Adina Kalet, MD, and Mitchell Charap, MD, Program Directors

With generous support from the Merrin Family since 2003, the Merrin Bedside Teaching Program, and its centerpiece, the Merrin Master Clinician Fellowship Program, aims to support clinically active DGIM faculty who seek to improve the proficiency and quality of bedside teaching and patient centered care.

Applicants to the 2-year fellowship program submit personal statements indicating their reasons for seeking fellowship training, specific learning goals, and their proposed innovative, physical diagnosis bedside teaching curriculum project.  Fellowship selection is made by a faculty committee.  Fellows serve as mentors for physical diagnosis teaching skills for current and future residents and faculty.

Michael Janjigian, MD, Tumi Johnson, MD and Carrie Mahowald, MD are the newest and third faculty cohort to be accepted into the Merrin Master Clinician Fellowship Program. 

Dr. Janjigian’s area of focus will be the cardiac physical examination, and will build on the work began by prior Merrin Fellows, Gregory Mints, MD, Tanping Wong, MD, Sabrina Felson, MD.

Drs. Johnson and Mahowald will focus on increasing diagnostic and treatment skills for common dermatologic illnesses, allowing general internists to become more adroit at using the skin as a marker for disease progression.

Richard Greene, MD and Sapana Shah, MD are current Merrin Fellows, and have focused on the musculoskeletal examination (knee and shoulder).

The Merrin Bedside Teaching Program is led by Drs. Adina Kalet and Mitchell Charap.  This and other initiatives comprise the faculty development arm of the Program for Medical Education Innovations and Research (PrMEIR), Division of General Internal Medicine, Section of Primary Care.

For additional information, please contact Adina Kalet, MD, MPH (ak41@nyumc.org) or Marian Anderson (anderm04@nyumc.org)