Deepthiman K. Gowda, MD

Specialties:
Internal Medicine

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Overview

Deepthiman Gowda is a general internist and works in the Section of Hospital Medicine. He is the Course Director of Foundations of Clinical Medicine Tutorials, Chair of the Fundamentals Curriculum Committee (first 18 months of the medical school curriculum), and Director of the Scholarly Project Track in Medical Education at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the Director of Clinical Practice in the Program in Narrative Medicine. At the medical school, Dr. Gowda serves on the Admissions Committee and has served as Chair of the Task Force for a Bias-Free Curriculum and the first campus-wide Task-Force for Interprofessional Education. Dr. Gowda is a Macy Foundation Faculty Scholar (2015-2017).
Dr. Gowda has received the Bohmfalk Award for preclinical education, the Ewig Award for clinical teaching, and the Ambulatory Medicine Teacher of the Year Award. He is a member of the Virginia Apgar Teaching Academy and chairs the Apgar Medical Education Scholarship Group (AMES). He serves as a member of the New York City Board of Health and as the National Co-Chair for the USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills Test Development Committee. His scholarship has focused on narrative medicine, clinical skills training, and interprofessional education and practice.

Academic Appointments

Associate in Medicine at CUMC

Administrative Titles

Course Director, Foundations of Clinical Medicine Tutorials
Chair, Fundamentals (Pre-clerkship Curriculum) Curriculum Committee
Director, Scholarly Project Track in Medical Education
Director of Clinical Practice, Program in Narrative Medicine

Hospital Affiliations

NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Gender

Male

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New and Existing Patients: (212) 305-6262

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Location(s)

CUIMC/Milstein Hospital Building
177 Ft. Washington Avenue

New York, NY 10032



Phone: 212-305-6262



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Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center

Board Certifications

Internal Medicine

Honors & Awards

Bohmfalk Award for preclinical education
Ewig Award for clinical teaching
Ambulatory Medicine Teacher of the Year Award
Virginia Apgar Teaching Academy

Research

Research Interests

Medical Education (including clinical skills and interprofessional education) and Narrative Medicine

Selected Publications

Articles
Gowda D, Dubroff R, Swan-Sein A., Capello C. Art as Sanctuary: A Four-Year Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Visual Art Course Addressing Uncertainty Through Reflection. Accepted to Academic Medicine, 2019
Uchida T, Gowda D, et al. Approaches to Teaching the Physical Exam to Pre-Clerkship Medical Students: Results of a National Survey Accepted to Academic Medicine, 2019
Cao, E., & Gowda, D. Collaborative songwriting for health sciences interprofessional service learning. Medical education, 52(5), 550-550, 2018
Gowda, D. Listen in Silence: Narrative Medicine with Interprofessional Teams. Collaborative Healthcare - Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Evaluation, 2017, 4-5
Tucker M, Balmer D, Gowda D. Impact of Explicit, Implicit, and Extra Curricula on Students' Learning of the History and Physical Examination MedEdPublish, 2017 6, [3], 22 doi:https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2017.000136
Uchida, T., Achike, F. I., Blood, A. D., Boyle, M., Farnan, J. M., Gowda, D., ... & Silvestri, R. (2018). Resources Used to Teach the Physical Exam to Preclerkship Medical Students: Results of a National Survey. Academic Medicine, 93(5), 736-741.
Gowda, D., Blatt, B., Fink, M. J., Kosowicz, L. Y., Baecker, A., & Silvestri, R. C. (2014). A core physical exam for medical students: results of a national survey. Academic Medicine, 89(3), 436-442.
Chapters
Gowda D, Curran T, Balmer D. Using a Mixed Methods Approach to Evaluating Programs in Health Humanities. In Research Methods in Health Humanities Eds. Klugman C and Lamb E. New York, NY: Oxford Univ Press, publication planned for late 2018
Gowda D. Taking Time to Truly Listen to our Patients. In Distracted Doctoring: Returning to Patient-Centered Care in the Digital Age. Ed. P Papadakos and S Bertman. New York, NY: Springer, 2017