Division of General Internal Medicine
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About the chair
Jeffrey T. Kushinka, M.D.,
Interim Division Chair
Division of General Medicine
Jeffrey T. Kushinka, M.D., attended Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and graduated in 2002. He joined the Division of General Internal Medicine as a faculty member in 2006, after completing his Internal Medicine residency in 2005 and serving as a Chief Medical Resident in the 2005-2006 academic year.
He is a clinician-educator whose work has focused on active learning styles (e.g. team-based learning) as well as medical simulation. He also has expertise in teaching evidence-based medicine to both students and residents, and for multiple consecutive years he has been a tutor at Duke University’s well-known Evidence-Based Medicine workshop.
In addition to his role as Interim Chair of the Division, Dr. Kushinka’s other main administrative role is as the Clerkship Director for the School of Medicine’s M3 Internal Medicine clerkship. He is also a Core Educator for the Internal Medicine Residency Program and a member of the Internal Medicine Clinical Competency Committee, which monitors resident performance and supports resident development. Clinically Dr. Kushinka works in both the inpatient and outpatient settings, with time spent as an attending physician for the inpatient housestaff teams, as an attending physician in the resident clinic, and as a physician in the faculty group practice.
About the Division of General Internal Medicine
The Division of General Internal Medicine is committed to excellence in clinical patient care, teaching and scholarship. The division is home to about 90 highly talented faculty members.
Contact information
Interim Division Chair
Jeffrey T. Kushinka, M.D.
P.O. Box 980102
Richmond, Virginia 23298-0102
Phone: (804) 828-5323
E-mail: jkushinka@mcvh-vcu.edu
Division Administrator
Wendy Walker
P.O. Box 980102
Richmond, Virginia 23298-0102
Phone: (804) 828-5323
E-mail: wwalker2@mcvh-vcu.edu
Clinic Information (patient appointment information only)
Academic Hospitalist: (804) 828-3144
Ambulatory Care Center Faculty Practice: (804) 828-9357
Ambulatory Care Center Resident Practice: (804) 828-8786
Women’s Health at Stony Point: (804) 560-8950
McGuire VA Medical Center Primary Care: (804) 675-5427
The Division of General Internal Medicine comprises of nine sections: Community Medicine |Geriatric Medicine | Student Health
Women’s Health | Hospitalist Medicine | Addiction Medicine
Ambulatory General Internists | Medical Educators | Researchers described on a separate webpage.
Clinical areas
Clinical service sites for division faculty members include:
- Ambulatory Care Center (primary care medicine and geriatrics);
- Stony Point Women’s Health Center; House Calls;
- General Medicine Consults on inpatient units at the VCU Medical Center;
- the large inpatient academic hospitalist service at the VCU Medical Center.
Research areas
Division members engage in research and scholarship in diverse areas including
- clinical decision-making in cancer care;
- community-based cancer screening and awareness programs;
- undergraduate medical education;
- graduate medical education;
- sickle cell disease; and
- substance abuse.
Division members have been funded by the American Cancer Society, the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Virginia Department of Health, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, plus grants from foundations and industry.
Geriatrics Program Website