Somnath Mookherjee, MD | Division of General Internal Medicine

Associate Professor

Medicine

Director, Academic Hospitalist Fellowship

Director, GIM Faculty Development Program

Cascade College Faculty

UWMC – Interim Inpatient Clinical Teaching Champion

Faculty Information

Biography

Education & Training:

University of Washington, School of Medicine

Seattle, WA

1999–2004

Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine, Categorical Track

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

2004–2007

Academic Hospitalist Fellowship

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

2008–2009

Honors:

Seafirst Foundation Scholar Excellence Award

1992

Robert C. Byrd Memorial Scholarship

1992

University of Washington Undergraduate Scholar’s Award

1992–1993

Herschel and Carol Roman Undergraduate Research Program Stipend

1996

Mary Gates Endowment for Student’s Research Training Fellowship

1997

Fogarty International Program in Mali, Malaria Research Training Fellowship

2000

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Research Training Fellowship

2001

Contact

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Research & Clinical Interests

Research Interests:

Faculty development
Mentorship
Clinical teaching

Publications

My NCBI:

Publications:

Mookherjee S, Vidyarthi AR, Ranji SR, Maselli J, Wachter RM, Baron RB. Potential unintended consequences due to medicare's "no pay for errors rule"? A randomized controlled trial of an educational intervention with internal medicine residents. J Gen Intern Med; 2010 Oct; 25(10):1097–101.
Mookherjee S, Chou CL. Bedside Teaching of Clinical Reasoning and Evidence-Based Physical Examination. Medical Education. 2011 May; 45 (5): 519.
Mookherjee S, Pheatt L, Ranji SR, Chou CL. Physical Examination Education in Graduate Medical Education – A Systematic Review of the Literature. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2013:1–10. DOI: 10.1007/s11606-013-2380-x.
Mookherjee S, Monash B, Wentworth KL, Sharpe BA. Faculty development for hospitalists: Structured peer observation of teaching. J Hosp Med. 2014 Apr;9(4):244–50. doi: 10.1002/jhm.2151. Epub 2014 Jan 20.
Kulkarni HS, Chey WD, Mookherjee S, Saint S, Bump GM. Taking the detour. J Hosp Med. 2015 Oct;10(10):686–90. doi: 10.1002/jhm.2424. Epub 2015 Jul 14.
Mookherjee S, Hunt S, Chou CL. Twelve tips for teaching evidence-based physical examination. Med Teach. 2015;37(6):543–50. doi: 10.3109/0142159X.2014.959908. Epub 2014 Oct 1.