Sondra Zabar, MD, is Director of the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at the NYU School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Section of Primary Care, Division of General Internal Medicine.
She received an AB from Brown University (magna cum laude), her MD degree from the NYU School of Medicine, where she also completed a Primary Care Residency and served as Chief Resident, and has hospital appointments at Bellevue Hospital Center and Gouverneur Healthcare System.
Dr. Zabar’s contributions to medical education at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels include: designed and evaluated a comprehensive 10-station performance based assessment of residents’ knowledge, skills and attitudes – done annually for all primary care residents, categorical residents and by invitation to other residency training programs; chairs the NYU School of Medicine’s Graduate Medical Education Curriculum Committee; led the faculty development component of the Macy Initiative in Health Communication – a multi-site medical school project which integrated a common set of doctor/patient communication competencies during the third clerkship year; serves as curriculum leader for the CDC funded program to plan, develop, implement and evaluate a model educational program to teach health care providers about the psychosocial aspects of bio-terrorism preparedness and response; coordinated the design and implementation of a Systems Based Practice web-based curriculum for all NYU Residency Programs and developed and piloted several other web-based learning modules.
Dr. Zabar has published and presented at local and national professional meetings on topics which include: teaching and learning in medicine, faculty development and measuring residents’ teaching competencies. She was the recipient of the 2002 Excellence in Medical Education Award of the NYU Section of Primary Care, and was the recipient of the 2006 Society of General Internal Medicine award for Scholarship in Medical Education and the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Regional SGIM Medicine Medical Educator Award. |
Selected Publications: |
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Jay, Melanie; Gillespie, Colleen; Ark, Tavinder; Richter, Regina; McMacken, Michelle; Zabar, Sondra; Paik, Steven; Messito, Mary Jo; Lee, Joshua; Kalet, Adina. "Do internists, pediatricians, and psychiatrists feel competent in obesity care?: using a needs assessment to drive curriculum design". Journal of general internal medicine. 2008; 23: 1066 (#J0144136) |
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Laponis, R; Gillespie, C; Zabar, S; Kalet, AL; Adams, JG; Shah, NR; Anderson, M; Lipkin, M. "Twenty years of fostering the development of caring, balanced practitioners for the underserved: Major results of an in-depth survey of graduates of a humanistic primary care residency program [Abstract]". Journal of general internal medicine. 2008; 23: 429 (#J0136716) |
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Lee, Joshua D; Triola, Marc; Gillespie, Colleen; Gourevitch, Marc N; Hanley, Kathleen; Truncali, Andrea; Zabar, Sondra; Kalet, Adina. "Working with patients with alcohol problems: a controlled trial of the impact of a rich media web module on medical student performance". Journal of general internal medicine. 2008; 23: 1006 (#J0144135) |
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Zabar, S; Gillespie, C; Morris, K; Bernstein, CA; Ark, T; Triola, M; Holloway, W; Kalet, A. "Competency in System Based Practice: Making the system transparent - A web module with "learner appeal" [Abstract]". Journal of general internal medicine. 2008; 23: 217 (#J0136711) |
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Zabar, S; Hanley, K; David, S; Ark, T; Mara, K; Fumansky, M; Adams, J; Adina, K. "No place like home: Benefits of a home visit curriculum [Abstract]". Journal of general internal medicine. 2008; 23: 351 (#J0136715) |
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Janicik, Regina; Kalet, Adina L; Schwartz, Mark D; Zabar, Sondra; Lipkin, Mack. "Using bedside rounds to teach communication skills in the internal medicine clerkship". Medical Education Online. 2007; 12: 1 (#J0138402) |
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Triola, M; Feldman, H; Kalet, A L; Zabar, S; Kachur, E K; Gillespie, C; Anderson, M; Griesser, C; Lipkin, M. "A randomized trial of teaching clinical skills using virtual and live standardized patients". Journal of general internal medicine. 2006; 21: 424 (#J0119449) |
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Zabar S; Hanley K; Kachur E; Stevens D; Schwartz MD; Pearlman E; Adams J; Felix K; Lipkin M Jr; Kalet A. ""Oh! She doesn't speak english!" Assessing resident competence in managing linguistic and cultural barriers". Journal of general internal medicine. 2006; 21: 510 (#J0117416) |
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Frohna, John G; Kalet, Adina; Kachur, Elizabeth; Zabar, Sondra; Cox, Malcolm; Halpern, Ralph; Hewson, Mariana G; Yedidia, Michael J; Williams, Brent C. "Assessing residents' competency in care management: report of a consensus conference". Teaching & learning in medicine. 2004; 16: 77 (#J0120879) |
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Zabar S; Hanley K; Stevens DL; Kalet A; Schwartz MD; Pearlman E; Brenner J; Kachur EK; Lipkin M. "Measuring the competence of residents as teachers". Journal of general internal medicine. 2004; 19: 530 (#J0071385) |
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Haney K; Kachur E; Zabar S. "A brief but multi-faceted approach improves clinicians' domestic violence confidence, competence and clinical performance". Medical education. 2003; 37: 488 (#J0049478) |
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Janicik R; Kalet A; Zabar S. "Faculty development online: an observation and feedback module". Academic medicine. 2002; 77: 460 (#J0049287) |
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Zabar, Sondra; Ofri, Danielle. "Cough, bronchitis, and pneumonia" IN: Bellevue guide to outpatient medicine London : BMJ, 2001. 2001; 102 (#C0000958) |
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Zabar, S; Kalet, A. "Putting it all together: An effective and efficient videotape seminar for senior residents". Journal of general internal medicine. 1999; 14: 161 (#J0017216) |
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Link RN; Zabar SR. "Physician-patient gender congruence and the physical examination". Journal of general internal medicine. 1991; 6: 466 (#J0012553) |
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