Our Faculty and Research

The faculty affiliated with the Internal Medicine residency program is truly second to none. The Division of General Internal Medicine has a long history of medical education research and seeks to constantly improve the teaching of students and housestaff. Here are just a few of our recent accomplishments:

Resident Education

Rudy DW, Fefjar M, Ramsbottom-Lucier M, Griffith CH, Wilson JF. A Pilot Study Assessing Influences of Charge Data and Group Process on Diagnostic Test-Ordering by Residents. Acad Med. 2001; 76: 635-637.

Pursley HG, Kwolek DS, Griffith CH, Wilson JF. Woman’s Health Issues and Residents’ Knowledge. JKentucky Medical Association. 2002; 100: 238-244.

Bass PF, Wilson JF, Griffith CH, Barnett DR. Residents Ability to Identify Patients with Poor Literacy Skills. Acad Med. 2002; 77: 1039-1041.

Griffith CH, Wilson JF, Langer S, Haist SA. Housestaff Nonverbal Communication Skills and Standardized Patient Satisfaction. J Gen Intern Med. 2003; 18: 170-174.

Griffith CH, Wilson JF. The Loss of Idealism Throughout Internship. Eval and the Health Professions. 2003; 26: 415-426.

Deep KS, Green SF, Griffith CH, Wilson JF. Medical Residents' Perspectives on Discussions of Advanced Directives: Can Prior Experience Affect How They Approach Patients? J Palliat Med. 2007;10:712-720.

Borrero S, McGinnis K, McNeil MA, Frank J, Conigliaro RL. Professionalism in Residency Training: Is there a Generation Gap? Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 2008; 20(1): 11-17.

KS Deep, CH Griffith, JF Wilson. Changes in Residents’ Beliefs about Resuscitation over a Decade. Journal of Critical Care, in press.

KS Deep, CH Griffith, JF Wilson. Discussing Preferences for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: What do Resident Physicians and their Hospitalized Patients Think Was Decided? Pt Educ and Couns 2008 Jul;72(1):20-5.

Deep KS, Griffith CH, Wilson JF. Communication and decision making about life-sustaining treatment: Examining the experiences of resident physicians and seriously-ill hospitalized patients. Journal of General Int Med 2008 Nov;23(11);1877-1882.

Feddock CA, Hoellein AR, Griffith CH, Wilson JF, Becker NS, Bowerman JL, Caudill TS. Are Continuity Clinic Patients Less Satisfied When the Residents Have a Heavy Inpatient Workload? Eval Health Prof. 2005;28(4):390-399.

Hoellein AR, Feddock CA, Wilson JF, Griffith CH, Rudy DW, Caudill TS. Student Involvement on Teaching Rounds. Academic Medicine. 2007; 82 (10):S19-21

Feddock CA, Hoellein AR, Wilson JF, Caudill TS, Griffith CH. Do Pressure and Fatigue Affect Resident Job Performance? Med Teach. 2007;29:495-7.

AR Hoellein, CA Feddock, Caudill TS, Barnett DR, Bass PF, Wilson JF, Griffith CH. Are Continuity Clinic Patients Less Satisfied When the Resident is Post-Call? J Gen Intern Med. 2004; 19(5): 562-5.

DR Barnett, PF Bass, CH Griffith, TS Caudill, JF Wilson. Determinants of Resident Satisfaction With Patients in their Continuity Clinic. J Gen Intern Med. 2004; 19:456-459.

Hoellein AR, Feddock CA, Caudill TS, Barnett DR, Bass PF, Wilson JF, Griffith CH. Are Continuity Clinic Patients Less Satisfied When the Resident Is Post-call? J Gen Intern Med. 2004; 19(5):562-565.

Education Innovations

Conigliaro, RL, Hess, R, McNeil, MA. An Innovative Program to Provide Women’s Health Education to Residents with VA-based Ambulatory Care Experiences. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 2007; 19(2): 148-153.

Haist SA, Wilson JF, Lineberry MJ, Gibson JS, Griffith CH. A Randomized Controlled Trial Using Insinuated Standardized Patients to Assess Residents’ Domestic Violence Skills following a Two-hour Workshop. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 2007; 19: 336-342.

Duke MB, Griffith CH, Haist SA, Wilson JF. A Clinical Performance Exercise for Medicine-Pediatrics Residents Emphasizing Complex Ambulatory and Psychosocial Skills. Acad Med. 2001; 76: 1153-1157.

Haist SA, Wilson JF, Pursley, HG, Jessup ML, Gibson JS, Kwolek DS, Stratton TD, Griffith CH. Domestic Violence: Increasing Knowledge and Improving Skills with a Four-Hour Workshop Using Standardized Patients. Acad Med. 2003;78:S24-S26.

MT Ramsbottom-Lucier, TS Caudill, Teaching Residents in an Ambulatory Setting: Introducing the Concepts of Managed Care in a Fee-For-Service Clinic. Academic Medicine. 1997; 72(5): 447-448.

DS Kwolek, J Popham, TS Caudill. The VA Women's Health Center as an Ambulatory Training Site. Academic Medicine. 1998; 73(5): 606.

Haist SA, Griffith CH, Hoellein AR, Talente G, Montgomery T, Wilson JF. Improving Student's HIV Counseling and Sexual History Taking with an Interactive Workshop Using Standardized Patients. J Gen Intern Med. 2004; 19: 549-553.

Feddock CA, Hoellein AR, Griffith CH, Wilson JF, Lineberry MJ, Haist SA. Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Knowledge and Clinical Skills through an Adolescent Medicine Workshop. Accepted, Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med., pending publication.

Medical Student Education

Griffith CH, Georgesen JG, Wilson JF. Specialty Choice of Students who Actually Have a Choice: the Influence of Excellent Clinical Teachers. Acad Med. 2000; 75: 278-282

Griffith CH, Georgesen JG, Wilson JF. Six-Year Documentation of the Association of Excellent Clinical Teaching and Better Student Examination Performance. Acad Med. 2000; 75: S62-S64.

Griffith CH, Evidence-based Educational Practice: The Case for Faculty Development in Teaching. Am J Med. 2000; 109: 749-752.

Rudy DW, Griffith CH. Expanding the Goals of an Early Clinical Experience for First-Year Medical Students. Med Educ. 2000; 34: 954-955.

Griffith CH, Wilson JF. The Loss of Student Idealism in the Third-Year Medicine Clerkship. Evaluation and the Health Professions. 2001; 24: 61-71.

Rudy DW, Fefjar MC, Griffith CH, Wilson JF. Self and Peer Assessment in a First-Year Communication and Interviewing Course. Eval & the Health Professions. 2001; 24: 436-445.

Rudy DW, Elam CL, Griffith CH. Developing a Stage-Appropriate Professionalism Curriculum. Acad Med. 2001 76: 503.

Rudy DW, Haist SA, Griffith CH. Depression Curriculum for Students in a Primary Care Internal Medicine Clerkship. Acad Med. 2001; 76: 535.

Hemmer PA, Griffith CH, Fagan MJ, Elnicki DM. The Internal Medicine Clerkship in the Clinical Education of Medical Students. Am J Med. 2003; 115:423-427.