Saumil Mahendra Chudgar | Scholars@Duke

Saumil Mahendra Chudgar
Associate Professor of Medicine

Medical Education
Assessment of Clinical Skills
Clinical Reasoning
Simulation
Curriculum Development

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine 2018

Contact Information

DUMC Box 3534, Durham, NC 27710
Duke Hospital North Room 8277A, DUMC 3534, Durham, NC 27710
saumil.chudgar@duke.edu (919) 681-8263

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- M.S., University of New England 2013
- Medical Resident, Medicine, Duke University 2005 - 2008
- M.D., Duke University 2005
Duke Appointment History
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine 2011 - 2018
- Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine 2008 - 2011
Expertise
Subject Headings
Research
Selected Grants
- Evaluation of Virtual Interactive Platform in Enhancing Diagnostic Reasoning and Improving Diagnostic Accuracy awarded by American Medical Association Foundation 2018 - 2019
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Chang, LL, Nagler, A, Rudd, M, Grochowski, CO, Buckley, EG, Chudgar, SM, and Engle, DL. "Is it a match? a novel method of evaluating medical school success." Medical Education Online 23, no. 1 (December 2018): 1432231-null. Full Text
  - Roberts, JK, Chudgar, SM, Engle, D, McClain, EK, Jakoi, E, Berkoben, M, and Lehrich, RW. "Digital chalk-talk videos improve knowledge and satisfaction in renal physiology." Advances in Physiology Education 42, no. 1 (March 2018): 146-151. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Holcomb, ZE, and Chudgar, SM. "See one, do one, teach…a lifetime." The Clinical Teacher 15, no. 1 (February 2018): 73-75. Full Text
  - Elnicki, DM, Aiyer, MK, Cannarozzi, ML, Carbo, A, Chelminski, PR, Chheda, SG, Chudgar, SM, Harrell, HE, Hood, LC, Horn, M, Johl, K, Kane, GC, McNeill, DB, Muntz, MD, Pereira, AG, Stewart, E, Tarantino, H, and Vu, TR. "An Entrustable Professional Activity (EPA)-Based Framework to Prepare Fourth-Year Medical Students for Internal Medicine Careers." Journal of general internal medicine 32, no. 11 (November 2017): 1255-1260. Full Text
  - Clay, AS, Chudgar, SM, Turner, KM, Vaughn, J, Knudsen, NW, Farnan, JM, Arora, VM, and Molloy, MA. "How Prepared Are Medical and Nursing Students to Identify Common Hazards in the Intensive Care Unit?." Annals of the American Thoracic Society 14, no. 4 (April 2017): 543-549. Full Text
  - Clay, AS, Ming, DY, Knudsen, NW, Engle, DL, Grochowski, CO, Andolsek, KM, and Chudgar, SM. "CaPOW! Using Problem Sets in a Capstone Course to Improve Fourth-Year Medical Students' Confidence in Self-Directed Learning." Academic Medicine 92, no. 3 (March 2017): 380-384. Full Text
  - Stevenson, E, Chudgar, SM, Turner, K, Molloy, M, Phillips, B, Engle, DL, and Clay, AS. "How We Engage Graduating Professional Students in Interprofessional Patient Safety." Nursing Forum 51, no. 4 (October 2016): 233-237. Full Text
  - Pereira, AG, Chelminski, PR, Chheda, SG, Angus, SV, Becker, J, Chudgar, SM, Levine, MA, Willet, LR, Vu, TR, and Medical Student to Resident Interface Committee Workgroup on the Interview Season, . "Application Inflation for Internal Medicine Applicants in the Match: Drivers, Consequences, and Potential Solutions." The American journal of medicine 129, no. 8 (August 2016): 885-891. Full Text
  - Chudgar, SM, Engle, DL, Grochowski, CO, and Gagliardi, JP. "Teaching crucial skills: An electrocardiogram teaching module for medical students." Journal of electrocardiology 49, no. 4 (July 2016): 490-495. Full Text
  - Nagler, A, Engle, DL, Rudd, M, Chudgar, SM, Weinerth, JL, Kuhn, CM, Buckley, E, and Grochowski, CO. "Mystery behind the match: an undergraduate medical education-graduate medical education collaborative approach to understanding match goals and outcomes." Medical education online 21 (January 2016): 32235-. Full Text
  - Whicker, SA, Engle, DL, Chudgar, S, DeMeo, S, Bean, SM, Narayan, AP, Grochowski, CO, and Nagler, A. "A meaningful MESS (Medical Education Scholarship Support)." Medical education online 21 (January 2016): 32458-. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Clay, AS, Andolsek, K, Grochowski, CO, Engle, DL, and Chudgar, SM. "Using Transitional Year Milestones to Assess Graduating Medical Students' Skills During a Capstone Course." Journal of Graduate Medical Education 7, no. 4 (December 2015): 658-662. Full Text
