The Master Clinician Project

PODCAST

The Master Clinician Project podcast has a singular and specific focus: trying to learn from the best clinicians about how we can all improve our abilities as health care providers. We create a platform for masterful clinicians to shine their light on even more medical trainees and practicing physicians out there, who view clinical excellence as an important career goal.

INSPIRATION

Our 2018 qualitative research study that inspired this channel - An Inquiry into the Early Careers of Master Clinicians - can be found here. As a follow-up to this study, we are now conducting a nationwide study of peer-nominated master clinicians across US academic medical centers.

HOST

Vivek Krishna Murthy is a clinical fellow in rheumatology at the University of California San Francisco. He completed his B.A. in Public Health Studies at Johns Hopkins University and an M.Sc. in Pharmacology at the University of Oxford. He earned his M.D. degree from the New York University School of Medicine and completed internal medicine residency at the University of California San Francisco. He then practiced as a clinician educator and hospitalist at the Johns Hopkins Hospital for 4 years, before returning to California for fellowship training.

His professional interests include medical education, the study of diagnostic expertise, applying cognitive expertise research to medical training, and clinical problem solving.