and effective at her job. She has AMAZING bedside manners and speaks to family members with sincerity. She taught me transition points and how to initiate conversations during GOC discussions.

Dr. Thurston was great to work with. He spent a lot of time explaining things and assisting in any way he could. I enjoyed this rotation very much and learned a lot.

Dr. Ghobrial is an exemplary physician and working with him truly gives so much insight to the true work of a primary care physician. He took all opportunities to teach, not just appropriate evidence-based medical knowledge, but professionalism as well.

Dr. Kaushik Patel is an exemplary role model for me as a budding internist. Through this rotation, he showed me the art of time management to successfully manage patients within a hospital setting as well as a clinic setting. He helped me understand the importance of being thorough with details and understanding the value of building excellent rapport with patients. During my time in clinic, he would engage with me to ask relevant questions, and prompt me to form differential diagnoses. I thought this was extremely stimulating as a learner/trainee. It would be an honor to work with him again.

Dr. Carrington is a fantastic and personable clinician. She is loved by her patients and emulated great interpersonal and physical examination skills. She really opened my eyes to how efficient and well run a clinic can be. Thank you for everything Dr Carrington!

Dr. Raj Patel taught the art and science of medicine. This clinical experience was the first in which I truly got to understand billing, outpatient workflow and realistic management. I really appreciated it when we had downtime, he would do clinical vignettes that would focus on board relevant topics.

I had an amazing experience working with Dr. Curci during my 2 weeks in Psych. She is incredibly knowledgeable about psychiatry, and I was impressed by her deep knowledge of internal medicine as well. She taught thoroughly and at length, answered all my questions adeptly and with mastery. I absolutely loved working with her! Thank you, Dr. Curci, very much for the experience.

Dr. Ganguli was very pleasant to work with. His enthusiasm was contagious, and his teaching was appreciated.

Dr. Kreit really is the gold standard when it comes to medical education. It was a privilege to learn from him. Throughout the rotation he would create a stress-free environment and pose stimulating and thoughtful questions/cases to solidify learning. He explained any and every concept that was asked and does so in a digestible manner. I wish there were more faculty like him.

Dr. Kass is a great attending. He always takes time out to teach, especially during rounds. He additionally gives us really good teaching pearls, specifically for pulmonology which is relevant to our floor rotations and makes it easier for us to manage respiratory conditions.

Dr. Rachel Givelber was a wonderful attending to work with! She is extremely knowledgeable and used every opportunity and case to impart valuable clinical pearls regarding Pulmonology. We had a wide variety of cases which enhanced the learning experience that much more. I found my time with Dr. Givelber extremely rewarding and educational.

Dr. Rime Abbas was a wonderful attending. She is extremely kind, patient, and knowledgeable and would always set aside dedicated teaching time to go over important learning points.

Dr. El Ali was very easy to work with and I really appreciated his habit of reaching out to consulting teams to update them on management in person. He provided good teaching and spent time covering an entire online module. I would love to work with him again.

Dr. Semaan is an excellent teacher and very fun to work with. He makes rounds easy and nonjudgmental. He allows you to come up with plans and challenges you to make evidence-based decisions. He reviews and teaches imaging findings. I wish we had more time to work with him.

I enjoyed working with Dr. Helfrich. He has a great bedside manner and his patients love him. He is professional, very approachable, and a wonderful teacher of Rheumatology.

Dr. Birnbaum is enthusiastic about rheumatology and provided a wealth of knowledge about various clinical diagnoses pertaining to the field of rheumatology.

I thoroughly enjoyed working with Dr. Malley. She was enthusiastic to teach, was incredibly knowledgeable in all things toxicology, and was always available for any questions. Moreover, she was easy to work with, and overall made me feel like a member of the team.

Dr. Scanlon was enthusiastic to teach, was incredibly knowledgeable in toxicology, and was always available for any questions. Overall, I was very pleased with my toxicology rotation, and would highly recommend it to any of my colleagues.

Dr. Shulman was incredibly knowledgeable, eager to share teaching points with me, and was always available for any questions.

Dr. Pizon is amazing to work with. He has good teaching skills, and he knows how to foster teamwork.

Dr. Abesamis has a wealth of knowledge, and it was a privilege to work with him on this rotation.