Education

Faculty in the Hospital Medicine Division play a major role in educating medical students, residents, practicing physicians, and interprofessional teams in the general medical care of adult inpatients. Each resident team is aligned with a teaching hospitalist, who conducts daily attending rounds. Hospitalists precept and mentor medical students, direct educational programs for the residency program and medical school, and conduct research on innovative approaches to medical education. Several hospitalists are leaders in national medical education organizations and have completed advanced training in medical education.

Division faculty members provide over 5,000 hours of teaching annually. In their role as teaching attending, HMD faculty members continue the long-standing Rochester tradition of teaching at the bedside to strengthen fundamental clinical skills.

The Hospital Medicine Division is also continuously educating our faculty through a CME-accredited faculty development program. Topics include diagnostic reasoning, palliative care, quality and safety, clinical pathological correlations, teaching skills, scholarship skills, and a variety of clinical topics to ensure our faculty are equipped to provide the highest quality educational experiences, clinical care, and scholarship. Hospitalist faculty and the educational experiences provided by the Hospital Medicine Division are consistently among the most highly rated by our medical students.

• Dr. Amy Blatt, Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program, oversees educational activities for residents in the Department of Medicine.
• Dr. Adam Bracken is Director of the Disorders of Childhood course in the medical student curriculum.
• Dr. Amit Dhamoon is Associate Director of the Primary Care Clerkship.
• Dr. Ellie Garbade is a Clinical Assessor in the medical student program.
• Dr. Catie Glatz is a Clinical Assessor in the medical student program.
• Dr. Valerie Lang is Associate Chair for Medical Education Research and Scholarship, Director of the Hospital Medicine Faculty Development program, and Director of the URMC Group Peer Mentoring Program.
• Dr. William Novak is the Associate Program Director for the Internal Residency program.
• Dr. Alec O'Connor is Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency program.
• Dr. Debra Ogie directs educational activities for the Hospital Medicine Advanced Practice Provider (APP) group.
• Dr. Christine Osborne is an Assistant Program Director in the Internal Medicine Residency Program. 
• Dr. Jennifer Pascoe is the Internal Medicine Clerkship Director.

• Dr. Jennifer Readlynn is the Medicine Acting Internship Director and Director of Acting Internships for the medical school curriculum.

• Dr. Brett Robbins is the Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and the Designated Institutional Official (DIO) for all ACGME-designated medical training programs.
• Dr. David Staudt is Associate Clerkship Director for the Internal Medicine Clerkship and Associate Course Director for the Meliora in Medicine course. He oversees the medical student point of care ultrasound (POCUS) curriculum.
• Dr. Meghan Train is Assistant Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency and Associate Course Director for the Meliora in Medicine course.
• Dr. Jennifer Zagursky is a Clinical Assessor in the medical student program
• Elizabeth Palermo, DNP, RN, ANP-BC, ACNP-BC is the Specialty Director of the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP Program.
• Kathleen Brennan, ACNP, is the Educational Officer for the Sovie Center of Advanced Practice Providers.