Excelling in the Clinic

Clifford D. Packer, MD, FACP is a clinician-educator at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center and professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is a long time medicine clerkship director and developed a case reporting curriculum with his students that has produced numerous published case reports and abstracts over the past ten years. He is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and two books, Writing Case Reports: A Practical Guide from Conception through Publication (Springer, 2017) with co-authors Gabrielle Berger and Somnath Mookherjee, and Presenting Your Case: A Concise Guide for Medical Students (Springer, 2019). He has a broad range of interests in medical education, including high-value care, service-learning, and the medical humanities in addition to his scholarly work with case reports. He is a member of the CDIM Survey and Scholarship Committee and the Ohio ACP Student and Resident Abstract Committees, andwas appointed Chair of the Committee on Medical Education at CWRU School of Medicine in 2018. He received the Evelyn V. Hess Master Teacher Award from the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Physicians in 2017, and was elected as a faculty member to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 2011.

• The Importance of Primary Care.- Medical Education in the Outpatient Clinic: Benefits and Barriers.- Clinic Settings, Schedules, and Structures.- COVID-19 and the Rapid Rise of Telemedicine.- Preparing to See the Patient.- The Patient-Centered Interview.- The Physical Exam.- The Concise Oral Case Presentation.- Discussing the Case.- Writing a Clinic Note.- Service-Learning Clinics.- Careers in Primary Care