Pinky Jha, MD Candidate for Midwest SGIM Secretary/Treasurer-elect PERSONAL STATEMENT Born and brought up in the Himalayan country of Nepal I did my medical school from Tribhuvan university, Kathmandu, Nepal and was awarded with scholarship to complete the medical education followed by Samjhana memorial Gold medal for excellence in medical education. I received scholarship from Swedish institute to complete Masters in Public Health from International school of Public health, Umea university, Sweden. I did internal medicine residency from St Francis Hospital, Evanston, IL (affiliated to UIC). After completing residency I did chief residency at St Francis hospital and had an opportunity to take administrative and educational role. I joined MCW as assistant Professor in 2009 and have been providing patient care and medical education for last 8 years. I am actively involved in teaching and mentoring medical students and internal medicine residents. My philosophy of teaching consists of, not only instructing students and residents of the basics of medicine, but also mentoring them in order to help them develop at both a personal and a professional level. In addition to teaching clinical skills during inpatient rotations, I also emphasize on the importance of professionalism, teamwork and providing students some level of autonomy along with good supervision. I provide students the opportunity to become involved in direct patient care and decision making while simultaneously making myself available to provide answers to any of their questions. Besides clinical teaching in hospitalist and house staff teams i do core teaching sessions that includes facilitating case based discussion for medical students, bench to bedside course, noon conference and morbidity and mortality conferences.My teaching evaluations for medical students and residents are consistently above department average. My medical students evaluation are 4.6-4.9/5. I was awarded in MCW’s Outstanding Medical Student Teachers award 2009/2010 and 2013/2014. I also got nominated for Edward J Lennon award for clinical Teaching this year from Medical college of Wisconsin. I have provided mentoring and editorial assistance to more than 60 medical students and residents resulting in more than 75 poster and oral presentations in various National and regional ACP,SGIM and SHM meetings.I have mentored more than 22 medical students and 18 medicine residents in preparing manuscript and publishing in peer reviewed and non peer reviewed journals like Journal of case reports, consultant 360,Journal of General internal Medicine,ACP hospitalist and SGIM forum. I am also involved in development of curriculum and courses for medical students.I conducted a workshop at Midwest Society of General Internal
Pinky Jha, MD Candidate for Midwest SGIM Secretary/Treasurer-elect PERSONAL STATEMENT Born and brought up in the Himalayan country of Nepal I did my medical school from Tribhuvan university, Kathmandu, Nepal and was awarded with scholarship to complete the medical education followed by Samjhana memorial Gold medal for excellence in medical education. I received scholarship from Swedish institute to complete Masters in Public Health from International school of Public health, Umea university, Sweden. I did internal medicine residency from St Francis Hospital, Evanston, IL (affiliated to UIC). After completing residency I did chief residency at St Francis hospital and had an opportunity to take administrative and educational role. I joined MCW as assistant Professor in 2009 and have been providing patient care and medical education for last 8 years. I am actively involved in teaching and mentoring medical students and internal medicine residents. My philosophy of teaching consists of, not only instructing students and residents of the basics of medicine, but also mentoring them in order to help them develop at both a personal and a professional level. In addition to teaching clinical skills during inpatient rotations, I also emphasize on the importance of professionalism, teamwork and providing students some level of autonomy along with good supervision. I provide students the opportunity to become involved in direct patient care and decision making while simultaneously making myself available to provide answers to any of their questions. Besides clinical teaching in hospitalist and house staff teams i do core teaching sessions that includes facilitating case based discussion for medical students, bench to bedside course, noon conference and morbidity and mortality conferences.My teaching evaluations for medical students and residents are consistently above department average. My medical students evaluation are 4.6-4.9/5. I was awarded MCW’s Outstanding Medical Student Teachers award in 2009/2010 and 2013/2014. I also got nominated for Edward J Lennon award for clinical Teaching this year from Medical college of Wisconsin. I have provided mentoring and editorial assistance to more than 60 medical students and residents resulting in more than 75 poster and oral presentations in various National and regional ACP,SGIM and SHM meetings.I have mentored more than 22 medical students and 18 medicine residents in preparing manuscript and publishing in peer reviewed and non peer reviewed journals like Journal of case reports, consultant 360,Journal of General internal Medicine,ACP hospitalist and SGIM forum. I am also involved in development of curriculum and courses for medical students.I conducted a workshop at Midwest Society of General Internal
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