Pranav Shah, MD, MSEd, was a clinical instructor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Academic Hospitalist Scholar Program. During his three years, he worked at both the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and received his Master’s Degree of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education with a focus on medical education. His interests included undergraduate and graduate medical education, diagnostic errors, and clinical reasoning. To develop this niche, he completed a 6-week course in teaching clinical reasoning (#TeachDx) from the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) and took part in multiple, multi-centered published studies with the Hospital Medicine Reengineering Network (HOMERuN) looking at diagnostic errors nationwide.
Dr. Shah earned his medical degree from Michigan State University and completed his Internal Medicine residency at Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University. Since completing the Academic Hospitalist Scholar Program, Dr. Shah has taken an Assistant Professor position at the Medical University of South Carolina where he continues to work with integrating clinical reasoning education into undergraduate medical school curriculum.