  - Lantos, PM, Branda, JA, Boggan, JC, Chudgar, SM, Wilson, EA, Ruffin, F, Fowler, V, Auwaerter, PG, and Nigrovic, LE. "Poor Positive Predictive Value of Lyme Disease Serologic Testing in an Area of Low Disease Incidence." Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 61, no. 9 (November 2015): 1374-1380. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Elnicki, DM, Gallagher, S, Willett, L, Kane, G, Muntz, M, Henry, D, Cannarozzi, M, Stewart, E, Harrell, H, Aiyer, M, Salvit, C, Chudgar, S, Vu, R, and Clerkship Directors in Internal MedicineAssociation of Program Directors in Internal Medicine Committee on Transition to Internship, . "Course Offerings in the Fourth Year of Medical School: How U.S. Medical Schools Are Preparing Students for Internship." Academic Medicine 90, no. 10 (October 2015): 1324-1330. Full Text
  - Agarwal, A, Chang, DS, Selim, MA, Penrose, CT, Chudgar, SM, and Cardones, AR. "Pinch Purpura: A Cutaneous Manifestation of Systemic Amyloidosis." The American Journal of Medicine 128, no. 9 (September 2015): e3-e4. (Letter) Full Text
  - Bailey, ML, Chudgar, SM, Engle, DL, Moon, SD, Grochowski, CO, and Clay, AS. "The Impact of a Mandatory Immersion Curriculum in Integrative Medicine for Graduating Medical Students." Explore (New York, N.Y.) 11, no. 5 (September 2015): 394-400. Full Text
  - Nagler, A, Chudgar, SM, Rudd, M, Whicker, SA, Gagliardi, JP, Narayan, A, Heflin, MT, Gordon, DC, and Andolsek, KM. "GME Concentrations: A Collaborative Interdisciplinary Approach to Learner-Driven Education." Journal of graduate medical education 7, no. 3 (September 2015): 422-429. Full Text
  - Vu, TR, Angus, SV, Aronowitz, PB, Harrell, HE, Levine, MA, Carbo, A, Whelton, S, Ferris, A, Appelbaum, JS, McNeill, DB, Ismail, NJ, Elnicki, DM, and CDIM-APDIM Committee on Transitions to Internship (CACTI) Group, . "The Internal Medicine Subinternship--Now More Important than Ever: A Joint CDIM-APDIM Position Paper." Journal of General Internal Medicine 30, no. 9 (September 2015): 1369-1375. Full Text
  - Clay, AS, Ross, E, Chudgar, SM, Grochowski, CO, Tulsky, JA, and Shapiro, D. "The emotions of graduating medical students about prior patient care experiences." Patient Education and Counseling 98, no. 3 (March 2015): 344-349. Full Text
  - Shatila, W, Tsipis, N, Eisenberg, A, Cardona, DM, and Chudgar, SM. "Negative biopsies, deadly disease: metastatic angiosarcoma." The American journal of medicine 127, no. 8 (August 2014): e5-e6. (Letter) Full Text
  - Turner, KM, Chudgar, SM, Engle, D, Molloy, MA, Phillips, BC, Stevenson, EL, and Clay, AS. "It Takes a Village”: An Interprofessional Patient Safety Experience for Nursing and Medical Students." Medical Science Educator 23, no. 3 (October 1, 2013): 449-456. Full Text
  - Biggs, HM, Chudgar, SM, Pfeiffer, CD, Rice, KR, Zaas, AK, and Wolfe, CR. "Disseminated Mycobacterium immunogenum infection presenting with septic shock and skin lesions in a renal transplant recipient." Transplant Infectious Disease : an Official Journal of the Transplantation Society 14, no. 4 (August 2012): 415-421. Full Text
  - Person, AK, Chudgar, SM, Norton, BL, Tong, BC, and Stout, JE. "Aspergillus niger: an unusual cause of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis." Journal of Medical Microbiology 59, no. Pt 7 (July 2010): 834-838. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Promes, SB, Chudgar, SM, Grochowski, CO, Shayne, P, Isenhour, J, Glickman, SW, and Cairns, CB. "Gaps in procedural experience and competency in medical school graduates." Acad Emerg Med 16 Suppl 2 (December 2009): S58-S62. Full Text Link to Item
  - Chudgar, SM, Cox, CE, Que, LG, Andolsek, K, Knudsen, NW, and Clay, AS. "Current teaching and evaluation methods in critical care medicine: has the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education affected how we practice and teach in the intensive care unit?." Crit Care Med 37, no. 1 (January 2009): 49-60. Full Text Link to Item
  - Chudgar, SM, Deng, P, Maddala, R, Epstein, DL, and Rao, PV. "Regulation of connective tissue growth factor expression in the aqueous humor outflow pathway." Molecular Vision 12 (September 30, 2006): 1117-1126.
  - Clay, A, Ross, E, Chudgar, S, Grochowski, C, and Shapiro, D. "Physicians’ Letters to their Patients: A Reflection Exercise for Graduating Medical Students(Published online)." Mededportal Publications . Full Text
  - Clay, A, Ross, E, Knudsen, N, Chudgar, S, Engle, D, and Grochowski, C. "A Breaking Bad News Exercise to Assess Student Competence Prior to Graduation(Published online)." Mededportal Publications . Full Text
  - Kuhn, C, Chudgar, S, Engle, D, von Isenburg, M, Whicker, S, Andolsek, K, and Nagler, A. "Faculty Development EXPRESS: Tools for Time-Challenged Faculty(Published online)." Mededportal Publications . Full Text
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Education, Training, & Certifications

Duke Appointment History

Subject Headings

Selected Grants

Selected Publications

Academic Articles

Recent Courses