Medical Education Grand Rounds

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

"Considerations in Physical ExaminationTeaching and Learning: the Radial Pulse"

Eugene C. Corbett, Jr., M.D., M.A.C.P.

Bernard B. & Anne L. Brodie Teaching Professor Emeritus of Medicine

Professor of Nursing

Retired Dean for Clinical Skills Education

The University of Virginia

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Dr. Corbett completed medical school at the University of Chicago in 1970. After a general surgery internship at SUNY Upstate in Syracuse, NY, he entered general practice in rural Virginia (1971-73). From 1973-75, he completed an Internal Medicine residency at Baltimore City Hospital while also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at Johns Hopkins University.  From 1975 to 1984 he returned to rural general practice in Virginia, first at a community health center and then for five years in rural private practice. Following an academic sabbatical year at Stanford University (1984-85), Dr. Corbett joined the Division of General Medicine, Geriatrics & Palliative Care at the University of Virginia. He has since remained on the full time faculty there. During 2002-03, he spent a sabbatical year at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in Washington DC as a Robert Petersdorf Scholar-in-Residence, working on a national consensus project involving improvement in the clinical performance education curriculum for medical students. He chaired the AAMC Task Force on the Clinical Skills Education of Students 2003-08 resulting in three related monographs. He retired to Professor Emeritus status July, 2012, and continues to teach, mentor and participate in selected clinical and medical education activities. 

He is a general internist with practice interest in general and ambulatory medicine, geriatrics, nutrition and diabetes. His academic interests include medical education, primary care training, medical student clinical skills education, clinical teaching skills, curriculum and faculty development, and nursing student education in pathophysiology. He has served on many committees including the Curriculum Committee of the School of Medicine. He has led numerous medical education innovations at the University of Virginia. He was a clerkship director from 1994 to 2003, teaches in first, second and third year courses and clerkships, and offers an advanced physical diagnosis elective for senior students and internal medicine residents. He also teaches and mentors internal medicine residents and fellows. He has co-directed and teaches in the undergraduate and postgraduate pathophysiology courses in the School of Nursing since 1987. He served as Assistant Dean for Clinical Skills Education in the School of Medicine from 2009-12.

Dr. Corbett has been a member of the Stanford Faculty Development Program since 1987, and the National GIMGEL faculty development project of the Association of Professors of Medicine (2000-02). He also participates annually as visiting faculty for the Harvard-Macy Institute Program for Physician and Healthcare Educators (2000-current). He has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching including the UVa Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Faculty Award in 2001, and recognitions by many graduation classes in both the Schools of Nursing and Medicine including the Robley Dunglison Award in 2003. In 2005 he received a University of Virginia All-University Teaching Award. In 2006 he received the Louis Pangaro Educational Program Development Award from the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine national organization, the national Alpha Omega Alpha – AAMC Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award in 2009, and the Jane F. DesForges Distinguished Teacher Award and Mastership from the American College of Physicians in 2012. He was elected by nursing and medical students to the UVa Raven Society in 2012.

He has been supported in his work by the Bernard B. & Anne L. Brodie Chair Endowment in the UVa School of Medicine since 1998 as well as by a number of federally funded (HRSA) grants.  Dr. Corbett has maintained an active clinical practice (1971-2012) and continues to serve in leadership positions in a number of professional organizations including the Accreditation Committee of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine. He has published a number of articles and book chapters particularly in medical education.

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Sponsored by Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Department of Office of Teaching and Learning in Medicine.